Chapters 3&4 assessment

1. Get anti-Virus software, Dumper internet explorer and use firefox, use a fire wall to block things that are not authorized access to your computer.
2. Automatically bidding after you get out bid. Ebay will automatically bid for you if you are out bid on something you are trying to purchase.
3. Sniping is entering your bid at the last second. This is a technique used so other bidders do not have enough time to out bid you.
4. The police can find the buyer of a stolen product by tracing it through the company then through the seller and finally coming to you. To avoid this never make a payment using wire transfer.
5. It is a different credit card number your bank gives you online so you can shop online. If a hacker tries to use the credit card they will get denied/

Chapter one assessment

1. Domain names are human readable internet addresses. The IP address is the address for each computer when connected to the internet. The IP address lets the network know where the computer is. The domain name remembers the IP address.
2. ICANN overseas the domain name system.
3. Write about what you are interested in. Don’t worry about being the first person to post something. Limit the links you have in an entry.
4. RSS is a way to subscribe to blogs. The book recommends feed reader or aggregator. I have never used RSS.
5. Choose a name for your podcast. Record your podcast. Add the audio. Publicize your podcast. I have never listened to podcast.

Blog assessment

1. Get Flickr, select “All photos”, then click the directory and store the photos and download them.

2. Go to download.com and get a recovery utility. The photo gets put in a different space on the memory card and eventually gets overwritten by another photo.

3. Go the Freesound Project website. I found an ambiance sound effect, male scream and a heart monitor sound effect.

4. They have converted 20,000 books. The top five ebooks are; The Outline of Science, Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Illustrated History of Furniture.

5. Using Google is a good site to use when searching for things. If you enter what you are looking for in quotation marks then you will narrows down the sites that you may be interested in. You can also use synonyms, excluding words or wild cards.

6. Cool Previews, Wikilook and WebMynd are three extensions that I never knew about before.