The Internet for dummies
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From the Book - 14th edition.
What's so great about the Internet
Is the internet safe? Viruses, spyware, spam, and other yucky stuff
Kids and the internet
Assembling your gear and climbing on the net
Setting up your own network or Wi-Fi hotspot
Welcome to the wild, wonderful, wacky web
Taking your browser for a spin
It's in the mail: sending and receiving email
Putting your mail in its place
Getting social with Facebook and Goggle+
Tweeting abour your life
Typing and talking online
Needles and haystacks: finding almost everything
Music and video on the web
More shopping, less dropping
Banking, bill paying, and investing online
Making a splash online
Blogging: the world reads your diary
Ten fun things you can do online
Ten worthwhile things to do online.
From the Book - Thirteenth edition.
Welcome to the Internet
Internet, here I come!
Hanging out with friends online
The web is full of cool stuff
Putting your own stuff on the net
The part of tens.
From the Book - 7th ed.
Feedback, Please
Welcome to the Internet
What Is the Net? What Is the Web?
So What's All the Hoopla?
A Few Real-Life Stories
Why Is This Medium Different from Any Other Medium?
Anybody can access it
It's politically, socially, and religiously correct
The Net advantage
Electronic Commerce
Security in general
Security in specific
Some Thoughts about Safety and Privacy
Safety first
Protect your privacy
The Internet at Home, at Work, at School, at Play
At Home with the Internet
The Internet at Work
Intranets and what they're good for
Extra, extra net, net net
A portal in any storm
At the hub or out on a limb?
The Internet at School
The Internet at Play
The Net, Your Kids, and You
Stop Making Sense
What's in it for us?
The Internet for young children
The Internet for K-12
College and the Net
When the Net is college
Finding a job by using the Net
Of Paramount Concern
Hey, Mom, what's on?
Sell, sell, sell!
Who's there?
Parental Guidance Required
Setting limits
Rating the ratings
Consumer's choice
Software sentries
Internet Resources for Kids
Malling lists for parents and kids
Web sites for kids
Help for parents of kids with problems
The Internet in Schools
Contractually speaking
Real education
Internet, Here I Come!
Picking Your Internet Service
Do You Have a Computer?
Yup! I got this old beige box in the closet
Yup! Just got a brand new Thunderstick 2002
No, but I can't wait to buy one
No way! I even had to borrow this book!
Modems, Ho!
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Big ol' online services
ISPs: The Internet, the whole Internet, and nothing but the Internet
Internet on the run
Couch potatoes, ho! It's WebTV!
Faster Connections: The Beauty of Bandwidth
Cable connections
Connecting with DSL
Who's on first?
ISDN and other four-letter words
Picking an ISP
How to find a local service provider
Signing up
Back to Software
Online and On Your Way
The Real Thing: An ISP Account
You provide the programs
Cool programs you can use
Where does all this software come from?
Getting Connected to Your Internet Account
The big picture, signup-wise
Many mysterious numbers
A home for your programs
Connecting, for Windows 98 Users
Connecting, for Windows 95 Users
Connecting, for Windows 3.1 Users
Connecting, for Mac Users
Connecting to America Online
Signing up for America Online
Setting up your AOL account
GO America!
I'm outta here!
I Want My WebTV!
Getting started with WebTV
Full power, Scotty!
Sign in, Please
Who are you, anyway?
How to get off the Internet
Web Mania
Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web
Name That Page
Browsing Off
Surfing with Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Opera
Getting around
Backward, ho!
All over the map
Going places
Where to start?
This page looks funny
Get me outta here
Getting and Installing Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, or Opera
Getting the package
We're home
let's go
Upgrade magic
Life with Lynx
Wandering around
Leaving Lynx
Is that all there is?
Wrangling with the Web
Windows on the World
Wild window mania with Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
Dignified window mania with Opera
No windows at all with Lynx
Short attention span tips
My Favorite Things
Bookmarking with Netscape
Choosing favorites with Internet Explorer
Getting hot, hot, hot in Opera
Marking Lynx
Speeding Things Up
Where do we start?
Switching to ugly mode
Cold, hard cache
Getting the Big Picture
Filling in the Forms
Lower the Cone of Silence
Save Me!
Saving Lynx pages
Saving anything else in Lynx
The Dead-Tree Thing (Printing)
Getting Plugged In: Singing, Dancing, and Chatting with Your Browser
A parade of plug-ins
How to use plug-ins with your browser
Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net
Your Basic Search Strategy
Search-a-Roo
Yahoo-a-roo, king of the directories
Google-oogle and AltaVista-a-rista, our favorite indexes
Yahoo and more
We're from Your Browser, and We're Here to Help You
Netscape's Smart Browsing
Microsoft's Autosearch
More search magic
The Usual Suspects
Excite and WebCrawler
Infoseek and Go.com
HotBot
Lycos
Northern Light
Other Web guides
Finding Companies
Hoovering in
Ask EDGAR
Lots of other business directories
Finding People
In real life
On the Net
Yahoo People Search (Four-eleven)
American Directory Assistance
WhoWhere
Canada 411
Bigfoot
Mail, one more time
Getting the Goods
More Shopping, Less Dropping
Shopping Online: Pros and Cons
The Credit Card Question
Let's Go to the Store
Simple shopping
Fancy shopping
Up, Up, and Away
The general theory of airline tickets
More about online airlines
Pure Money
Mutual funds
Stockbrokers
Tracking your protfolio
Even More Places to Shop
Books and such
Clothes
Computers
Auctions and used stuff
Food
The Shopping Update
My First Home Page
Creating a Web Page
The big picture
Picking your pen
Pictures To Go
Picture formats
Where do pictures come from?
Linking to Other Pages
Good Page Design
Fonts and styles
Background images
Big images
Live and learn
Putting Your Page on the Web
Be Master of Your Domain
Open a Farm Stand on the Information Superhighway
Shout It Out!
Essential Internet
Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither
What's My Address?
The user name part
The domain name part
Putting it all together
My Mail Is Where?
Too Many E-Mail Programs
Four Popular E-Mail Programs
Sending Mail Is Easy
Sending mail with Eudora
The same idea, using Netscape Messenger
Sending mail with Outlook Express
Sending mail with Pine
Mail Coming Your Way
Reading mail with Eudora
Reading mail with Netscape
Reading mail with Outlook Express
Reading mail with Pine
A Few Words from the Etiquette Ladies
Flame off!
Smile!
How Private Is E-Mail?
To Whom Do I Write?
Putting Your Mail in Its Place
Deleting Mail
Back to You, Sam: Replying to Mail
Keeping Track of Your Friends
Netscape's address book
Eudora's address book
Outlook Express's address book
Hot Potatoes: Forwarding Mail
Filing with Eudora
Filing with Netscape
Filing with Outlook Express
Filing with Pine
Exotic Mail and Mail Attachments
Eudora attachments
Netscape attachments
Outlook Express attachments
Pine attachments
Hey, Mr.
Robot
Your Own Personal Mail Manager
Spam, Bacon, and Eggs
Why call it spam?
Why is it so bad?
What can I do?
I Think I've Got a Virus
Mail, Mail, the Gang's All Here
Are You Sure That This Isn't Junk Mail?
Getting On and Off Mailing Lists
Talking to a human being
LISTSERV, the studly computer's mail manager
Stupid LISTSERV tricks
Majordomo
An excellent choice, Sir
Stupid Majordomo tricks
ListProc
third-place list manager
Clicking on and off lists
Sending Messages to Mailing Lists
The Fine Points of Replying to Mailing-List Messages
Finding Interesting Lists
Instant Messages, for When a Minute Just Isn't Soon Enough
ICQ
Installing ICQ
Getting buddy-buddy
Flashing away
Chatting away
The other 999.999 billion ICQ features
AOL Instant Messenger
Setting up Instant Messenger
AIM for Internet users
AIM for AOL users
Buzz off
Dozens of Other Message and Paging Systems
Let's Get Together and Chat
Look Who's Chatting
Who are those guys?
Who am I?
Your First Chat Room
Online etiquette
Safety first
Chat abbreviations and smileys
Trouble city
Let's Chat
Chatting on AOL
Chatting via WebTV
Chatting on the Web
Chatting via IRC
Get Down in the MUDs
Using MUDs
Swiping Files from the Net
Getting Files over the Web
Getting the picture
Getting with the program
Getting other files
How FTP Works
Hello, this is anonymous
When is a file not a file?
Getting your FTP client
Your Web Browser Is an FTP Client, Too
The URL of FTP
Browsing with an FTP URL
Hard-Core FTP-ing By Using WS_FTP
Getting WS_FTP
Dialing for files
"It won't speak to me!"
Do you copy?
Hang up!
Connecting again
How to foul up your files in FTP
About Face!
Uploading with your browser
Uploading with WS_FTP
It's Not Just a File
It's Software
Decompressing and unzipping
Mac users say Stufflt
Running WinZip
Unzip it!
Zipped out?
Scanning for viruses
Installing the program you downloaded
Configuring the program
Where Is It?
AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong?
Hello, America Online
Using E-mail from AOL
"Do I have mail?"
Reading your mail
Saving a message on your PC
Composing a new message
Attaching a file to your message
Keeping an address book
"What if I get an attachment?"
Going Offline
Using AOL to Connect to the Net
Web Browsing from AOL
Starting the Web browser
Protecting your kids
Creating your own Web page
Grabbing Files from FTP Servers
Using AOL as an Internet Account
Using an Internet program
Doing Other Things
Tuning In with WebTV
On Your Mark, Get Set, Click
Getting E-Mail on Your WebTV
Reading your mail
Sending mail
Where's the Web in WebTV?
Chatting on WebTV
Ten Frequently Asked Questions
Ten Types of Files and What to Do with Them
Ten Ways to Find E-Mail Addresses
Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz.
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9780764506741
9781568846200
9781118967690
9781118096147
9780764503542
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