Blog Post 4

Chapter 2 is primarily about the Internet. First off, Internet services are services the Internet offers users. The largest is the World Wide Web, but others include blogs, email, file transfer, and facebooks. The assistive technologies are software/devices that assist the visual and hearing impaired individuals. Such technology includes voice activation software for the visual impaired and teletypewriters for the hearing impaired. The guide to the World Wide Web websites is amazing! The sites are categorized into groups such as Travel and Shopping. You can look at the category and find exactly what you need! The search techniques are very useful as well. My favorite technique is the Yahoo Education because I have always used Yahoo and never knew about this neat feature. Lastly, the search tools contains a list of different websites for searching in the classroom. Though not useful currently, this feature can be useful when teaching.
Prior to the web hunt, I had never used the Google search engine. I enjoyed the new experience and learned many tricks of the trade. There are several different categories to refine a search such as: Scholar, video, images, etc. Also, they have iGoogle where you can personalize your own Google page. Lastly, Google has many helpful search hints like using quotation marks and plus signs. Google then prioritizes your search results from most to least relevant. This site will be useful for some aspects of searching the web in my career. Google does contain some elements not included in Yahoo, but Yahoo also has unique elements. Overall, I remain a loyal Yahoo user.
Mozilla Firefox is awesome! I enjoy being able to spell check the emails and blogs I write without extra hassle. All you have to do is write click on the misspelled word and Mozilla gives you suggestions as to the correct spelling. Also, if you put your pointer over a link you can see a preview of the site that link enters. This also works by putting your pointer on a minimized browser. Lastly, Mozilla assists you on search engines. For instance, I want to look up HTML for writing a webpage, all I have to do is type HTML and the list lowers with choices such as HTML code, HTML validation, HTML color codes, etc. Mozilla is the latest and greatest of browsers!