All A’Twitter

By now, most of us have heard and have partaken of social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook. These websites allow users to create profiles, share photos, upload links, and find old friends. That's quite a...

How Search Engines Work

Web Crawling The most popular search engine by far is named Google after the googol, or a one followed by 100 zeros, a reference to the reams of material the search engine can find with the click...

How To Find Just About Anything

Information Highway There's a good reason the World Wide Web is called the information highway. With its many hundreds of millions of pages there for the choosing and perusing, you can find out just about anything...

Coping In Online Classroom

So you've taken the plunge and enrolled in an online learning course. No matter what your chosen subject, the format of your learning program may be completely different to that of any course you ever...

Online Adult Literacy

Many people who return to education after a long "time-out" find they need to brush up on their reading and writing skills in order to get the best out of their learning opportunities. In fact, if...

A New Discipline

Keeping it Benign The Web has grown beyond anyone's wildest imagination and this has led to all kinds of legal issues and new ways of social interaction. Such issues and trends run the gamut from...

Shut Down or Sleep

When it's time to leave your computer at the end of the day, what do you do? Do you leave it on, put it into sleep mode, or shut down? In most cases we do what...

Cell Phones on Campus

An Essential Annoyance These days the mobile phone is both an essential part of our apparel and an unending annoyance. They help us keep in touch with our families, our friends, and the office. But...

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