NET 11 - Learning Log of the Advanced Internet User

Module 4 & Tasks

Using the infosphere: taking & organising

11/02/2008

As we have discussed, the most important things to look for in 'additional tools' are:

• cost - and, indeed, in most cases look for free products
• ease of use - can you use it easily (while recognising that you may need to learn to use programs)
• functionality - does it do what it needs to if it is to be effective (ie if a single vital element is missing, an other wise 'good' program is useless)
• utility - does the program increase your effectiveness (saving time, in particular, or allowing you to do something previously not done)
• commonality - is the program becoming 'standard' or at least common.

6 of February 11, 2008

In your learning log record which programs you downloaded and note which (if any) facets you think might prove useful.

I do apologize for the unchronological order of the this log but as the situation with reinstalling the OS on my laptop I thought of redoing the module 4 tasks.

Tools for using the web

compare the two in your learning log.

I’ve downloaded the exe file as requested and allowed adobe add-ons in my mozilla browser.

2. Flash/Shockwave Players

I did have Flash and/or Shockwave.

3. Media Players

At some stage I did have all of the listed players but for this task I’ve downloaded Real One cause I already have win media player and I’m not a mac user.

I can compare winup and media player.

Usually every player that we download has a trial version or has limited features.

For this task I managed with great difficulties to download Real One and Quicktime Player because my dsl account was shaped so instead of the poor 64 KB/sec I was getting half of it.

Choose your connection speed I hesitated not to click dial-up instead of broadband because the actual speed is worse than dial-up.

Installation went with no problems. I was careful to untick the features that I won’t need or be using. I listened to the ilecture on webc.

I downloaded Quicktime Player from the ilecture site when I choose to listen with Q. It gave me the option to save the link and download for free the player.

15/2/2008

1. Search Manager/Combiners

Glooton link was on French so I wasn’t able to understand how much I tried so I did a search on Google but no success.

I’ve downloaded Copenic desktop search for windows.

Enlightening !

This looks very good and useful tool. Such an interesting search tool. Did search of the web and both things in my pc. You can do a search both within the web and your local folders. I tested by doing a search with the keyword ‘music’ and I got 55 matching documents.

6. Offline Browser/Copier:

I wasn’t quite surprised and didn’t find quite useful the buddybookmark or maybe I didn’t explore too much with it.

Wasn’t able to download WebCopier and PageSucker because they didn’t have a version for vista and I didn’t want to risk with the other versions.

I don’t think that I’ll be using any of those so I didn’t even try searching for other compatible tools.

PS. I’m still giving vista a chance although she didn’t make my life easier in a contrary made my life worse.

search engine task

For this task I’m going to use my main primary web search engine Google and Copernic. From the discussion board I’ve learned about others such Incywincy, CompletePlanet.com...

I used Clusty, Vivisimo

With the help of the discussion board I realised that it is ok that I couldn’t find to set Coperning to search with three web engines including the deep web.

My key word was FTP – File transfer protocol

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,850,000 for File transfer protocol [definition]. (0.14 seconds)

http://www.filesanywhere.com/?REF_ID=2002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213976,00.html

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc959.html

http://www.ftpplanet.com/ftpresources/basics.htm

Copernic gave 4 sponzored links and 43 search results

Sponzored ones were no related with the FTP.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc959.html

http://www.ncftp.com/libncftp/doc/ftp_overview.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

http://www.ftpplanet.com/ftpresources/basics.htm

http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/File_Transfer_P.htm?iam=momma_100_SKD&terms=%22file+transfer+protocol%22

Do search with

http://turbo10.com/

http://www.incywincy.com/search-engine/web/web?q

http://aip.completeplanet.com/aip-engines/browse?thisPage=%2Fbrowse%2Fbrowse.jsp&successPage=%2Fbrowse%2Fbrowse.jsp&errorFlag=&errorMsg=&event=loadPageEvent&directPage=&directSection=4&treeQueryExpr=&treeQueryType=phrase&treeQueryTarget=tree

vivisimo, clusty, yahoo..

Boolean

For this task I needed to make the best search with my required key word therefore I used the Boolean logic for searching on the Internet. I couldn’t do much search for academic sources cause the nature of the actual FTP  

My key words were  ‘file transfer protocol NOT internet tools’.

I got what I needed with getting the most relevant information.

My result :

http://www.iucr.org/cww-top/int.ftp.gen.html 

http://www.techtrainteam.com/services/olt/internet/ftp-0.html

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc959

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2389

I can’t say that they are academic but all of them except the Wikipedia one I can use as reference.

I wonder why Google gave me Wikipedia result with SSH file transfer protocol instead of just FTP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words

ftp NOT internet tools 174,000

file transfer protocol OR FTP 3,230,000

internet tools AND FTP 747,000

internet tools OR ftp 748,000

Very interesting is to note that FTP and file transfer protocol gives different numer of result

FTP 276,000,000

File transfer protocol 4,420,000

For my annotaded bibliography I mainly searched for academic sites on the Oasis Gecko Database. That was very convenient and easy and in short time I found qualitative resource that I needed.

I will conclude that I need to do more practice to manage through other search engines to manage to do the same.

http://www.techtrainteam.com/services/olt/internet/ftp-0.html

I chose Technology Training Team because it’s a company with over 20 years experience in developing and training in elementary, secondary and

university level. It's staff is composed by educators with over 50 years of experience.

For the nature of the company, the purpose of the website is to inform, never to persuade, visitors to buy a specific product or anything else.

References are not provided but there's a link to contact the technical team.

Content is always neutral, not written to persuade or influence visitors.

There's no info about "update date" but for the topic I'm talking about, FTP, there's no need to check info against any date since the article it's

about general introduction and principles haven't changed since its creation.

Many websites link to www.techtrainteam.com (On Google type: “link: www.techtrainteam.com”)

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213976,00.html

Searchnetworking is one of the largest online communities dedicated to enterprise networking. Even though the website is filled with advertisements it’s considered one of the best website for IT related news, technical tips and valuable tests on both hardware and software.

Info are short but clear and even though there are not references available, they do show many technical articles about the same topic to give the opportunity to the visitors to compare the info against different sources.

The “last updated date” is always at the end of the article.

The website has many websites linking to it (On Google type:

“link: searchnetworking.techtarget.com”)