Internet Skills Page:
Please do at least two from each group
Basic Web Tricks
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Set up a personal Web page and post the URL to the class list
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Download and play MP3 files
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Use Napster and Gnutella
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Configure your browser to warn you before accepting cookies
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Look something up on Yahoo, Ask
Jeeves, DejaNews UseNet Interface
and Google
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Enable your computer to read documents in .pdf format with Adobe
Acrobat
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Find phone numbers and addresses in the White
Pages
Privacy: Yours
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Browse anonymously, using the Anonymizer
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Look yourself up at http://www.anywho.com
,
then click on "maps" and on your address
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Look yourself up at http://www.anybirthday.com
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Visit http://www.privacy.net/analyze
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Read about, and install, Bugnosis
(only works for IE, alas)
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Go to the cookie
check page and see how many advertising site have given, or might be
able to give, you cookies. Then, opt out of internet advertisement
tracking cookies at The
Network Advertising Initiative
Privacy: Other People's
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See who's registered a domain
name that's already taken
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Visit Metaspy and spy on a few search
requests, then check out Google's
Zeitgeist
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Trace a spammer (or trace the path of
any other e-mail sent to you)
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Look up someone you know at Altavista's
Image Search
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Look up someone you know, or wish you knew, in the Miami-Dade
County Property Appraiser Public Access pages
Commerce
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Browse eBay and (locate and) read its
User Agreement and Privacy Policy
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Buy a book or compact disk online and (locate and) read the site's User
Agreement and Privacy Policy
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Surf stock message boards at Silicon
Investor, Raging Bull,
or Yahoo
- Look up five of the most dangerous or dirtiest pages you can think of
on the Internet Censorship
Expolorer
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Use a price-comparison service to find the lowest online price for a 64MB
Compact Flash Memory Card
OPTIONAL
Advanced Web Tricks
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Play internet radio stations from shoutcast
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Find and review your browser's cache and cookie files
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Privacy: Install PGP from http://www.pgp.com
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Install an ad and cookie blocker e.g. Ad
Subtract
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Install a free firewall
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Translate web pages in a foreign language into English (or other languages)
at BabelFish
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Talk to friends and relatives over the web in real time with an instant
messenger AOL, Yahoo
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Install parental control filters web filters from the Internet
Rating and Content Association (ICRA)
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Find a wide range of Internet tools at Geektools
Extra Advanced Web Tricks
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Try to locate a privacy policy posted on any .edu site for a US institution
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Suggest something that should
be part of this web page.
Thanks to Prof. Walter
Effross, who compiled the original list from which this is adapted
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Last Modified Aug 27, 2002