Communications software
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- Created on: 04-12-15 12:12
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- Communication Software
- Hyperlinks
- These are the links which you use to navigate around the web.
- They can be pieces of text or graphics
- Usually appear as blue underlined sections of text
- Hotspots
- An invisible hyperlink that may be hidden within images or areas on the screen
- When mouse is placed over a hotspot the cursor may change
- rollover text box may appear to display information about the object or hyperlink
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator (web address)
- Contains a scheme or protocol (e.g. http://www)
- contains a host (the webserver that hosts that resource, e.g. bbc)
- contains a domain type (signifying commercial, academic, etc, e.g. '.co' or '.ac')
- contains a country code
- contains a path to the file
- Search Engines
- Search engines locate, collect and store information about web pages and websites so we can find information we are looking for
- They are computer programs
- Some search engines are integrated into a browser with a search bar.
- Boolean Operators & Quotation Marks
- AND: only includes results that contain a match for both words or phrases entered into the search
- OR: includes results that contain either of the words or phrases you enter in your search
- NOT: will exclude any websites that contain your specified word or phrases. This can also be combined with AND to make searches more specific.
- Quotation Marks: used in a search to ensure that the engine will only return results that contain the exact word or phrase.
- Refining your search
- Means reducing the number of results achieved by using criteria or more specific criteria to improve the accuracy of the search
- This can be done using a combination of words or phrases
- E-mail
- Electronic mail: allows users to send mail across the internet
- Need: a computer, ISDN or telephone line, modem of ISDN, an account with an ISP, email software
- Contains an subject line.
- this is the first piece of information about the email which briefly describes what email is about
- Attachments
- a document or file that can be added to an email
- Sometimes this is represented by a paper clip
- Viruses and worms can sent in an attachment
- Junk mail
- Spam
- email marketing
- CC: carbon copy. it can be used to send a replica of an email to someone else as well as the main recipient
- BCC: bind carbon copy. it is used to copy other recipients into an email without their email address being viewed by anybody else receiving the email
- Read receipt: this will send an email to the sender of the email informing them that the recipient has read the email
- Delivery receipts: this is send an email to the sender of the email that it has reached the recipient's inbox
- Hyperlinks
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