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Mostly useful for people who use Chrome, but most of these undoubtedly have analogues or versions in Firefox. A lot of good extensions for news, productivity and research, plus some stuff that's just plain cool.

While this website is helpful, many of the apps do not seem to be useful to everyday browsing, excluding a few in the Education section of the article. Granted, I still went and downloaded a lot of those apps because, as Nathan said above me, they're pretty cool.

Browser extensions are definitely neat -- all the browsers have them now, pretty much. Firefox was the first browser to be extensible like this, so there tend to be a lot of extensions available for it. Zotero, which we're going to learn about next week, started out as a Firefox extension. I thought about defining "extension" in core concepts, but it's maybe a little more advanced than that. Extensions (also called "add-ons" and "plugins") are basically little apps that "plug in" to a big app.

This website provides a simple timeline of ARPANET events

Found this timeline of the internet to be interesting. It's fascinating to see how it got started and how it changed since it first began.

I didn't know that Queen Elizabeth was the first world leader to send an email ...

Found this article about security measures. It's really interesting.

A very hot issue right now. "Security" is definitely one of the issues you can write about if you like.

Good link, Claire, and because it comes from Microsoft you can be pretty sure it's good info. Don't forget to comment on the link you share, though, with a brief evaluation of what you've shared. I'll give you credit this time, though.

A site that gives you different examples of SQL's and how to use them.

Thanks, Vincent, though learning SQL is a pretty advanced skill. It's unlikely you'll need it anytime soon, certainly not for this class. I do regret asking the question on the exam -- maybe I'll give everyone automatic credit!

Teaches you XML through examples and trying it yourself.

Interesting article about hackers who have received a lot of attention

Since we were talking about search engines last class, I found this interesting. Heres a list of different types of search engines and what they are mainly used for.

The list that has all possible search engines for almost anything.

How to create a bibliography using Zotero.

Here are some interesting facts about wikipedia.

some interesting facts about WIkipedia and it will help us to learn more about it.

Geographic coverage of Wikipedia. This shows the geographical location of articles, a geographic features, etc. Mapping Wikipedia is a collaboration between TraceMedia and the Oxford Internet Institute.

A visualization of the latest hot searches from Google Trends portrayed as sliding tiles.

This is a detailed definition of the UUCP that was used to connect to the US from South Korea as a dial-up connection.

A few weeks late to be that relevant but I thought this was really kind of cool.

Major differences between scholarly, trade, and popular publications.

website on UMUC breaks down the difference in sources and how to use them

I found this video very useful. It's easy to understand and gives very clear step by step instructions.