CIS 140 Lab 3 Name _______________________
Establishing your own Email account:
If you have your own Email already, enter your Email address here ____________@___________________ and you are done.
If you do not have your own Email. I want you to create your own Email account through Yahoo (as described in class). You will need to go to the Yahoo URL http://www.yahoo.com, select the Free Email icon and follow the instructions. When you are done enter your Email address here:
____________@___________________.
Establishing your own web page:
If you have your own web page already, enter your Web Page URL here:
http://www.________________________________________ and you are done.
If you do not have your own web page. I want you to create your own web page through GeoCities (as described in class). You will need to go to the GeoCities URL http://www.geocities.com, select the free web page icon and follow the instructions. When you are done enter your web page URL here: http://www.___________________________________________.
Note: You will have to establish your Email account first. It is needed to open a free web page. You must make a modification to the default web page that GeoCities gives you, or it will be deleted in a few weeks. So, I want you to edit your web page and using the copy and paste command add the following lines to it.
<br>Finding the results of a net search: Use the search engine "www.metacrawler.com" to perform the following searches and answer the associated questions below.
Search 1: Current Events: On the CNN web site, under the link called Politics, what is the top story of the day ? ____________________________________________________
Where (what part of the country) did the article come from ?_____________________________
Search 2: Special Interest: I skydive at a place called Skydance Skydiving in Davis California. On their web page, what link is referred to as "the technical side of how to refine your skydiving skills" ?? ___________________________________
Search 3: Locating a downloadable software: One type of software made to "poll" the Internet at regular intervals and provide you with reports like: Stock market, weather, current news, sports and other items of interest is Pointcast -- or their new name -- USA Today Newstracker. Go to their web site and find the system requirements. Tell me only the CPU requirement for downloading their product. ______________________________
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