Practice 3


Resource 1 : Digital Life CNET News.com - Click here
Category : Newsgroup
Purpose of resource : News

In this webpage of CNET News, it provides the latest headlines on computer technology in the technology industry. It also contains news on specific category such as consumer technology, desktops, games and etc. Therefore, the targeted audience of this newsgroup can be of any age group, being teenagers or adults. Information from this webpage can be reliable as CNET has been a well-known webpage for people who wish to know more about technology and stuff.



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Resource 2 : Hardware – Computerworld Blog - Click here
Category : Blogs
Purpose of resource : Personal

In this blog, there are entries posted by a blogger named Richi Jennings and the entries are based on its own opinion. Not very reliable as its about this comment on things, but it is good to read if you need to burn some time. What good about this blog is that it provides user to limit down what type of entry he/she interested in by choosing the category on the left of the webpage.


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Resource 3 : Funny Computer Jokes- Click here
Category : Multimedia Sources
Purpose of resource : Entertainment

It contains jokes in all form of media such as video, text, pictures and etc. It even provides mailing of jokes to e-mail by joining their group. It is recommended for people who meets people of IT background very often and wish to crack a few jokes on IT to socialise around. A pretty good webpage to read on to kill some time.

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Resource 4 : PC Magazine – Computer, Software, Hardware and Electronic Reviews, Downloads, News and Opinion- Click here
Category : Electronic journals and magazines
Purpose of resource : Information

It contains information on different specific category of technology and providing the latest top stories and insides stories. It is customize at such it works like a how a person looks at magazines. It contain different tabs for people to look into a topic he/she interested in. Nothing is made easier than this webpage which contains everything onto your fingertips.

I personally loves this webpage as it contains a lot of interesting headline and reviews. It even managed to attract me to read up on certain articles which I am not interested in.

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Reflections

In this week practical, I faced quite a few diffculty during the searching of the webpage. It is mainly due to the words I used for search engine like yahoo, google or live.com . In this practical, I intended to search for something related to more of IT hardware rather than platform based product that I search the previous week. So I used "computer hardware" as my keyword and no useful webpage been found. It has been disturbing me for quite some time but overcome it by putting keywords of the category I wish to search for. For example : "computer hardware blog".

From this week for practical, I learnt to use more keywords to narrow down the result I'm looking for. This will greatly improve the efficiency of my search time. It is a precious lesson for me to learn from.

1. Microsoft Singapore - http://www.microsoft.com.sg/ (WWW Organizational Website)

Microsoft, being the leader in term of platform, has been one of the famous name when people talks about Information Technology. In this Microsoft Singapore website, it contains informations such as their microsoft software, solutions for troubleshooting, answers, support and latest news of their organization. It also cater to specific group of consumers such as business, IT professionals and developers who does codings. Apart from that, it also cater to people just like you and me where it targets people who have passion in their gaming console which are the XBox and the latest XBox360. It is a great website as information regarding Microsoft can be found within here.

2. Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: It’s the future of Windows … Today! -http://www.winsupersite.com/ (WWW Personal Website)

This personal website i featured is mainly on Microsoft latest operating system : Windows Vista . Besides that, some of the products by Microsoft are also being featured inside as well such as Xbox and Zune. This website basically gives very good review on products because the information the author written has reliability and accurate to a certain extend. It also provides detailed information on the things featured.

3. CNET Asia - Where tech becomes life - http://asia.cnet.com/ (WWW subject-based website)

In this subject-based website, you will be able to get full review on the product and most importantly is reader's opinion on it as well. It provides information such as price, specification, review, latest news of technology out in the market and provides inside tips on technology. What makes this website special is that readers are able to give opinion on product as I have mentioned earlier. It is essential because people who post opinion is a user of the product itself, so the comment they post will be accurate and reliable to potential buyers.

4. ZDNet: Tech News and White Papers for IT Professionals - http://www.zdnet.com/ (WWW subject-based website)

This website contains information about technology but in a business point of view. The main target audience of this website is mainly for businessman because all the latest updates about companies in the technology industry can be found easily in it. Although this website is mainly for business, it also provides reviews which is very convenient for readers to navigate rather than visiting several websites.

5. www.hardwarezone.com Forum - http://forum.hardwarezone.com (Discussion Forum)

Hardwarezone is one of the biggest IT portal in Asia and basically almost anything regarding technology can be found. In this portal, it provides discussion forum for members to discuss on the interest they are in such as Mobile Communication Technology, Hardware, Notebook and ect. This forum is very active over the past few years, therefore request will be answered in a short span of time.

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Reflections

Internet has been a well known technology and it has brought convenient to user in search for information. It is just like a library containing mass amount of information. But what makes internet has an advantage over searching for books in the library is that the time taken is reduce massively. Therefore it is essential to have a search engine for users to search for the information they wanted.

Search engine has been very useful to internet users nowadays as it enables users to search for related topic they want in split seconds. However, people do face diffculties trying to look for the information he/she really wants due to the massive amount of information out there. In this case, I'm looking for information on computer technology. It is a topic where a lot of report is out there on the internet and finding something useful needs to have a good knowledge on how to use a search engine well.

At the beginning of my search through the Live search engine, i faced problems where the information is out of date. I overcome this diffculty by adding a "latest" in my search box and I did get the information i wanted. As i search along, I realised something that is how a search engine actually works. It actually works by looking at the keyword inside the textbox of the engine regardless of how the words are being phrased. For example if I wan to look for information of what is windows operating system. I typed in "windows operating system" and i may not get the information I really want. Using what I have stated previously, I can type in "windows operaing system what is" to get the information I wanted. I noticed that the english is not properly phrased but I do get the information I wanted.

After this exercise of searching, searching of information will be of ease to me and will be very useful in the future where I need to look for information for my projects. I will hope to continue exploring the wonders of search engine and making it part of my IT life ahead of me.

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