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.