Glorious World of Web Resources
This week I was re-associated with the wonderful world of web resources…my, my, how I have missed these pages. Our challenge this week, if we chose to accept, saw us don our ‘Toowoomba Jones’ hat and delve into knowledgeable world of forums, software download sites etc. The biggest challenge I found was trying to remember all my passwords for the various sites which I signed up to last semester, which included:
www.digg.com
www.fark.com
www.flickr.com
www.furl.com
All of these sites offer the subscriber/user various services/applications. For example, in class Jason discussed www.cnet.com and how you can literally find any software or program to download FREE and without spyware attached to it…which is a huge bonus! Last semester I was lucky enough to have a computer which had Photoshop, but alas that computer is now in heaven and I was left with no photo programs. Hence my rather quick downloading of GIMP, which I am still trying to figure out how to use (yes there will be screenshots added eventually on this blog!). Last semester I used flickr quite a bit on my blog pages. Not only does this site allow the user to upload and create albums to display on the web, you can now also make your own books/business cards etc.
W3schools.com is also a great website. Again I consulted this page many a time after a tip-off from a friend about it. It has various code and instructions on how to get your page to do various things, i.e. open a link in a new window. I’m sure again this semester it will become my best friend.
Fark.com and metacritic.com offer news and reviews. These webpage’s offer links to the contributors own blog site/web site. Contributors vary between actual business, such as New York Times to someone how has created their own blog on a specific subject or various subjects. I find these web pages quite useful as they lead you on to sites which you usually would probably not think to look at. Plus the content is quite broad and caters for most in terms of news/sports/bizarre stuff. Technorati.com also offers the same style of content as these other sites.
