Chilling Out: Internet @ction How to Use the Internet to Make the Most of Your Leisure Time

by Rooney, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780806941493
• ISBN10: 0806941499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-30
• Publisher: Big Fish

Summary

Are you ready for a trip into deepest cyberspace? Inside that small computer lies a big, wide world to discover--and this is the coolest way to travel the information highway, the wildest system for surfing the web. Newcomers to the net will get a brightly and energetically illustrated introduction showing how to make the connection--with all the insider's lingo, a helping hand on doing searches, and directions on bookmarking favorite sites. Then the fun really begins when you're clued into super-smart ideas for finding what you want--like the names of great places to rollerblade or the theater with that hot new movie. Help scientists carry out their research; go where you aren't, via webcam; send e-mails to new friends everywhere; and maybe even track an alien! Whether you want to make a cyber-birthday card or design your own web page, you'll find the facts @ here!

Table of Contents

Get ready	4	(2)
All about what the Internet is and how to use this book
Set	6	(2)
What you need to go on the Net and how to start setting things up
Go!	8	(2)
How to launch yourself onto the Net and get to grips with a web browser
Familiar ground	10	(2)
All about web addresses, and how to find your way around in cyberspace
Where's the map?	12	(2)
How a search engine can help you find everything you need - and how to keep track of your favorite places
Smart searching	14	(2)
Clever ways to narrow down your searches and make surfing quicker and easier
Don't be a couch potato!	16	(2)
Let the Web lead you out and about - prepare to have fun and make yourself useful!
OK, do be a couch potato!	18	(2)
Glued to your computer? Get into some serious chillin' out!
Be where you aren't	20	(2)
Watch the world go by on the Web - using webcams
You've got mail!	22	(2)
All about e-mail - what it is, how to use it, and what it can do
More mailing	24	(2)
Advanced e-mailing tricks and skills - and how to find an e-pal!
Time out	26	(2)
Games, games, games - how to find them on the Web and play your life away
Happy birthday	28	(2)
Send web cards, invitations, and postcards from your tours of cyberspace
Ch&amalt;tterbox	30	(2)
Find out how to chat and gossip halfway around the globe
Get something for nothing	32	(2)
The Web is full of freebies - here's how to get your hands on them
Windows™ shopping	34	(2)
How to go shopping on-line - with real cash or e-cash
Be a writer	36	(2)
Use the Web to let the world read your wonderful work, or add your bit to an on-line story
(Mag)e-zines	38	(2)
Fed up with paper mags? Subscribe on the Web and read about every subject under the sun - or start up your own e-zine
&amalt; Home	40	(2)
Now you're a web expert, you can think about designing your own wild web page
Still &amalt; home	42	(2)
More web-weaving tips and tricks
Extra web stuff	44	(1)
Grown-up zone	45	(1)
Useful words	46	(2)
Index	48