The everyday internet all in one desk reference for dummies wiley

[...]... 533 All- Purpose Searching Sites .533 Obtaining Vital Information from the Social Security Death Index .534 Searching the Census and Other Vital Records 535 Searching for Information about a Surname 536 Searching the Passenger Lists 538 xxiv The Everyday Internet All- In- One Desk Reference For Dummies Obtaining Data from Localities 538 Writing to Obtain Vital Records... described in this book, but this book isn’t a directory of Web sites on the Internet The focus is on doing things — researching, online banking, communicating, making new friends, playing games, talking over the Internet telephone, online shopping, online selling, and blogging In the course of describing these and other activities — everyday activities that can be part of your Internet repertoire — I introduce... Financial Information 369 Getting Lessons in How to Invest 369 Devising an Investment Strategy .370 Discovering Basic Researching Techniques 371 The big, gaudy financial portals 372 Researching a company online 373 Researching in mailing lists and newsgroups 374 xx The Everyday Internet All- In- One Desk Reference For Dummies Getting the Latest Financial... 374 Financial newspapers and magazines .375 Online newsletters 376 Researching Mutual Funds, Stocks, and Bonds on the Internet 376 Researching a mutual fund on the Internet 377 Researching stocks on the Internet 378 Researching bonds on the Internet 380 Finding a Broker 381 Chapter 2: Monitoring and Tracking Investments 383 Introducing Investment... Item for Bidding 451 Choosing a category 452 Describing your item 452 Providing the pictures and item details 453 Choosing the payment and shipping methods 454 Reviewing and submitting 454 Monitoring the Auction 455 Closing the Sale 455 xxii The Everyday Internet All- In- One Desk Reference For Dummies Chapter 2: Selling Items Online ... only Web sites that are useful for finding information or buying things but also Web sites that I consider intriguing, wonderful, astonishing, bizarre, or entertaining I stay away from the big corporate Web sites Most Internet adventurers can find them on their own for one thing, and for another, those Web sites are too easy to get lost in For shopping on the Internet, I prefer specialty stores 6 Foolish... movie fans 498 Choosing a good movie 500 Getting your local movie listings .500 Renting DVDs over the Internet 501 Getting Your Local TV Listings 502 Listening to Internet Radio 503 Finding an Internet radio station .504 Receiving an Internet radio station 505 Finding Books Online 507 Chapter 4: The Internet for Music Lovers ... exploring the Internet a safe and rewarding experience for children This chapter describes many Web sites for children, as well as Web sites for moms and dads looking for advice about parenting Book II: Exploring the Internet Book II shows you how to use a Web browser and how to be an Internet researcher, or better yet, an Internet detective It explains how you can reach into all corners of the Internet. .. help on the Internet from other researchers — you know, the human kind In Chapter 5, I point you to online encyclopedias and other references and show you how to look up people, addresses, and telephone numbers on the Internet Chapter 6 examines how to get the latest news, where the online newspapers are, and how to get the news from abroad It introduces an exciting new technology for staying on the top... Preventing and controlling pop-ups 109 Choosing a default search engine 111 Chapter 3: Strategies for Internet Searching 113 Finding Out about Search Engines 113 How directories work 114 How standard search engines work 117 How meta-search engines work .120 xiv The Everyday Internet All- In- One Desk Reference For Dummies Which Search Engine Should . Weverka The Everyday Internet ALL- IN- ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_588753 ffirs.qxd 3/30/05 9:18 PM Page iii 01_588753 ffirs.qxd 3/30/05 9:18 PM Page ii The Everyday Internet ALL- IN- ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_588753. iii The Everyday Internet All- In- One Desk Reference For Dummies ® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www .wiley. com Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc.,. at http://www .wiley. com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and