I also learned about web slices, accelerators, and the RSS feed. I was always curious what an RSS feed was. Web slices allows you to look at frequently updated sites such as weather reports.(71) When you open a page in Explorer there is a green 'add web slices' button that when you click on it subscribes you to new updates and happenings on that page. Accelerators are what is called an 'add on' to Internet Explorer. To use it you highlight text and a little box appears with different options of what you can do. You can do things like find the definition of the selected word, translate the text to a different language, and search with it using it as a keyword. Pretty nifty tool, in my opinion. RSS readers can be either a browser plug-in or an e-mail client or it can be built right in, like on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Basically, an RSS reader distributes current news headlines so its user can keep up to date with the news, new blog postings, or whatever the website content is that you have subscribed to.
One of the best things I learned during my reading of chapter two is about the OnGuard Online website. It is a website that helps the online consumer, like myself, shop safely. I do a lot of online shopping. I just love to be able to sit in the comfort of my home and shop. There are many times the OnGuard website would have been very helpful to me. Overall I think that chapter two was a lot 'common knowledge' type information for people who are internet experienced, but if you are not overly experienced, things like cookies and browsing privacy and security are definitely things you need to learn. www.onguardonline.gov
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