The Internet for Dummies, Starter Kit Edition

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By John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi, Margaret Levine Young and Hy Bender. March 1997, 401 pages, US$24.99. C$34.99, £23.99, ISBN 0-7645-0107-0. The Internet doesn't hold still, and neither does The Internet for Dummies. Newly revised for 1997, with coverage of the Net's hot topics, and a CD-ROM full of useful Internet software. What's new? Lots more info about Netscape and Internet Explorer. Detailed info on finding stuff on the Web. On-line updates, for the topics that change the fastest. More jokes. More step by step instructions. Resources for your kids. An introduction to Intranets. Table of Contents Part I: Welcome to the Internet 1. What is the net? 2. Internet, Here I Come 3. Intranet? Are You Sure That's Spelled Right? 4. The Net, Your Kids, and You Part II: Using Your Internet Account 5. The Wild, Wonderful, Wacky, World Wide Web 6. Wrangling with the Web 7. Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net 8. Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither 9. Putting Your Mail in Its Place 10. Mail, Mail the Gang's All Here 11. All the News that Fits and Considerably More 12. Swiping Files from the Net Part III: Getting an Internet Account: Some Popular Entrance Ramps 13. Using the Internet via an Internet Service Provider 14. Using the Internet via America Online 15. Using the Internet via Compuserve Part IV: The Part of Tens 16. Ten Frequently Asked Questions 17. Ten Ways to Find E-mail Addresses 18. Ten Kinds of Files and What To Do with Them 19. Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz Part V: Resource Reference 20. Finding a Public Internet Provider 21. Sources of Internet Software 22. I Want to Learn More Appendix: Installing the programs on the CD-ROM Glossary Index CD-ROM Contents Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Programs: Adobe Acrobat Reader: A free program you can use to view and print Portable Document Format, or PDF, files. AT&T WorldNet Service: Software that helps you sign up for an Internet account with AT&T WorldNet Service; it includes a free version of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Eudora Light: An excellent, free electronic mail program you can use to send and receive e-mail messages over the Internet. Free Agent: An excellent, free newsgroup reader (or newsreader) program you can use to participate in thousands of online discussions over the Internet. HotDog: A shareware program that enables you to create your own World Wide Web pages without requiring you to be an HTML programming whiz. mIRC: A shareware Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, program you can use to interact live, via your keyboard, with a group of people on the Internet. NetTerm: A shareware program that lets you log on to other computers as a terminal via a slightly old-fashioned method called Telnet. Paint Shop Pro: A shareware graphics program you can use to view virtually any image you're likely to encounter on the Web. Using this program, you can create and edit images and convert them into different file formats, which is useful if you want to make your own Web pages. ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus: A shareware virus-detection tool that helps you safeguard your data from destructive programs. Trumpet Winsock: A shareware TCP/IP program that provides the foundation a Windows 3.1 PC needs in order to connect to the Internet. (Windows 95 has built-in TCP/IP software.) WinZip: An invaluable shareware decompression utility you can use to make compressed files usable again. WS_FTP LE: A free (for noncommercial use) File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, program you can use to copy files between your PC and a computer on the Internet. Macintosh programs: Adobe Acrobat Reader: A free program you can use to view and print Portable Document Format, or PDF, files. Anarchie: A shareware File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, program you can use to copy files between your Macintosh and a computer on the Internet. AT&T WorldNet Service: Software that helps you sign up for an Internet account with AT&T WorldNet Service; it includes a free version of Netscape Navigator. BBEdit Lite: A freeware text editor that enables you to create your own World Wide Web pages using HTML programming. Disinfectant: A freeware virus-detection tool that helps you safeguard your data from destructive programs. DropStuff with Expander Enhancer: An invaluable shareware decompression utility that allows you to create a StuffIt archive just by dragging and dropping files on its icon. DropStuff also gives the freeware program StuffIt Expander the ability to decompress PC ZIP archives and much more. Eudora Light: An excellent free, electronic-mail program you can use to send and receive e-mail messages over the Internet. FreePPP: A shareware TCP/IP program that provides the foundation software a Macintosh needs in order to get connected to the Internet. GraphicConverter: A shareware graphics program you can use to view virtually any image you're likely to encounter on the Web. Using this program, you can transform images from one file format to another, which is useful if you want to make your own Web pages. InterNews: A shareware newsgroup reader (or newsreader) program you can use to participate in thousands of online discussions over the Internet. Ircle: A shareware Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, program you can use to interact live, via your keyboard, with a group of people on the Internet. NCSA Telnet: A shareware program that lets you log on to other computers as a terminal via a slightly old-fashioned method called Telnet. StuffIt Expander: A freeware program which opens files that have been compressed in StuffIt archives. It can also decode files sent as BinHex, the Internet file encoding scheme for Macs.

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