The Internet for Dummies, 5th Edition Starter Kit

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By John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young. March 1998, 401 pages plus CD-ROM, US$24.99. C$35.99, £23.99, ISBN 0-7645-0356-1. The Internet doesn't hold still, and neither does The Internet for Dummies. Fully revised for 1998, with coverage of the Net's hot topics, including building your own home page, and (finally) on-line chat, and a CD-ROM full of useful Internet software. What's new? Fully updated for 1998, including coverage of Windows 98. All-new chapter on building your own home page New chapter on on-line chatting New chapter on on-line shopping, tips and pitfalls, and the answer to the Credit Card Question. (Yes, we do, if you were wondering.) Even more step by step instructions. Updated resources for your kids. Table of Contents Part I: Welcome to the Internet 1. What is the net? 2. Intranets, Extranets, and Volleyball Nets 3. The Net, Your Kids, and You Part II: Internet, Here I Come 4. Picking Your Internet Service 5. Connecting to the Internet Part III: Web Mania 6. The Wild, Wonderful, Wacky, World Wide Web 7. Wrangling with the Web 8. Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net 9. More Shopping, Less Dropping 10. My First Home Page Part IV: Essential Internet 11. Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither 12. Putting Your Mail in Its Place 13. Mail, Mail the Gang's All Here 14. Let's Get Together and Chat 15. Swiping Files from the Net 16. Alternate Internet Part V: The Part of Tens 17. Ten Frequently Asked Questions 18. Ten Ways to Find E-mail Addresses 19. Ten Kinds of Files and What To Do with Them 10. Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz Appendix: Installing the programs on the CD-ROM Glossary Index CD-ROM Contents Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Programs: Netscape Navigator: The world's most popular web browser Internet Explorer: The world's second most popular web browser Adobe Acrobat Reader: A free program you can use to view and print Portable Document Format, or PDF, files. Mindspring Service: Software that helps you sign up for an Internet account with Mindspring, a large national U.S. Internet Service Provider. Eudora Light: An excellent, free electronic mail program you ca 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 and 98 have 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: Netscape Navigator: The world's most popular web browser Internet Explorer: The world's second most popular web browser 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. Mindspring Service: Software that helps you sign up for an Internet account with Mindspring, a large national U.S. Internet Service Provider. 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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