Sunday, 9 June 2013

Bibliography

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband
  2. www.doubleplus.com/ecommerce-credibility.html
  3.  http://translate.google.co.za
  4. stackoverflow.com/.../meaning-of-xml-version-1-0-encoding-utf-8
  5. www.kickstarter.com/
  6. http://twistedsifter.com/2012/06/funny-easter-eggs-on-websites-internet/
  7. http://www.buzzfeed.com/wirelessforamerica/10-internet-easter-eggs-that-are-completely-awesome
Question 11

Two ways to identify weather an e-commerce website is credible or not?

  • The website should contain a digital certificate which is an ID that shows credibility of the website.
  • The website  should also display "Trustmarks".(www.doubleplus.com/ecommerce-credibility.html )



Some examples of  "trustmarks".
 
 

Question 7


Mobile broadband is the marketing term for wireless Internet access delivered through mobile phone towers to computers, mobile phones ,and other digital devices using portable modems. Although broadband has a technical meaning, wireless-carrier marketing uses the phrase "mobile broadband" as a synonym for mobile Internet access(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband). I am using Vodafone mobile broad that uses 976 bits per second.
Question 9

An RSS aggregator is a collection if web feed and arranges specific type of information from a variety of online sources and it publishes frequently updated work. These include the grouping of data such as blogs, audio, weather, videos ,news headlines etc.

Question 10

The sentence "Elimine la carpeta llamada "eliminar" en el escritorio" means delete the folder called "delete" on the desktop. The process to this procedure is to visit the web site http://translate.google.co.za and type in the given sentence in the left hand block and the language detected will be Spanish. On the right hand block the sentence will be translated to English .

Wednesday, 5 June 2013


Question 6

 

Enconding_UTF-8_ definition

Encoding refers to the file that is been encoded with UTF-8 Unicode encoding. UTF-8 is standard and can also contain any Unicode character. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format and the 8 means it uses 8-bit blocks to represent a character (stackoverflow.com/.../meaning-of-xml-version-1-0-encoding-utf-8 )

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Question 2
Ten internet easter eggs


1. The Funny Chicken Dance

 
When you type 2204355 into the Google search box and click "I'm Feeling Lucky", this video starts playing
 
 
 
 
2. Epic Google
 
 
Type in "epic google" into the Google search box and click on "I'm Feeling Lucky". This site will appear and it will start to zoom in by itself.




3. The Oatmeal Website
 
When you go onto The Oatmeal website and right click, press view source, this image will appear.
 
 
 
 
4. The Konami Code
 

 
This is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games.
 


Go to Google reader. Type in the Konami code and a ninja will pop out on the left side of the screen.
 
 
 
5. YouTube Harlem Shake
 

 
Type in "do the Harlem shake" in the search box of YouTube. The screen actually does the Harlem Shake.
 
 
 
 
6. YouTube Snake Game
 




While waiting on YouTube for you video to load you could click on any arrow on your kepboard and a snake game will start.
 
 
7. Zerg Rush

 
This easter egg tries to destroy or attacks the search results from the screen after searching zerg rush.
 
 
 
8. Skybet’s Spreadsheet Easter Egg
 


Click on the guy above the facebook icon if your boss enters.
 
 



An analysis spreadsheet will appear to show your boss that work is being done.
 
 
 
 
9. Chuck Norris
 





 
When you search “Find Chuck Norris” on Google and click “I’m Feeling Lucky”, this will appear.
 
 
10. Kickstarter
 
 
 
go to kickstarter scroll down and click on the scissors
 
 


 this will appear