You need to be considerate towards the people you are communicating with when using a program like Skype to chat to family members overseas.
Briefly explain what this means by referring to two suitable examples in your answer.
- Make sure that you check what their local time is before trying to contact them. Keep differences in bandwidth (cost, speed and cap) in mind.
Briefly describe what a distribution list in the context of an email program is and mention the main advantage of this feature.
- Contacts can be organised into groups (distribution lists) so that you are able to send the same message to the group without having to add all the addresses individually each time.
Describe three ways a business can benefit from using a social networking site such as Facebook.
- As more and more users start to make use of social networking, it becomes easier for companies to communicate with their clients.
It is easier and cheaper to advertise their market products or services to a wider audience. They can get quick feedback from customers, etc.
Why is it so important to set your privacy settings when using a social networking site such as Facebook?
- Privacy settings allow you to specify or limit who can view your information, who can post to your wall, who can tag you in posts as well as who can share your posts.
- Why is video conferencing an expensive option if you do not have an uncapped internet connection?
- Video conferencing requires lots of bandwidth and will quickly reduce your available cap.
Briefly explain what a blog is and how it is organised.
a) Blogs are websites that are updated often with news and events in chronological or sequential order. A blog reads like a journal with the most recent entry at the top.
b) Your aunt has also heard of a vlog.
Briefly explain what this is and how it differs from a ‘normal’ blog.
b) A video blog (vlog) is a form of blog which uses video as the medium. Entries on the vlog normally combine video supported by text and images.
c) Blogs have led to a huge increase in what is known as citizen journalism. Briefly explain what citizen journalism refers to.
c) Citizen journalism refers to situations where ordinary citizens (not professional journalists) create and run blogs that carries news that they have written with links to articles that they think their audience will be interested in.
Briefly explain what a blog provider is and give an example of a blog provider.
g) A blog provider or host is a website that allows you to create an account, set up your blog and host your blog. Options include WordPress, Blogger, Wix, SquareSpace, TypePad and Weebly.
Briefly explain what a podcast is and how it is generally used.
a) A podcast is an audio file (often in an MP3 format) that is made available to download for free or to purchase from the internet.
What is a vodcast and how does it differ from a podcast?
d) A video podcast (vodcast) includes video clips or photos. You listen to a podcast and view a vodcast.
What is a pop-up?
a) A pop-up is a small web browser window that appears on top of the web page that you are viewing.
b) What type of pop-ups would you generally want to block?
b) Pop-ups that are created by advertisers and scams that claim you have won a prize etc.
c) Why would one create ‘exceptions’ to allow some sites to display pop-ups?
c) Some websites, such as banking sites, use pop-ups and therefore blocking all
pop-ups might interfere with these features. You can add specific websites to a list of ‘exceptions’ (websites) where pop-ups are allowed to make provision for these features.
Web browsers have features for internet filtering and the blocking of websites. Give three types of websites you might want to block.
- Phishing websites.
Websites that use adware as well as pop-ups to attack your computer. Websites with content such as gambling and pornography.
You may have noticed that a web page often loads quicker when you access it a second time, than the time it took to load the first time.
Explain why this might be the case by referring to the concept of web caching.
- Web browsers temporarily store web documents such as HTML pages and images on disk. This processing is known as caching. The web page loads quicker as it is loaded from your hard drive and not from the web.
Plug-ins and add-ons are types of software commonly found with browsers.
a) What do the following plug-ins have in common?
Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Shockwave Player
a) These are all multimedia plug-ins which enable users to listen to music and view animations,
videos and other multimedia effects in a web browser.
You are busy with an isiZulu project and are battling with a translation. You remember that Google Chrome has a translation add-on. Explain what an add-on is and how this will help you.
b) A browser add-on is a useful third-party party app that can be downloaded (often for free) to extend the functionality of a browser beyond browsing. A translator add-on will help one to translate one language to another language.
- Which of the following are not likely to be trends in the future?
Devices with shorter battery life, mobile connectivity, cloud storage, ‘always on’ connectivity, digitisation of media, distributed processing and storage, and increased connectivity costs.
- Devices with shorter battery life and increased connectivity costs.
