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Chapter 12 Cruising the Web, Sending E- Mail, and Using Newsgroups In This Chapter B Understanding the Internet and World Wide Web B Understanding differences between the Internet and online services B Knowing how to access the World Wide Web B Using the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser B Navigating the World Wide Web B Upgrading with downloaded plug-ins B Sending and receiving e-mail with Outlook Express B Using newsgroups with Outlook Express he family photo album is disappearing. A friend of mine visited with his family the other day. He brought his new digital camera and took pictures of the vacation. Each evening, he used the telephone and his laptop to send the cam- era’s pictures to his Web site, and then he tweaked his Web site’s set- tings to create a daily pictorial journal of the day’s events. You won’t find a black photo album in his closet; he’s sharing his life with anyone who cares to look. Other Web sites go to even greater extremes. A cab driver in New York has a digital camera hooked up to a cellular phone; every few minutes, the camera takes a picture of the bustling streets and automatically sends the photo to the cabby’s Web site. You needn’t be as elaborate with your own Web site. In fact, you don’t need to have a Web site at all. This chapter shows how to peek at all the other sites out there, though, should you get the urge. T
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