Thursday, April 10, 2008

Module One - Further Exploration

Having downloaded the Internet tool bar some time ago and running into some time issues I finally got back to it.

I opened it easily and it shows up on my desktop as follows



Firstly I tried a search which was easy to use and found the relevant information easily. After a little playing around I found I could search for various things such as the web, images etc.













This is a definite bonus as it eliminates having to open separate browsers for different requirements.

I found this toolbar to have vast amounts of information on it however feel it is going to take some time to work through it.

An example of some of them are as follows:


























The toolbar seems to have so much on it that I found it a bit overwhelming. I was jumping from such things such as system information, currency converter, language translator etc etc

I used the trace tool in the toolbar and got the following result.













The paths from my previous traceroute to this one were different however it is hard to compare as I am now using a different server from a different location. I did note however that some of the ip's were the same or very similar suggesting that the path is roughly following the same path.

This Internet toolbar certainly has some advantages to it and I can see why it would be so useful to get into the habit of using, especially for someone that has high levels of work and Internet use.

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