Google Exterme 2 - weblinks

Take a look at some of the topics covered in our Google Extreme 2 computer course - Enjoy

Video explaining the “Knowledge Graph” and how it works can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mmQl6VGvX-c

Online Magazines available via Google books at: http://books.google.com.au/books/magazines/language/en


Google Translate at: https://translate.google.com.au

How is Google search changing the world  -  Google Reunion

View Amazon Deforestation in Brazil at: Landstat videos 1984 - 2012

A recent video showing some of the features of Google – Released on 13 November the video has already had over 10 million views.The 3 minute video shows various uses of Google search.  https://earthengine.google.org/#intro/Amazon

10 Technologies in 90 minutes

The following websites were featured in our 10 Technologies in 90 minutes on Monday. I hope you find the resources helpful.

1. Video & Photo sharing websites
YouTube at: www.youtube.com
Vimeo at: www.vimeo.com
Google video at: http://video.google.com
Commoncraft at: www.commoncraft.com (Videos on technology – highly recommended)
FlickR at: www.flickr.com – photo sharing website
Smugmug at: www.smugmug.com
Picasa at: www.picasa.google.com (Photo Imaging and management software)
Picasa Web Albums at: www.picasaweb.google.com - photo sharing website
GIMP at: www.gimp.org (Photo Imaging software)

2.Voice over IP
Skype at: www.skype.com (Voip supplier)

3. Social networking & microblogging
MySpace at: www.myspace.com
Facebook at: www.facebook.com
Linkedin at: www.linkedin.com (Employment Social Networking site)
Twitter at: www.twitter.com – (social networking micro-blogging site)

4. Cloud computing (working in the cloud)
Google Documents at: http://doc.google.com (Software website)
Dropbox at: www.dropbox.com (Document management software)
Zoho at: www.zoho.com (Application software website – free word processing, spreadsheets, presentations software & storage)
Zoho Documents at: http://docs.zoho.com (Word document and storage website)

5. Ebooks & eBook Readers
Amazon at: www.amazon.com (eBook site)
Project Gutenburg at http://www.gutenberg.org (eBook site)
eReader blogsite: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/

Hathi Trust at: www.hathitrust.org
Booklending at: www.booklending.com (eBook leading site)

6. RSS Feeds
Google Reader at: www.google.com/reader
Blogger at: www.blogger.com
Word Press at: www.wordpress.com

7. Blog websites
Search Me Now at: http://searchmenow.blogspot.com/ (Malcolm’s Blog)
Links to websites on family history, travel, health, new technology, search tips.
Lifehacker at: www.lifehacker.com.au (Technology Blog)
Craftzine at: http://blog.craftzine.com (Craft Blog)
Frockwriter at: www.frockwriter.com (Fashion Blog)
Gizmodo at: www.gizmodo.com.au (Technology/Gadget Blog)
eReader blog at: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/ (eReader Blog)
Google Blog search at: http://blogsearch.google.com/ (Search Engine Blog)
Technorati at http://www.technorati.com/ (Search Engine Blog)
Search engine blog at: http://www.searchengineblog.com
Search Engine watch at: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/ (Search Engine Blog)

8. Augmented Reality
You Tube video about AE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqxF2Vdkyxw
Commoncraft video about Augmented Realityat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-A1l4Jn6EY
Augmented Reality video – Is it real life or cinema?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6c1STmvNJc

9. Mobile devices & Applications or Apps
Andriod Market: https://market.android.com
Apple (iPhones) at: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app
App store at: http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/

10. Near Field Communication & QR codes
Touchanote at: http://www.touchanote.com
Evernote at: www.evernote.com
Near field Communication video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5mUdeEF8c
Demonstration video of NFC at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=jl9uTsjRF6c&NR=1
QR codes read/NFC at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08Rwcv4K1o
Invisible QR codes video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPgYV-__mo&feature=related

Other Technology Topics & websites previously covered
Wikipeadia at: www.wikipedia.org (Wiki)
PBwiki at: www.pbwiki.com (Wiki Hosting website)
Wikispaces at: www.wikispaces.com (Wiki Hosting website)
Google Maps at: http://maps.google.com.au
Google Street View http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ (Find out more)

Technology help site
ForwardIT at: http://www.forwardit.sa.gov.au/learn/it

Adelaide in the 1960's

Adelaide in the 1960's
An interesting 20 minute film showing a picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s.

Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by James Jeffrey.

Uploaded to YouTube January 2011.
Well worth a look. You may even see someone you know.

Search tips & travel websites

How to search the Internet using a Search Engine
Search Engines allow you to type in keywords to find things. They can be good at finding travel information on various destinations as well as finding information on specific hotel accommodation, airline flights, car hire, passport and visa information.
Search Engines search in different ways. To fully utilise a search engine, look for the Help notes or Search Tips on the homepage or search page of the Search Engine you are using.

Recommended Search Engines on the Internet are:
Google at www.google.com
Yahoo at: http://search.yahoo.com

iBoogie at: www.iboogie.com
Altavista at: www.altavista.com.au
Clusty at: www.clusty.com
Searchcube at: www.search-cube.com
Exalead at: www.exalead.com/search
Bing at: www.bing.com
URL.com at: http://search.url.com

Search Tips:
Tip No1: Use Quotation Marks
When searching for a topic of more than one word ie, a phrase, use quotation marks “ “

“port douglas”
“port elliot”
sydney accommodation apartments ”6 people”

Tip No2: Search in a specific field on a webpage & identify your keywords.
Some search engines allow you to search in a specific field of a web page. In Google you can search

intitle:”Port Douglas” accommodation “self contained”
intitle:”port elliot” “south australia” accommodation “3 bedrooms”

How to search the Internet using a Subject Directory
Subject Directories classify the Internet into various categories. Most will have a general Category for Travel. This general category is then broken down into sub-categories. For example:

Travel>Destinations>Oceania>Australia>Queensland>By Locality>Port Douglas>Accommodation

Recommended Subject Directories & (Travel information) on the Internet are:
· Yahoo Directory at: http://au.dir.yahoo.com
· Yahoo Travel at: http://au.dir.yahoo.com/recreation/travel/
· DMOZ at: www.dmoz.org
· Webwombat at: http://www.webwombat.com.au/travel/

Recommended Travel websites
· Lonely Planet at www.lonelyplanet.com
· Rough Guide at: www.roughguides.com
· Frommers at: http://www.frommers.com/
· Fodors at: www.fodors.com
· Pilot Guides at: www.pilotguides.com

Specific Australian Travel Websites
· Zuji at: www.zuji.com.au
· CitySearch at: http://adelaide.citysearch.com.au
· Expedia at: www.expedia.com.au
· RAA at: http://www.raa.net/holidays
· Travel Australia at: www.travelaustralia.com.au
· Totaltravel.com at: www.totaltravel.com.au
· Getaway at: ninemsn.com.au/getaway
Peregrine Adventures at: www.peregrine.net.au

Airline & Rail Websites
Qantas at: www.qantas.com.au
Virgin at: www.virginblue.com.au
Jetstar at: www.jetstar.com.au
Webjet at: www.webjet.com.au
Tiger at: www.tiger.com.au
Flight Centre at : www.flightcentre.com.au
Tiger Airways at: www.tiger.com.au
I want that flight at: www.iwantthatflight.com.au
Airfares Flights at: http://airfaresflights.com.au
Rail Australia at www.railaustralia.com.au
Eurail at: www.eurail.com

Cheap Accommodation & Airfares
Wotif at www.wotif.com
Travel mate at: www.travelmate.com.au
Need It Now at: www.needitnow.com.au
Quickbeds at: www.quickbeds.com.au
Rates to go at: www.ratestogo.com.au
Best rates at: www.bestrates.com.au
Standby rates at: www.standbyrates.com.au

Tourism Commissions
Australian Tourism Commission at: www.australia.com
South Australian Shorts at: www.shorts.com.au
Victoria Tourism at: www.visitvictoria.com.au
New South Wales Tourism at: www.visitnsw.com.au
Queensland Tourism at: http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/
Northern Territory Tourism at: http://en.travelnt.com/
Tasmania – Discover Tasmania at: www.discovertasmania.com.au/home/index.cfm
Western Australia Tourism at: www.westernaustralia.com
Australian Capital Territory at www.canberratourism.com.au

Overseas travel
Smart Traveller at: http://www.smarttraveller.gov.au/
Currency Exchange at : www.xe.com
Oanda.com at: www.oanda.com/convert/cheatsheet

Travel Doctor at: www.traveldoctor.com.au

10 Technologies in 90 minutes websites

1. Google Maps and Street View
Google Maps at: http://maps.google.com.au
Google Street View http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ (Find out more)

2. Video & Photo sharing websites
YouTube at: www.youtube.com
Vimeo at: www.vimeo.com
Google video at: http://video.google.com
Commoncraft at: www.commoncraft.com (Videos on technology – highly recommended)
FlickR at: www.flickr.com
Smugmug at: www.smugmug.com
Picasa at: www.picasa.google.com (Photo Imaging and management software)
GIMP at: www.gimp.org (Photo Imaging software)

3. Wikis
Wikipeadia at: www.wikipedia.org (Wiki)
PBwiki at: www.pbwiki.com (Wiki Hosting website)
Wikispaces at: www.wikispaces.com (Wiki Hosting website)


4.Voice over IP
Skype at: www.skype.com (Voip supplier)

5. Social networking
MySpace at: www.myspace.com
Facebook at: www.facebook.com
Linkedin at: www.linkedin.com (Employment Social Networking site)

6. Micro-blogging
Twitter at: www.twitter.com

7. Cloud computing (working in the cloud)
Google Documents at: http://doc.google.com (Software website)
Dropbox at: www.dropbox.com (Document management software)
Zoho at: www.zoho.com (Application software website – free word processing, spreadsheets, presentations software & storage)
Zoho Documents at: http://docs.zoho.com (Word document and storage website)

8. Ebooks & eBook Readers
Amazon at: www.amazon.com (eBook site)
Project Gutenburg at http://www.gutenberg.org (eBook site)
eReader blogsite: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/
Lendle at: http://lendle.me (eBook lending site)
Booklending at: www.booklending.com (eBook leading site)

9. RSS Feeds
Google Reader at: www.google.com/reader (RSS Reader)


10. Blog websites.
Blogger at: www.blogger.com (Create a blog page)
Word Press at: www.wordpress.com (Create a blog page)

Search Me Now at: http://searchmenow.blogspot.com/ (Malcolm’s Blog)
• Links to websites on family history, travel, health. Search tips
Lifehacker at: www.lifehacker.com.au (Technology Blog)
Seth Godin at http://sethgodin.typepad.com (Marketing Blog)
Craftzine at: http://blog.craftzine.com (Craft Blog)
Frockwriter at: www.frockwriter.com (Fashion Blog)
Gizmodo at: www.gizmodo.com.au (Technology/Gadget Blog)
eReader blog at: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/ (eReader Blog)
Google Blog search at: http://blogsearch.google.com/ (Search Engine Blog)
Technorati at http://www.technorati.com/ (Search Engine Blog)
Search engine blog at: http://www.searchengineblog.com
Search Engine watch at: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/ (Search Engine Blog)

Health on the Internet - Australian websites

Australian Health & Medical websites

General Health
Better Health www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
Health Insite Australia http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/
South Australian Department of Health http://www.health.sa.gov.au/
Child & Youth Health www.cyh.sa.gov.au
Drs Reference Site http://www.drsref.com.au/
Human Services Finder www.hsfinder.sa.gov.au

Health Search Engines
Health on the Net Foundation http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Hunt/advanced.html
Gateway http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
Vivisimo clusterMED http://demos.vivisimo.com/clustermed

Allergy and Asthma
Asthma Australia www.asthma.org.au
National Asthma Campaign www.nationalasthma.org.au
Allergy Net Australia www.allergynet.com.au

Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Association of Australia www.alzheimers.org.au

Arthritis
Arthritis Foundation of Australia QLD www.arthritis.org.au
Arthritis www.arthritis.com

Cancer
Cancer Council of Australia www.cancer.org.au
NSW Cancer Council www.nswcc.org.au
OvCa Australia www.ovca.org
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia Inc. www.posaa.asn.au
Prostate Cancer Website www.prostatehealth.org.au

Cardiac and Stroke Information
Heart Foundation of Australia www.heartfoundation.com.au
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome www.sads.org.au
National Stroke Institute www.strokefoundation.com.au

Disorders
Australian Speak Easy Association www.speakeasy.org.au

Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disorders
Australian Crohn's & Colitis Association www.acca.net.au
Continence Foundation of Australia www.contfound.org.au
Diabetes Australia www.diabetesaustralia.com.au
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation www.jdrf.org.au
Hepatitis C Council of Victoria www.hepcvic.org.au
Hepatitis C Council of Queensland www.hepatitisc.asn.au
Australian Hepatitis Council www.hepatitisaustralia.com
Lymphoedema Association of Australia www.lymphoedema.org.au

Drugs and Alcohol
Australian Drug Foundation www.adf.org.au

Endocrine Disorders
Thyroid Australia www.thyroid.org.au

Eyes
Glaucoma Australia www.glaucoma.org.au
AMD Alliance International www.amdalliance.org

Genetics
Genetics Support Council WA http://geneticsupportcouncil.org.au

Indigenous
Australian Indigenous Health Info Net www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/

Men’s Health
Men’s Health & Wellness Assoc QLD http://www.mhwaq.org.au/
Andrology Australia www.andrologyaustralia.org

Mental Health
Mental Health Co-ordinating Council www.mhcc.org.auSane Australia www.sane.org
Schizophrenia Fellowship www.sfnsw.org.au

Neurological Disorders
Australian Quadriplegic Association www.spinalcordinjuries.com.au
Epilepsy Association of Australia www.epilepsy.org.au
Epilepsy Foundation of Australia www.epinet.org.au
Multiple Sclerosis Australia www.msaustralia.org.au
Muscular Dystrophy Association www.mda.org.au
Motor Neurone Disease Association www.mnd.asn.au
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Queensland
www.asbha.org.au

Respiratory
Australian Lung Foundation www.lungnet.org.au

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations www.afao.org.au

Women's Health
Australian Menopause Society www.menopause.org.au
Endometriosis Association (Victoria) www.endometriosis.org.au
Women's Centre for Health Matters www.wchm.org.au
Australian Breastfeeding Association www.breastfeeding.asn.au
Jean Hailes Foundation www.jeanhailes.org.au/
Women’s Health Victoria www.whv.org.au


Overseas Medical websites
HealthFinder www.healthfinder.gov
MEDLINEPlus at: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
PubMed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Google Tip No3

Site or Domain Searching in Google

site:
Use the syntax (prefix) site: in Google to refine your search to search all or parts of a web address. The site: prefix can then be used in combination with other words or phrases to search for those words or phrases but ONLY within the part of the web address (domain name) as specified by site: prefix.

Search within a website using the site: prefix
For example, you can search within a whole website, the following search will search for web pages on “global warming” in 2008 BUT only on the ABC’s website.

"global warming" 2008 site:abc.net.au


The following search will search for the phrase “drivers test” BUT only on the RAA’s website. Click on the image below to see the results.

"drivers test" site:raa.net


Search by websites type & country
You can use the site: syntax to search by website type & country. The following search will search for the phrase “global warming” BUT only Australian Government websites. Notice how ALL of the websites are Australian government web sites with information on “global warming”.

"global warming" site:gov.au


The following search will search for the phrase “global warming” BUT only Australian Education websites. Click on the image below to see the search results. Notice how ALL of the websites are education web sites with information on “global warming”.

"global warming" site:edu.au

Search by country
Use the site: syntax and limit your search to the part of the web address that defines the country code. For example the following search will search for “rocky mountains” and the keywords train & travel but ONLY in Canadian web sites. ca is the country code for Canada.

"rocky mountains" train travel site:ca