Deck 1: A Guided Tour of Hot Technologies

Question 1

You can share slide shows you create using Moblyng.com via _____.

A) e-mail
B) mobile phone
C) social networking sites
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

You could use this program to download to your home computer any YouTube video for free.

A) Moblyng.com
B) Zillow
C) CatchVideo.net
D) StumbleUpon.com

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Using ChaCha, you can use which of the following to find answers to your questions?

A) a cell phone
B) a computer
C) your voice
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

This search engine offers a "safe search" option to prevent minors from coming across adult content.

A) Zillow
B) Cuil
C) Delicious.com
D) ChaCha

Question 5

This Web 2.0 technology lets you access your bookmarks from any computer you use.

A) Delicious.com
B) LinkedIn.com
C) Cuil
D) StumbleUpon.com

Question 6

College students are hired to be guides for this search engine.

A) Delicious.com
B) Cuil
C) ChaCha
D) Zillow

Question 7

This service lists millions of properties, most of which are not for sale.

A) Zillow
B) Moblyng.com
C) StumbleUpon.com
D) Internet Explorer 8.0

Question 8

This social networking site helps you broaden your knowledge by suggesting Web sites based on what you like.

A) LinkedIn.com
B) StumbleUpon.com
C) Web Slices
D) ChaCha

Question 9

Have a question about making your dream job a reality? You can use this service to get an answer from a community of over 25 million professionals.

A) Internet Explorer 8.0
B) LinkedIn.com
C) ChaCha
D) all of the above

Question 10

Internet Explorer 8.0 has a new group of features called ____ that make daily tasks quicker to perform.

A) Web Slices
B) accelerators
C) search engines
D) accelerations

Question 11

Internet Explorer 8.0's Web Slices allow you to keep up to date with online content, including

A) sports scores
B) e-mail
C) weather
D) all of the above

Question 12

This feature of Internet Explorer 8.0 provides an additional level of control by preventing third-party Web sites from tracking your browsing activity with cookies placed in your computer.

A) InPrivate Blocking
B) InPrivate Browsing
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Question 13

This new plug-in makes video and animations play much faster than Flash-type video.

A) CatchVideo.net
B) ChaCha
C) Accelerator
D) Silverlight

Question 14

This is a new breed of Web application that blends two or more Web pages to make a new Web application.

A) mashup
B) blog
C) plug-in
D) accelerator

Question 15

Google's new browser is currently available for free for these operating systems:

A) Windows Vista and Mac
B) Windows Vista and Windows XP
C) Windows XP and Mac
D) Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Mac

Question 16

When you install Chrome you can import the following from Firefox or Internet Explorer:

A) settings
B) bookmarks
C) history
D) all of the above

Question 17

Google Maps helps you get where you want to go by providing you with _____.

A) train schedules
B) bus schedules
C) walking directions
D) all of the above

Question 18

How many documents can you save in your Office Live workspace?

A) no more than 500
B) nearly 10,000
C) around 5,000
D) over 1,000

Question 19

If you are working with a Web address that's too long to use easily, this software will create a shorter link that you can use to automatically send people to the longer address:

A) TinyURL
B) Google Translate
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Question 20

At the Newseum's Web site you can see ____ daily newspaper front pages from around the world in their original, unedited form.

A) over 600
B) 150
C) nearly 500
D) all of the

Question 21

____ has a link to the latest news sites so you can listen to today's top news stories.

A) iSpeech
B) Newseum
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Question 22

____ is a Web site that lets you easily search for reviews about what's great and not so great in different cities.

A) ChaCha.com
B) Yelp.com
C) Newseum.org
D) StumbleUpon.com

Question 23

Your account on PollEverywhere.com is free, but requires the purchase of clickers.

Question 24

Using PollEverywhere.com, poll participants can vote using either their cell phones or their Internet-connected computers.

Question 25

Moblyng.com stocks all types of music you can play on your cell phone during a slide show.

Question 26

There's a small fee for using CatchVideo.net to download a YouTube video to your home computer.

Question 27

The bookmark lists you make using Delicious.com are private and cannot be shared or viewed by others.

Question 28

You can list your home for sale on Zillow.com for free.

Question 29

ChaCha is a way to discover great new Web sites, videos, photos, blogs, and more-all based on your interests.

Question 30

Privacy concerns prevent you from being able to attach a photo to your LinkedIn profile.

Question 31

In Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 you can view accelerators on any page by highlighting text.

Question 32

Cuil is a new online service that help you manage and share music files.

Question 33

You can use Web Slices to track auctions on eBay.

Question 34

You should consider activating the IE 8.0's Visual Search feature when you're using someone else's computer or when you want to order a birthday gift for someone without ruining the surprise.

Question 35

RIAs are desktop applications that act like popular Web applications.

Question 36

Silverlight is being used to display historic books from the British library.

Question 37

Each day CatchVideo.net showcases some of the best Silverlight examples on the Web.

Question 38

Tafiti saves your latest searches whether you create an account or not.

Question 39

Tafiti includes an RSS icon on the carousel so you can see a list of current RSS feeds that apply to the topic you're researching.

Question 40

After you sign up for Twitter, it will check your Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail account to see if your friends are already on Twitter so you can keep in touch.

Question 41

Right now, Technorati boasts 113 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

Question 42

Although blogs are increasingly referred to as citizen media, searches on Technorati rarely result in more up-to-date news than Google.

Question 43

Technorati is a fun, easy way to create and share mashups.

Question 44

Like its competition, Google's new browser has both a search bar and an Address bar.

Question 45

You can use Google Maps in many major cities to plan a public transit trip on subways, buses, and trains in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Question 46

Google has developed software that can convert an entire Web site into another language in seconds.

Question 47

Besides normal text, Google's new translation software can translate words inside of images.

Question 48

Google charges a small, one-time fee to create your personal stock portfolio.

Question 49

Once you've created a portfolio using Google Finance, you can download it directly into Excel.

Question 50

Google PageCreator recently replaced Google Sites, and it lets you create a very nice looking site in minutes without knowing HTML.

Question 51

Using Google Sites, if you and your friends make a page together as a group, everyone can work on the site by adding file attachments and information from other Google applications.

Question 52

You can view the posted documents in your Office Live workspace even if the computer you're using doesn't have Office installed.

Question 53

The abbreviated address that TinyURL generates is less than 20 characters long and the address never expires.

Question 54

Many blogs require their contributors to post links converted into "tiny URL" form.

Question 55

YouSendIt.com posts a file on their server free for one month.

Question 56

You'll need to pay to post files larger than 100 MB on YouSendIt.com.

Question 57

For reasons of national security, Africa has only a few newspapers available through the Newseum's Web site.

Question 58

iSpeech can convert entire Web sites to speech on your mobile device.

Question 59

Yelp has access to Google maps that take you right down to street view.

Question 60

Yelp.com features reviews from some of a city's most well-known critics.

Question 61

When you create an account with PollEverywhere.com, you can store results ____________________ for later use.

Question 62

Using Moblyng.com, you can customize a mobile ____________________ by adding captions, selecting a theme, and picking a background.

Question 63

There are two reasons why you should use CatchVideo.net to capture a video from YouTube instead of just linking to it: (1) the intended YouTube site might not be posted anymore when you go to use the link and (2) you might not have ____________________ to open YouTube.

Question 64

Delicious.com is a social ____________________ service that allows you to tag, save, and share Web pages from a central Web site.

Question 65

Type ____________________ into your cell phone to get answers anywhere at any time using ChaCha.

Question 66

A new search engine named ____________________ is really giving Google some competition.

Question 67

The creator of Zillow also started Expedia and makes money on this site by ____________________.

Question 68

When using ____________________, you can rate each suggested Web Site with the Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down buttons.

Question 69

____________________ is an online network linking more than 25 million professionals from all over the world, representing over 150 industries.

Question 70

Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 has a new group of features called ____________________ that make daily tasks just a click away.

Question 71

____________________ let you subscribe to content directly within a Web page so you can monitor details like scores and weather updates.

Question 72

Internet Explorer 8.0 gives you more privacy and security with a new feature called ____________________.

Question 73

A new plug-in called ____________________ is available to make your viewing experience more interactive and media rich.

Question 74

By clicking ____________________, you can view hundreds of new Silverlight sites from all over the world, with new sites being added each day.

Question 75

Tafiti uses ____________________ to help people use the Web for research projects.

Question 76

The New York Times is calling ____________________ one of the fastest new phenomena on the Internet.

Question 77

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching ____________________.

Question 78

A popular mashup called a ____________________ Mashup was created by Microsoft using the Silverlight plug-in.

Question 79

Google named its new browser ____________________.

Question 80

Chrome features tab ____________________ If a Web page causes a problem and leads to a crash, the crash affects only the tab displaying the page, not all the other tabbed pages and the browser itself.