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• Introduction
• About This Book
• How to Use This Book
• Who Are You?
• How This Book Is Organized
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Part I: Getting Started with the Internet
• Chapter 1: What’s So Great about the Internet?
• So What Is the Internet?
• What’s All the Hoopla?
• Anybody can access it
• It’s politically, socially, and religiously correct
• The Net advantage
• Okay, What Next?
• Chapter 2: Is the Internet Safe? Viruses, Spyware, Spam, and Other Yucky Stuff
• Privacy: Who’s Who and What They Can Tell about You
• Who is the party to whom I am speaking?
• Safety first
• Phishing for inphormation
• Don’t take the bait
• Web bugs track the ads you read
• Cookies can be good
• We know where you are
• Security: How People Can Take Over Your PC
• Viruses arrive by email
• Worms come right over the Net
• Spyware arrives via websites
• Pop-up browser windows pop up all over the place
• What’s the secret word, Harry?
• Spam, Bacon, Spam, Eggs, and Spam
• Why it’s called spam
• Why it’s so bad
• What you can do about it
• Safety: How to Keep Yourself and Your Family Safe
• Chapter 3: Kids and the Internet
• Really Cool Ways Kids Use the Net
• So-So Ways Kids Use the Net
• Not-So-Good Ways Kids Use the Net
• Truly Brain-Dead Things Kids Should Never Do
• The Internet and Little Kids
• Surf Safe
• Sell, Sell, Sell!
• Who’s Online?
• The Internet in Schools
• A Few Useful Websites
• Part II: Internet, Here I Come!
• Chapter 4: Assembling Your Gear and Climbing on the Net
• What Kind of Device Do You Need?
• Hey, I don’t even have a computer!
• Yup, I have this old, beige box in the closet
• Yup, I got a brand-new BitBucket 2015
• Yup, I’m getting a tablet such as an iPad
• Yup, I got this little smartphone
• The Types of Internet Connections
• Internet via Smartphones and Tablets
• Getting Wi-Fi with Your Latté
• Wi-Fi can be free, or not
• Connecting to Wi-Fi from a tablet or phone
• Connecting to Wi-Fi from a laptop
• Airports, hotels, and beyond
• Wi-Fi and email don’t mix
• Speedy Connections: DSL and Cable Internet
• What is broadband, anyway?
• What’s in an account?
• Cable and DSL modems
• How your computer connects to the modem
• Getting your cable Internet hooked up
• Getting your DSL hooked up
• Wires galore!
• After the DSL or cable Internet installer
• Checking your DSL or cable connection
• I’m In!
• Essential Software to Keep Your System Safe
• Walling out the bad guys
• No viruses need apply
• Detecting spyware
• Our Favorite Internet Setup
• You’re Connected — Now What?
• Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Own Network or Wi-Fi Hotspot
• Just One Computer for Internet Access? Naah
• First, Make a LAN
• The box in the middle — a hub, switch, or router
• Setting up a Router
• Configuring routers for DSL connections that require a username and password
• Connecting your LAN to the modem
• Wiring Your Computers into a LAN
• Forget the Wires — Go Wi-Fi!
• Set a password, for Pete’s sake!
• Making the Wi-Fi connection
• Shortcut setup with WPS
• Home and Office Setup
• Chapter 6: Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web
• What Is the World Wide Web?
• Linking web pages
• Finding the page you want
• Where’s that page?
• Browsing to Points Unknown
• Web Surfing with Your Browser
• Getting around
• Backward, ho!
• Going places
• A good place to start browsing
• What not to click
• This page looks funny or out of date
• Get me outta here
• Viewing Lots of Web Pages at the Same Time
• Wild window mania
• Tab dancing
• Browsing from Your Smartphone or Tablet
• Getting and Installing a Browser
• Getting the program
• Running a new browser for the first time
• Chapter 7: Taking Your Browser for a Spin
• Saving Stuff from the Web
• Saving text from a page
• Saving an image
• Printing pages
• A Few of Your Favorite Things
• Bookmarking with Firefox
• Creating one-click bookmarks in Firefox
• Storing favorites in Internet Explorer
• Creating one-click bookmarks in Internet Explorer
• Adding web pages to your Windows taskbar
• Bookmarking (including one-click) with Chrome
• One click and drag bookmarking with Safari
• Filling In Forms
• Knowing Where to Start
• Specifying where Firefox starts
• Configuring Internet Explorer start and home pages
• Telling Chrome what to display at start-up
• Setting Safari’s home page
• Who Can Remember All Those Passwords?
• Storing passwords in Firefox
• Storing passwords in Internet Explorer
• Storing passwords in Chrome
• Storing passwords in Safari
• Cookies Are (Usually) Your Friends
• Burning cookies in Firefox
• Exploring cookies in Internet Explorer
• Cookies and Chrome
• Safari with cookies
• Where Have You Been?
• Your browsing history
• Oh, nowhere, really
• Blocking Pop-Up Windows
• No pop-ups in Firefox
• Blocking pop-ups in Internet Explorer
• Chrome and pop-ups
• Safari stops pop-ups
• When Browsers Go Bad
• Getting Plugged In with Plug-Ins
• Four essential plug-ins
• How to use plug-ins
• Part III: Hanging Out with Friends Online
• Chapter 8: It’s in the Mail: Sending and Receiving Email
• What’s My Address?
• The domain part
• The username part
• Getting Your Own Mailbox
• Putting it all together
• And I would read my mail how?
• The Web Is a Fine Place to Read Your Email
• Reading webmail
• Sending email with webmail
• Doing Email on Your Smartphone or Tablet
• Setting up your mail program on a phone or tablet
• Reading your email on a phone or tablet
• Sending email on a phone or tablet
• Reading Your Email in a Mail Program
• Mail servers galore
• Some popular mail programs
• Setting up Outlook
• Setting up Apple Mail
• Sending Mail Is Easy
• Mail Coming Your Way
• Reading your messages
• Deleting messages the quick-and-easy way
• To Whom Do I Write?
• Avoiding Viruses, Malware, and Other Mailborne Annoyances
• Chapter 9: Putting Your Mail in Its Place
• A Few Words from the Etiquette Ladies
• Flame off!
• Smile!
• Spam: Kill, Kill, Kill!
• Filtering spam in webmail
• Filtering spam on a phone or tablet
• Filtering spam in Outlook
• Filtering spam in Apple Mail
• Back to You, Sam: Replying to Mail
• Keeping Track of Your Friends
• Who’s who
• Addressing messages the easy way
• Hot Potatoes: Forwarding Mail
• Cold Potatoes: Saving Mail
• Filing messages in webmail systems
• Filing messages on a smartphone or tablet
• Filing messages in Outlook
• Filing messages in Apple Mail
• Sending Files by Email
• Attachment can be good
• Forming attachments
• Getting attached
• Chapter 10: Getting Social with Facebook and Google+
• Facebook Isn’t the Only Social Network
• Getting Started with Facebook
• Facebook in your browser
• Facebook in your pocket
• Expanding Your Profile
• Connecting with your friends
• Groups of friends
• Do you want the whole world to see this?
• An ounce of prevention
• Don’t Miss a Thing That Happens
• Updating your status
• Responding to and Arguing with Your Friends
• Keeping an eye on the News Feed
• Sending messages
• Hiding and unfriending
• Google Goes Social with Google+
• Hanging out on Google
• Chapter 11: Tweeting about Your Life
• Getting Started
• Twitter in your browser
• Twitter on your phone or tablet
• Reading Tweets and Following Twitterers
• Searching the universe of tweets
• What’s with all this weird punctuation?
• Hey, I like this person’s tweets
• How to Not Become Overwhelmed by All Those Tweets
• Lists of your Twitter friends
• Saving your searches
• Preparing to Tweet
• Your Twitter profile
• Private tweeting
• How to Tweet
• Hashtags identify keywords
• Including a web address in your tweet
• Replying and retweeting
• I’m talking only to you: direct messages
• Let’s all tweet at the same time
• Getting Serious about Twitter
• Chapter 12: Typing and Talking Online
• One-to-One Text Chat
• Chatting via Facebook
• Text chat via Google
• Abbreviations and Smileys for Chat
• Adding Voices and Faces
• Say what? Hooking up the sound
• I see you!
• Hanging out in Google Hangouts
• Good Viber-ations
• Voice and video chat using Skype
• Other Skype features
• Around the Virtual Town Pump
• Participating in Facebook groups
• I read it on Reddit
• Mailing lists: Are you sure that this isn’t junk mail?
• Posting to message boards
• Look Who’s Chatting
• Where is everyone chatting?
• Who am I?
• Type or talk?
• Getting used to chat culture
• Part IV: The Web Is Full of Cool Stuff
• Chapter 13: Needles and Haystacks: Finding Almost Anything Online
• Your Basic Search Strategy
• Search, Ho!
• Google, our favorite search engine
• Refining your search
• Even more Google options
• Bing!
• Browsing with Directories
• Yahoo! for directories
• For facts, try Wikipedia first
• The Usual Suspects: Other Useful Search Sites
• Finding People
• Looking for email addresses
• Googling for people
• Using other people-search sites
• We’re from Your Browser, and We’re Here to Help You
• Too Many Toolbars
• Chapter 14: Music and Video on the Web
• Seven Ways to Get Media and One Way Not To
• Receiving media as a gift
• Borrowing media by streaming it
• Buying media
• Playing media from CDs or DVDs you already own
• Subscribing to media services
• Sharing media
• Renting media
• Stealing media — um, no
• What Are You Listening With?
• iTunes
• Windows Media Player
• Okay, How about Some Music?
• Copying music from your own CDs
• Organizing your music with iTunes
• Making playlists
• Subscribing to Podcasts
• Subscribing to podcasts on the web
• Subscribing to podcasts with iTunes
• Playing Music and Podcasts
• Listening to Internet Radio
• Tuning in to a station
• Making your own station
• Watching Movies on the Web
• The YouTube thing
• Putting the “You” in YouTube
• Watching movies
• Watching TV
• Chapter 15: More Shopping, Less Dropping
• Shopping Online: Pros and Cons
• The Credit Card Question
• Paying at the Store
• How Little Do You Want to Pay?
• Up, Up, and Away
• The theory of airline tickets
• More about online airlines
• Even More Places to Shop
• Auctions and used stuff
• Craigslist
• Books, music, and more
• Clothes
• Computers
• Food
• More Opinions Than You Ever Imagined
• Travel and food
• Vroom, vroom
• Real Estate
• Real estate, temporary version
• Questions and Answers
• Chapter 16: Banking, Bill Paying, and Investing Online
• Going to the Bank Without Ever Leaving Home
• Transferring money between bank accounts
• Paying bills online
• Taking advantage of other online bank services
• Checking out a few recommended banks
• Trying out combo banking
• Dealing with Credit Cards
• Pay for Your Stuff with PayPal
• Send Money to Your Pals
• Investing Your Money Online
• Mutual funds
• Stockbrokers
• Portfolio tracking
• Budgeting Tools
• Part V: Putting Your Own Stuff on the Web
• Chapter 17: Making a Splash Online
• Ways to Go Public on the Web
• Say “Cheese!”
• Organizing Your Photos, Too
• Sharing Documents and Calendars
• Creating a Google document
• Sharing the wealth
• Making and sharing an online calendar
• Looking beyond Google Docs
• Plain Old Files in the Cloud
• Making Your Own Website
• Page creators abound
• What do you say?
• Setting Up an Online Shop
• Chapter 18: Blogging: The World Reads Your Diary
• What’s in a Blog?
• How to read a blog
• More photos than text
• Commenting on blogs
• Curated super-blogs
• Subscribing to blogs
• Writing Your Own Blog
• Finding a place for your blog
• Going postal
• Illustrating your blog
• Blogging in song
• Part VI: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 19: Ten Fun Things You Can Do Online
• Share Pictures and Videos with Your Friends and Family
• Watch Movies, TV, and Ads
• Listen to Current and Classic Radio Programs
• Play Checkers or Bridge
• Play Lots More Online Games
• Find Out What Your Stuff Is Worth
• Build Your Own Jumbo Jet
• Visit Art Museums around the World
• Tour the Earth
• Tour the Solar System
• Build Your Own World
• Read the Comics
• Share Your Screen with a Friend
• Chapter 20: Ten Worthwhile Things to Do Online
• Feed the Hungry
• Support a Charity While You Shop
• Find Charities That Don’t Waste Money
• Become a Microfinancier or a Philanthropist
• Educate Yourself
• Edit an Encyclopedia
• Digitize Old Books
• Search for Extraterrestrial Life or Cure Cancer
• Mentor a Teenager or Young Adult Online
• Adopt a Kid
• About the Authors
• Cheat Sheet