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Open 2 tabs in Firefox and enter live.com in both of them.
In the first tab enter this 2 words: blue light
In the second tab enter "blue light" in quotation marks and search.
Do you see any difference in the amounts of the search results? Why the difference?
Open 2 tabs in Firefox and enter google.co.in in both of them.
In the first tab enter this 2 words: blue light
In the second tab enter "blue light" in quotation marks and search.
Do you see any difference in the amounts of the search results? Why the difference?
Open 3 tabs in Firefox
Do a first search with the keywords: open source
How many results you have in the different search engines?
Do a second search by adding the word auroville into the search bar: open source auroville
How many results you have in the different search engines?
Do a third search by adding the words blue light into the search bar: open source auroville blue light
How many results you have in the different search engines?
Do a fourth search by adding a minus symbol 
in front of the word auroville : open source -auroville blue light
See how this affects your search. What does the dash (minus symbol) do? For what is this useful?
Check google, yahoo and msn (live search) for advertisement. What do think about the advertisement?
Does Google, Yahoo. MSN search offer advanced search options? If so where do you find them?
Type your passport name, Auroville name and the word Auroville into Google and see if the search results reveal information about you.
How do I get material from the web to use for my own work without getting into trouble with copyright laws? Do a search on the Internet. Try as keyword copyleft.
What is the difference between copyright and copyleft?
You might want to take the time and go once more through the lesson to recall what you learned.
How many seconds are there in one week? Use Google ...
What is the zoom function in Firefox? What does Ctrl + 0 do when you use the zoom function?
How do you launch the Find function?
What is the default location for your downloads and how do you change it?
Try to download a few wallpapers from wallpapers
Save a bookmark
Open Firefox and load a page of your choice. What if you want to save this link? Try to bookmark this link.
Tabs and tabbed browsing
At first glance, they look like little labels living above the site you're currently visiting. But they are a brilliant way to browse multiple sites at once. Simple and easy, you can think of them as the electronic version of a well kept filing cabinet, with the tabs as the dividers and the sites as the content kept in folders. Each new site appears as a new tab (not a new window) and can be accessed in one click.
Open a fresh Firefox window.
Now open one tab (Ctrl + t), click on it and enter auroville.org.in. Press enter.
Repeat this step with yahoo.com , wiki.auroville.org.in and bbc.co.uk
By now you should have 4 tabs open.
Go to any of those 4 tabs and look at the website. Then drag one tab onto your bookmarks toolbar bar and drop it there. What happens?
Repeat this with all the other sites.
Then delete all bookmarks from the personal address bar (try the right click!)
Now go with the right click on your personal address bar and make a folder called daily
Go to each tab and bookmark each site this time inside the folder. If you have done that successfully close all open tabs.
Now go to your folder and open the links you want. Close the tabs afterwards. Can you open all links at once? How?
Close all tabs and type bbc.co.uk or yahoo.com into the remaining one. Then open different links from this websites with the middle click (the wheel of the mouse) of your mouse (nowadays often the wheel). This is an efficient way to browse.
Close all tabs and type google into the remaining one. Enter the keywords auroville community and search. Then open different links with the middle click of your mouse (nowadays often the wheel). This is an efficient way to search. Use Ctrl + f to search for the word community on the different web sites. Highlight them all.
How do you proceed from here? How do you evaluate the search results?
Be Careful
Everybody can design and host (publish) a web page. Can you trust the Internet?
Browsing History
Close all open Firefox windows and reopen a new fresh one. Press Ctrl + h . What happens?
Go to History on the top in the menu bar. Then go to Show all History. Is that useful? What can you do with the History?
Manage your bookmarks
Under Bookmarks go to Organise Bookmarks. Have a look! What can you do here?
Firefox start-up page
Try to avoid doing the homework in the last minute but rather do them in time and email them to bluelight.training@gmx.com. Please do not use the bluelight@auroville.org.in address.
This gives us time to look into what you did and give you some feedback. It is a requirement to do the homework to be able to follow the classes.
You find all lessons and homework here
Here we go again. Now repeat the phising test and see for yourself. Go to http://www.sonicwall.com/phishing/ and follow the instructions to do the Phishing test. How many of the 10 examples could you identify correctly this time?
What does the key F11 do in Firefox? Press it twice and see what happens ...
How can you change the default setting in Firefox for the download location?
Name two examples where a minus sign in front of one of the keywords is useful and verify this in Google and Yahoo.
If you accidentally close a tab, you can reopen it in one click. How? (Tip: Check under History)
What do these letters at the end of the domain name mean: .org .edu .com .gov .mil .info .co.in etc? Why is it useful to pay attention to them?
How do you delete a bookmark in Firefox?
You might want to take the time and go once more through the lesson to recall what you learned.
When you use Google to search something on the result page you see under every search result a link called Similar pages . Try this function. Is this useful for you?