Using Netscape for the Second Time
Week 2
September 5, 1995
Reynilda Cortez
Psychology 409
Dr. Leon James
How much negative emotions did it cost you?
Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very much
This week's rating= 8
How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for
you?
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quite likely
This week's rating= 10
How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's task
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very satisfied1
This week's rating= 8
How hard did you try to get throught this week's tasks?
Gave up easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refuse to give up
This weeks rating= 9
According to my ratings I had a very hard time doing the task. I
spent atleast seven hours total doing this weeks assignment. We needed
to explore functions that I never heard of or seen before.
I noticed a lot of differences within the subtasks. If they
were similar I don't think that I would have ran into so many problems
this week. Here are just some of the problems that I encountered.
The first task was to look for the Bookmarker. I had a hard time
looking for it. I was searching all over for it in Netscape, and finally
I found it, it was right in front of my face. Don't you hate it when that
happens. I found out that the Bookmarker helps you to put a lot of subjects
together so you will be able to look at it again with out searching for it.
At first I didn't know what I was doing. I pressed Add three
times and when I pressed View there were three Hawaii Home Page on my
Bookmarker. Latter I tried to Add something else in my list. In the box
that says Location I typed my friends address. Then I pressed enter so I
could view his home page. After looking through his Home Page I added it
on to my Bookmarker. I wanted to make sure that it was on so I pressed
View. The new item that was on my list was called "404 not Found". I
clicked on it and there was another list, and my friends list was on
it.
After fooling around with the Bookmarker I noticed that there was
something else listed in it, it was called "lup". I clicked on it and it
gave me LupKei Tong's Home Page. Who is Lupkei Tong? I think someone
must have left "lup"in the Bookmarker.
I got tired of browsing through the different Home Pages so I
continued with the assignment. I looked at the Search Engines and saw the
word Special Query Operator. I clicked on it and it explains that if we
type a specific subject that we are looking for in the text box it will
give us all the information it has about the subject.
In the text box I typed the word California, and it gave too much
information. So I thought that I should be more general and I typed the
word Los Angeles. It was so neat it showed a bunch of things that
happens in Los Angeles. For example, it lists Night Clubs, Discos,
Comedy Clubs, Festivals, and Concerts. It seems to me that Netscape is
like a travel guide. It is so convenient to look through the Netscape. If
a person is interested in knowing more about a certain place to
visit I think they should browse through the Netscape to get more
information about the place. It's very helpful.
I was curious in the subtitle Crusin LA so I
clicked on it. Then
it gave me another list, and out of that list I picked Disney Studio, and
finally my last pick was NewsFlash. By this point I decided to send this
"NewsFlash" to myself thorough e-mail.
I looked under file and there was Mail Document. I clicked on it
and it said "You must specify a valid e-mail address for yourself in the
preference window(under the "options" menu". So I went onto the options
menu and typed my address and name. When I finished putting my
informaiton in I pressed the okay button. At this point I was thinking
that the document was being sent.
While waiting for the document I started on the other part of our
assignment. Now I was going to try and save and image. I found and
image then I went to options and onto Save As. I had no idea what to do
and I couldn't work on it anymore because I need to go to class.
So I returned back to the CLIC lab on Sunday afternoon. I first
checked my e-mail. There were no documents sent to me. Boy, was I
upset. I started all over again. I selected a document and tried to
sent it again. I went onto options and typed my email address and my
name. This time I didn't write anything on the mail server because
"uhunix4.its.hawaii.edu", was already on it. This is what I should have
typed in the first time. I pressed the okay button and them I went under
files so I could mail the document. When I clicked on it I typed my
e-mail address because it asked for the address that I'm sending it to.
Then I pressed Send. Nothing occured. So I pressed Quote Document.
This time there was an hour glass. I thought to myself that it was
probably being sent. Well, twenty mintues has past and there were no
changes, I checked my e-mail and nothing was sent. So I tried it again.
I am sure that I sent if the same way. I noticed one difference tough,
when I pressed Send the hour glass appeared for a short while. Then I
checked my e-mail again and there it was. What a relief!
I went back to Netscape and the Home Page was on the screen.
There were lots of images on this page so I decided to sa it. I clicked
on Save As under File. I gave it the name psyweek2. Then I pressed Open
File and typed psyweek2. Netscapes Home page was on, but the only
problem was that the pictures were missing. The pictures has been
replaced with question marks.
So I tried again. I don't know why I keep doing the same thing.
I know that it does not work. I noticed that this was my fossilized
error. I think that I countinously do the same think because it's the
only way I know how to do it. I think that I should be more observant.
I started to explore all of the functions again, this time I
notice the word Image and it is not highlighted. I went under options
and clicked on Auto Load Images and now the box with the word Image was
highlighted. Itried to save an image again, this time the pictures
turned into different shapes. I stopped doing that for awhile
and read the instructions carefully it said "Try to save and image in gif
file". So I clicked on save as again. This time I looked at the
different things in the box. I saw a file that said gif onit. I opened
it, but it had agreyish color to it. I went to open files and then to
all files and it gave me a list of names in gif. I thought that I had to
save an image on this file gif. Well tried and I tried, I was not
successful.
It was already five-o-clock. I was too frustrated to go on. So
I left the CLIC lab hoping that I'll have more time on Tuesday. Well, I
was wrong I did not have anymore time. I was to busy tring to create my
homepage.
Week 2 assignment was much harder that the last assignment.
Doing the first part of the assignment was much easier that the others.
I thought that the Bookmarker can be very useful for future use. The
hardest part was sending a document through e-mail and saving and image.
I thought that I got kind of close to saving an image, but I did not have
enough time. I hope I don't run into too much problems for the next
assingment. I think the most important thing that I shouldn't do is
to repeat the same mistakes over and over agian.