New Tools and Terms 2005

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New Tools and Terms2005

• Professor Mark Sabet
• C S U L A
• 2005

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Google TV

• Several companies are creating TV Video Search
  Capabilities Microsoft, Yahoo
• To build the service, the company is recording
  live tv shows and indexing the related
  closed-caption text of the programming (Library)

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Searching Television Video
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A search engine for the brain

• Google Desktop Search
• Still in beta phase
• http//desktop.google.com/
• AOL, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Yahoo are all
  developing similar products
• GDS downloads and install in minutes

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Google Desktop Search
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What does GDS do?

• GDS examines every file on your hard drive (20GB)
• Index tool
• Takes an hour on most PCs
• After indexing, double click the GDS tool
• Just like Google.com on your personal hard drive

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What does it do?

• Google Desktop Search is how our brains would
  work if we had photographic memories.
• It's a desktop search application that provides
  full text search over your email, computer files,
  chats, and the web pages you've viewed

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To Run GDS

• Task Tray Icon
• Google Search Engine

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Search Results
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Instant Messenger Chat
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See Previous Versions
You can see previous versions of web pages and
files by clicking on the "cached" link under each
Google Desktop Search result.
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Searching

• Outlook Email Outlook Express
• AOL IM
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Web History
• Secure Web Pages (Bank statements, E-commerce)

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Security Flaw

• GDS stores its complete index in one convenient
  location
• No encryption
• No password
• A Hackers dream come true
• Another similar product is Copernicus but does
  not do secure web sites

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GMail (Google Mail)

• Search, don't sort.Use Google search to find the
  exact message you want, no matter when it was
  sent or received.
• Don't throw anything away.1000 megabytes of free
  storage so you'll never need to delete another
  message.

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Other GMail features

• Free POP access-Download your messages. Read them
  offline. Use your Blackberry or Outlook or just
  the web
• Messages in context

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Whats New in Terminology?

• Augmented Reality Eyeglasses and Displays

Augmented-reality displays will overlay
computer-generated graphics onto the real world
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Blogosphere

• The Blogosphere consists of people linking their
  blogs to another blog
• Geeklogs
• Over a million Americans have blogversed
• Blogging is changing the media and political
  scene
• Funny Blog www.iworkwithfools.com

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Shake up the Political Scene
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News for Nerds
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Question Facts
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Plan your Next Vacation
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Need a Sports Fix?
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Phishing (brand spoofing)

• The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely
  claiming to be an established legitimate
  enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into
  surrendering private information that will be
  used for identity theft.
• The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site
  where they are asked to update personal
  information, such as passwords and credit card,
  social security, and bank account numbers, that
  the legitimate organization already has.

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Phishing Example
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Phishing for Comments?