An
email allows you to communicate with anyone in the world as long as they an
internet connection and have an email account. Many popular email websites are Hotmail
and G-mail both these allow you to send messages as well as documents as
attachments. The user that is using the software is an able to send the recipient
as many messages as they want to as well as send the emails for free as long as
they have the other person’s individual address. Below is a picture that shows
the basics an email works. Also with the introduction of 3G people can now read
their emails when there not at their computer e.g. smartphones.
IRC(Internet relay chat)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is online instant
communication chat which is done over the Internet. The main design of IRC’s is
to for users to chat openly to each other via an internet connection also this can be multiple people chatting at one time
across large distances for example three people could be in a chat and all in different
countries. Users can join the conversation and send messages to it, which shows
to all the others users communicating in the same conversation. It is not only
used for socializing but can also be used in work environments for example for
a meeting and work conversations about specific work related tasks. The good
thing about IRC is that they can also be accessed anywhere as long as they have
an internet connection and the login credentials an example is talking to their
boss via internet relay chat at home while the boss is in the office. MSN is a
good example of this where they have add the person and cannot be added by any
random stranger however there is discussion boards which can have negative
affect and is discussed below.
Discussions boards
A
discussions board is basically a website where a particular topic is presented
and then people can discuss any questions and submit their own ideas. An
example of this is Yahoo answers where someone will put out a question so that
any person for searches for something similar will be able to answer the
question or submit their views. However the only problem with this is that as
anyone can post on the page means that people can post links to illegal
websites or give people viruses. However the good thing about using discussion
boards if you wanted to ask a question about something that would not be able
to gather information about such as an experience someone has had people would
be able to post information that may not be able to found on the websites so
can be very helpful to some people. However this could have a negative effect
of the person as there could put hateful messages or wrong advice and so on.
Remote access
The basic job of remote desktop is it allows a user to enter
into another computer on the user’s network. It allows to access data and
applications using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A basic example of this
is if a teacher wants to plan a lesson plan but they saved a file on their user
area at school they will be able to log onto that school network without
physically being at the school which is a major advantage. However this is only
available on professional and enterprise versions of windows
and other operating systems for this type of remote access software to be available.
Not only can a user access there user area but also they can access servers as
well and can also be accessed thought a phone or tablet. That is an example of
remote access which be over a long distance as long as the IP address is
available however another example which I have personal experienced is where a
teacher has remote access over your personal computer and you can see exactly
what they are doing e.g. showing you how to do something. There is another type
of remote access which is when your computer is being remotely accessed you
cannot see what they are doing, this can also be done to all PC’s in room if
the teacher wants the class to pay attention without being able to access their
computer.
Author- Bradley Mitchell
