Me, Myself and ICT.

* Instant messaging

Instant messaging is a fairly new way of communication that has increased in popularity recently. Using it you can send and receive messages in an extra window on your desktop screen.

* Mobile Phone

Mobile phones are a very communication device for sending and receiving information. They are a fairly new piece of technology. You can send and receive calls, sms messages, pictures, animated pictures and even videos. In the UK there are 24 million mobile phone users and over 300,000 are children. I have and use a mobile phone, which helps me a lot with communicating with my friends and I also use it for games on the move. There are a lot of different types of mobile phone some of the main ones are Nokia and Samsung and Motorola. WAP is a new technology that allows you to go on the Internet on your phone. My phone is a Nokia 3510i which has WAP on it I don't use that much because the quality of the pages are not that good I might aswell use the computer at home. With my phone I have polyphonic ringtones on it and colour pictures aswell so I am quiet satisfied with it.

* Games consoles

Game consoles can be very entertaining if you like the game you're playing on. There have been a lot of different types of game consoles such as the Playstation(tm) and the Playstation 2(tm)from Sony and the X-Box(tm) from Microsoft. There has also been advances in the hand held consoles the Gameboy(tm) was a big revelation but now we have Gameboy Advance(tm) and Gameboy SP (tm) with even better graphics.

* Internet(WWW)

The Internet is a network of millions of different computers. The web is a way of using some of these computers to share files and web pages. These web pages are owned and managed universities, schools, government departments, companies, and private individuals. Each website has pages of information that are stored on computers or servers all around the world. The Internet was made as a military research project in the US in the 1980s. The Internet is very useful for all sorts of reasons such as finding out information communicating and even doing your weekly shopping. But it can also be very dangerous e.g. viruses, hackers, and pedophiles also use chat rooms. When you make a website, you will use a language called hypertext markup language (HTML) which is very complicated to read. The Internet is available to me at home, at school, and at the public library. I use it for such things as homework, to find out information and for pleasure use. I don't have a broadband Internet connection but it fast enough. When I use the Internet I use a piece of software called Internet explorer that is a type of browser another browser I use is called Netscape navigator. A browser allows you to looks at WebPages. When you are using the browser you can type in a sites Uniform resource locator (URL) or the address. Your home page is set on your browser and you can always go back to you home page by clicking on the button on the task bar. When you set up an Internet account you need to find a suitable Internet service provider (ISP).

* Broadband

Broadband is a quite new technology that is used for accessing the Internet. It allows more information to come through your phone line, cable TV or satellite dish at once. Broadband is a lot faster than a normal internet connection.

* TV

The transmission of visual images of moving and stationary objects, generally with accompanying sound, as electromagnetic waves and the reconversion of received waves into visual images. An electronic apparatus that receives electromagnetic waves and displays the reconverted images on a screen. The integrated audible and visible content of the electromagnetic waves received and converted by such an apparatus. The industry of producing and broadcasting television programs.

* CD player

* Video player

* DVD Player

* Digital TV and Digital PLUS

* P2P (peer to peer file sharing)

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Created by TMcHugh