For practical 3,
Resource 1: entertainment
http://www.onemorelevel.com/
this website provides a lot of free online games, with a lot of different categories, such as, actions, classics, puzzle, etc. the games there some are quite interesting.

Resource 2: news
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/
this website provides a range of business news, the daily market report,
stocks, derivates, etc. This provide businessman with another choice of looking at news online rather then flipping through the newspapers.

Resource 3: business/ marketing
www.shoplah.com/
this website is a Singapore-based distributor that imports and exports fashion apparels and accessories to many countries, which includes tops, dresses, skirts, pants at affordable prices its business involves in retail sales as well as whole sales.

Resource 4: personal
http://www.blogger.com/
this website is an individual blog used by many people as their online diary. They could post anything they want, such as, their daily entries, photos, songs, videos, etc.

Besides that, I have also learnt to create site feed using two of my classmate’s blog link.

Labels: Practical 3

For assignment 1, I have chosen the same topic AGAIN on "Discuss the usage of 2-Factor Authentication in the banking industry."

The same key phrase used: “2FA in banking”, somehow the results I’ve got from the 3 search facilities are a little similar.

Search engine:http://www.altavista.com/ with 174,000 results
URL of the resource:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/specialreports/0,39044853,62020506,00.htm

Meta search engine:http://www.kartoo.com/ with 104,000 results
URL of the resource:
http://www.ocbc.com.sg/personal-banking/2FA/index.shtml

Subject directory:http://www.go.com/ with 206,000 results
URL of the resource:
http://www.uobgroup.com/2FA/b_faq.html#1

Overall, I feel that all three search facilities are about the same. However, I prefer the Meta search engine, kartoo.com; this search facility is unlike the rest which only provides words for the results. Its results page looks something like a mind-map which contains pictures, a phrase. It more pleasant to the eye as it is not so wordy.

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Hi everyone, for my 2nd practical on my UIR lesson, I have chosen the usage of 2-Factor Authentication in the banking industry as my research topic. This topic is somehow related to my diploma, Financial Business Informatics.

Using google as my search facility and 2-Factor Authentication as my keyword,
I have found the following 4 website with a combination of different types.

Organization:
Usually talks about the company and the products they offered.
http://www.ocbc.com/personal-banking/2FA/2fa.shtml
This website is the OCBC Bank official website which uses 2FA for its internet and mobile banking. It gives a definition of what 2FA is about, why it is secure and the convenience of using 2FA.

http://www.2fa.com/
This website shows the different types of 2FA software products available

Subject-based:
This sites usually provides definition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication
It gives a definition about 2FA and the use of 2FA.

Personal:
Posts about individual’s opinion, information might not be facts. http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_identity/2007/04/attacking_2fa.html
Forum posting about 2FA, its security and use.

after doing this practical, i learnt about the 3 different types of website, organisation, personal and subject- based.

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Hi people! A summary of what I have done for practical 1.
For this practical, my partner and I have chosen Games as our topic
& latest game as the aspect of the question.
Follow by, we are required to search on the internet in the 4 areas,

for the newsgroups and discussion list:http://www.winterwolves.net/

Electronic journal and magazine:http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives/005211.html

multi-media source:http://www.youtube.com

and the WWW site:http://members.aol.com/LShaw3457/Latest.html

It’s interesting and that I am able to find so many games related website line especially the newsgroup and discussion list.

Before this practical, I would say that I know nut about games. :)
And, I thought that people would just play games to kill boredom like me, but the fact is that people does talk and discuss about them online too.

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my 2 favourite links are:

tuDou, youTube

As I mentioned, one of my interest includes watching DVDs, other then watching DVDs which requires us to buy/ rent, we can watch it online for FREE to.

This website provides different variety of drama series (e.g. Korean, Taiwanese). Loading time is relatively fast too. =)

Labels: spells *fun*

Hi, I’m XiangYun, currently a year 2 student, diploma in Financial Business Informatics.

I enjoy leading an enjoyable and relax life. My interests include surfing the net and playing online games. Online games that I usually play are puzzle-related games, like, bubble shooter, word search, suDuko and many more. Other than playing online games, I also enjoy watching DVDs during my free time.

Also, I enjoy spending time with my love ones and lovable friends who brought laughter and fun to me. Last but not least, the nature and SIGHTSEEING. =)

In today’s lesson, we were asked to create this blog to update our reflection on things we have learnt in the upcoming practicals. To me, UIR is a relax and enjoyable cds.

I think that's all for my FIRST post. Look forward for more posts. =)

Labels: my very first post. =)