1. Find a ranked list of 20 largest cities all over the world. Enter your own keyword(s) at two or three different search engines and see what comes back. Are the results different among search engines?
1. Tokyo, Japan - 32,450,000
2. Seóul, South Korea - 20,550,000
3. Mexico City, Mexico - 20,450,000
4. New York City, USA - 19,750,000
5. Mumbai, India - 19,200,000
6. Jakarta, Indonesia - 18,900,000
7. Sáo Paulo, Brazil - 18,850,000
8. Delhi, India - 18,680,000
9. Õsaka/Kobe, Japan - 17,350,000
10. Shanghai, China - 16,650,000
11. Manila, Philippines - 16,300,000
12. Los Angeles, USA - 15,250,000
13. Calcutta, India - 15,100,000
14. Moscow, Russian Fed. - 15,000,000
15. Cairo, Egypt - 14,450,000
16. Lagos, Nigeria - 13,488,000
17. Buenos Aires, Argentina - 13,170,000
18. London, United Kingdom - 12,875,000
19. Beijing, China - 12,500,000
20. Karachi, Pakistan - 11,800,000
www. Worldatlas.com/citypops was the top result among 3 of the top search engines
2. Find 2-3 sites sell Samsung 3D HDTV in between $800 and $1200.
3. Convert 1 USD into RMB (Chinese Yuan). What’s the currency?
6.3851
4. Find a list of MS Word documents talking about internet protocols.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html
5. Find a recipe of your favorite dish.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-Alfredo/detail.aspx
6. What are the top 5 movies on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)? How about the bottom 5?
Top-
The shawshank redemption
The godfather 1
The godfather 2
The good the bad and the ugly
Pulp fiction
Bottom –
Superbabies: Baby geniuses 2
Daniel the wizard
Manos: the hands of fate
Dream well
Monster a-go go
7. Who was the first female computer programmer? For what was she famous?
Ada Lovelace, was famous for her work on early mechanical general purpose computer the analytical engine, her notes on the engine include the first algorithm processed by a machine.
8. Who was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital?
Jimmy carter the 39th president
9. Find a list of webcams that are located in UMass Lowell.
10. What are the differences between JPG and GIF files?
The JPG extension stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. It is a compressed version of a BMP, so an image loses detail when saved in JPG format. The software determines which details are too small for the human eye to see. It then discards that information and creates the JPG file, because there's a loss of detail.
The GIF extension stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A GIF is another form of a compressed BMP. An image saved as a GIF retains all of its detail because "lossless compression" is used. Lossless means no information is lost when you save the image.
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