Activity 11 weather information

Weather information

 

Wednesday

 

The weather was quite accurate, however the temeperatrure was 9 degrees/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday

 

Online banking

 

Online Banking

Advantages

•  Monthly Statements can be done online rather than go to your local bank or atm. All you have to do is login online and download a copy of your statement. This adds a great deal of convenience for those who are hard pressed for time.
• It is environmentally friendly because you do not use any paper.
• You can transfer funds from one account to another without the hassle of going to your bank.
• Moreover you can also schedule monthly payments to be made out of your account automatically.
• Online banking has geographical convenience, does not matter where you are.
•  Banking online means that the banks no longer need to keep their branches open around the clock, this means you can access your account 24 hours a day.
• Online banking allows the customer of the bank to make financial transactions on a secure website which can be a retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society. It may include of any transactions related to online usage.
  
  

Disadvantages

• Your account information might get hacked by unauthorized people.
• If you forget your password you cannot access your account
• Understanding the usage of internet banking may be confusing for a beginner. However there is some sites that offer a demo on how to use internet banking, but not all of them.
• You cannot have internet banking unless you have access to the internet.
  
  

http://www.barclays.co.uk/PersonalBanking/P1242557947640?WT.mc_id=1729514537920560-&WT.srch=1&mpch=sem

Barclay's

This website is used for online banking for customers that have a Barclay's account. Firstly to log on you have to put in your surname and membership number, then you have to put in your username and password. The security is safe because you have to put in a personal username and password, which will prevent fraud as supposed to only putting the card details, where someone could just find your card and type in the details. However it does not allow you to review debits and credits to account without downloading and processing very, very limited available data within another application for further spreadsheet processing. Furthermore transferring from one barclays account to another is not very flowing and customer service in india is poor

 

 

 

Santander

 

http://www.santander.co.uk/csgs/Satellite?canal=CABBEYCOM&cid=1237889419188&cidAgrup=845616358929450&empr=Abbeycom&leng=en_GB&pagename=Abbeycom/Page/WC_ACOM_ViewSelector&posSel=1

To use Santander you must have a sanatander account.  The online banking is easy to use and the  Statements are viewable over a long period of time (ie 6 months). Statments are clear and easy to understand. Transfer facility is very good and quick. Log in may seem cumbersome but it does make things more secure and Santander seem hot on security.

 

Activity 10 Journey to tottenham court road from bedford

Driving directions to Tottenham Rd, London, UK

3D2D

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	Bedford
	1. Head northwest toward A5141
			325 ft
	2. Turn right onto Ashburnham Rd/​A5141
			0.2 mi
	3. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Midland Rd/​A5141
			476 ft
	4. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Prebend St/​A5141
			0.4 mi
	5. Turn right onto Cauldwell St/​A5141
			0.1 mi
	6. Take the 1st left onto Britannia Rd/​A5141
			0.2 mi
	7. Turn right onto Ampthill Rd/​A6 Continue to follow A6
			1.5 mi
	8. At the roundabout, take the 4th exit onto the A421 ramp to M1/​Kempston/​Milton Keynes
			0.3 mi
	9. Merge onto A421
			7.6 mi
	10. Take the exit
			0.3 mi
	11. Turn left toward Exit 13
			0.2 mi
	12. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto the M1 ramp to London
			0.2 mi
	13. Merge onto M1
			36.0 mi
	14. At junction 2, exit onto Great North Way/​A1 toward C. London/​Holloway/​N Circular/​A406 East Continue to follow Great North Way
			1.9 mi
	15. Continue onto N Circular Rd/​A406
			0.3 mi
	16. Slight right onto Falloden Way/​A1 Continue to follow A1
			3.4 mi
	17. Turn right onto St. John's Way/​A1
			118 ft
	18. Slight left onto A1
			1.9 mi
	19. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto St. Paul's Rd/​A1201 Continue to follow St. Paul's Rd
			0.7 mi
	20. Continue straight onto Ball's Pond Rd/​A104
			0.3 mi
	21. Turn right onto Culford Rd
			315 ft
	22. Take the 1st left onto Tottenham Rd
			210 ft

Tottenham Rd London, UK

Save to My Maps

Est. fuel cost: £7.91
https://maps.google.co.uk/

By Train
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timetable/details?id=1&return=false&callingPage=tf&url=/service/times/BDM/Tottenham_Court_Road/today/1600/dep

Email 101

EMAIL

Email is a method of exchanging digital message via the internet to friends, family, co workers etc.  It was invented in 1971 and has grown exponentially as the internet has developed. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. Also email can now be used on mobile phones connected using GPRS, WAP or even SMS. Moreover it can be used via consoles and digital t connection to the internet.

An email system allows you to: select individual messages to view; see a list of messages in your mailbox ; showing the sender’s name, the content, date and time it was sent; add attachments to mails and save attachments from mails; compose messages with a subject and textual content.

The message is mostly composed in a frame within the client or an editing window. This used to be entirely text based but can now be HTML based.  Messages are sent using an STMP server and received using POP3 or an IMAP server.

ADVANTAGES OF EMAIL
Easy to use
Fast
Permanent records of communication 
With attachments, it is capable of delivering almost any message and file type to almost any recipient

DISADVANTAGES OF EMAIL

worms can be attached very easily

Spam mail can block up mailboxes and whole areas of the internet itself.

alse identification

DANGERS OF EMAIL

Spoofing or spamming- It is easy to act as someone else with a fake address, leading the receiver to believe the email is from a trusted source. Spamming is using email to conduct a junk email campaign. It is so easy to do that unregulated it can flood people’s inboxes.

Virus- This is a piece of code that attaches itself onto programs or files. A virus is capable of copying itself once it is opened.  Furthermore it spreads by first infecting files or the system areas of a computer or network router's hard drive and then making copies of itself. Some viruses are harmless, others may damage data files, and some may destroy files. Viruses used to be spread when people shared floppy disks and other portable media, now viruses are primarily spread through email messages.

Worm- This is a species that can copy itself in great volumes when installed on the computer without any further files opened.  They often spread from computer to computer and take up valuable memory. Also worms can also allow attackers to take over your computer.

Trojan- This is in a form of a piece code that is usually covered in appealing attachment or download but may harbor an unwelcome payload. Once a Trojan horse is installed it can take over and damage the users system.

My blog

 Blog 1

We created a blog to track our progress whilst doing coursework and to record everything I do so in the future I will know what I did. Furthermore if I find a useful website I could record it in my blog. We used a variety of search engines to find out if they get the same results and in conclusion i found that serach engines can be related in same way or another. The search engines I used were Google
https://www.google.co.uk/ Bing http://www.bing.com/ and askjeeves http://www.uk.ask.com/
For my home study I will look at office for national statistics and do some research
//www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html

Table 1: Households with Internet Access, 1998 to 2012
Year	Per cent
1998	9
1999	13
2000	25
2001	36
2002	42
2003	46
2004	49
2005	55
2006	57
2007	61
2008	65
2009	70
2010	73
2011	77
2012	80