See also the Powerpoint presentation elsewhere on this site for slides shown in class.

Choose/Specify

www.fedex.com allows you to specify where you live by zip code to help determine the closest FedEx location to you for package drop-off, and shows you a map to help you get to it.

www.iflyswa.com, www.nwa.com, www.airtran.com, and www.delta-air.com allow you choose your flights online. The sites ask you when you want to fly and where to so they can search their databases for the best match.

www.musicblvd.com allows you too pick a CD and listen to it online. After that you put it in your "shopping cart." They offer a variety of categories including what’s on sale.

www.egallery.com allows you to browse through the paintings and view what they have to offer. The paintings are separated by collections, for example the Haitian Art Collection, and a sample is shown from each collection to give you and idea of what is inside each of the collections.

www.cigarboutique.com offers a wide array of cigars from many different countries. The cigars are separated by the country they are from to make the selection as easy as possible for you.

www.lexus.com provides information on their new car models and helps give you a better idea about what is in each of their models and why a specific one would suit you best.

www.sprintpcs.com/clear gives information on Sprint’s latest phones, the services they offer with their phones, and some future models not yet presented.

At www.movieposter.com one can preview their 6,000 plus movie posters and their 5,000 plus pictures of celebrities in several easy to use categories. You can preview what is new or search for the poster or picture of your choice. They even list specials in case you have no idea where to start.

A quick visit to www.trump.com provides information on the four casino resort areas owned by Donald Trump. This especially helpful because for you gaming vacation, it would be helpful if one knew a little more about each one before they selected the best one for their needs. The site also offers a video that tells of the history of Donald Trump.

www.century21.com, www.remax.com, www.coldwellbanker.com, www.realtor.com and www.consoli.com all offer you the ability to preview the homes they are offering via the internet. Coldwell also provides an online mortgage calculator to help the perspective buyer decide if they can afford the home. The calculator automatically gives you the payment and the number of payments.

www.reel.com sells movies online at a discount similar to the way www.amazon.com sells books. You log on to their sites and then you can review the selection they have as well as find out what is on special.

Order

www.amazon.com allows you to order a book(s) on their site after you have chosen which ones you want. This well know site is going head-to-head with bookseller behemoth Barnes and Noble (www.barnesandnoble.com).

www.bloomingcookies.com allows one to order a "bouquet" of their cookies with their easy to fill out order form.

FedEx (www.fedex.com) enables a customer to register on the internet so they can get better service and have their package picked directly from them. A log is kept to enable FedEx to know your preferences.

LLBean (www.llbean.com) and Macy’s ( www.macys.com) use preferences you’ve specified in prior transactions to serve you better, quicker, and ensure order accuracy.

www.jcpenny.com, www.llbean.com, www.macys.com, and www.filenes.com all present you with a selection on their website from which you can order. They will provide you a virtual shopping cart to put your items in prior to checkout.

www.iflyswa.com, www.nwa.com, www.airtran.com, and www.delta-air.com give you the ability to purchase airline tickets from the web site using your credit card. In addition Delta also offers you the ability to reserve rooms from their website, and NWA offers you vacation packages online.

www.schwab.com and www.etrade.com permit customers to make trades online provided they have an account.

www.golf-teeparty.com is a company who specializes in golf parties and has the party favors for each party. You can order the kits from their website to make your party complete. The kits include party games you can play.

www.auction-one.com and www.onsale.com have the capacity to accept bids online. You state the most you are willing to pay. Once you state the most you are willing to pay the computer bids for you to get the item as cheap as possible, and if the price exceeds your maximum, the computer will stop bidding. Then they will notify you as to whether or not you got the item, via an email.

Status Inquiry

www.fedex.com permits the customer to check the delivery progress of their package through the use of a package tracking number assigned to each parcel. After it has been received you can check the delivery time and the party who signed for it.

www.musicblvd.com and www.amazon.com both offer customers the ability to check the status of their order from their website. This includes backorders and when an order was shipped.

www.iflyswa.com, www.nwa.com, and www.delta-air.com permit you to check the timeliness of their flights. www.airtran.com allows you to search their future flights and see if any seats are available with their real-time schedule system, since they are first come first served airline.

When you place an order at www.snacksonline.com they give you a UPS tracking number so that you may follow the link at the bottom of their site to http://www.ups.com/tracking/tracking.html to get to the UPS site quickly.

Deliver/Install-Get/Use

www.cybermeals.com delivers meals and allows you to order food from the convenience of your computer. Once you are a member your member name will tell them who and where you are, enabling them to bring you your food as quickly as possible. They offer food from 20 different places for deliver and 4 places for take-out.

The Wall Street Journal is available online from www.wsj.com. A one year subscription runs around $50.

www.hoovers.com provides detailed company research to you right at your computer. You can search company profiles and find out more about the companies from the profile they are given. Members get additional information based on their subscription.

The WantAd is available free online at www.wantadvertiser.com and a day earlier than at the newsstands. The site is easily searchable using keywords or categories. You have to pay $3 for the WantAd in stores.

www.peapod.com and www.netgrocer.com enable you to get your groceries online and have them delivered right to your door. Peapod will only deliver in certain areas while Netgrocer will deliver anywhere because they ship via FedEx.

Ernie (http://ernie.ey.com), from Ernest and Young, delivers online consulting. For $6,000 a year a small-business, based in the U.S., can receive their consulting services online. Their top-level consultants who are all over the country handle your questions.

Microsoft lets you download software from their website, www.microsoft.com, as does Netscape at their website, www.netscape.com and www.apple.com. Some of the software available for downloading is free.

At the website www.rubberchicken.com you can send humorous mail to your friends as jokes for around $4 each. They have a wide selection such as saying their GRE scores can’t possibly be theirs or their scores have been revoked. The mail is separated into sections by topic.

At www.cio.com you can read articles that are available online to you. The articles can be searched upon based on topic on interest. Try searching on the word "Reck" and see what comes up.

The Kelley Blue Book (www.kbb.com) and Edmunds ( http://edmunds.com) offer you the values of new and used cars in a matter of a few clicks at their sites. You enter the model, year, mileage and options and they present you with a complete listing of what the car is worth, if it’s a used car, or what you should pay, if it’s a new car.

www.bloomberg.com has a variety of stories available on numerous topics dealing with finances. Their topics are updated frequently and are very current.

For a free newsletter you can sign up at www.smartbiz.com and they will deliver it to your in your email every time a new issue comes out. The newsletter helps you to get the most out of your business.

For race results you can visit www.santaanita.com or www.hialeahpark.com and they will give you up to the minute results from their races. This is helpful because of the timely manner they are delivered in. Hialeah Park gives previous results, which are archived in a well structure manner.

www.sarasotaproperty.net allows you to view property records and get the dimensions and the value of the property. All that is needed is an address, a street and house number will do, or a parcel id #. This is helpful when one wants to find out who owns a piece of property. Try looking up the property at 546 Bird Key.

Gatorade (www.gatorade.com) offers two free screen savers for you to download (http://www.gatorade.com/pages/gatorade/mnt.html) promoting their newest flavor, Midnight Thunder. The also have an online store for you to shop in.

Pay

www.cybercash.com, an online broker is an effective middleman in e-commerce. Cybercash will make sure both the money and the product are given to the proper parties.

www.firstunion.com and www.bankboston.com both allow one to do cyberbanking from their websites. You log on using a 128-bit SSL encryption browser, for extra security, and then you can pay your bills from their site.

www.netscape.com, www.apple.com, and www.microsoft.com all allow you to pay for their software you purchased with your credit card through their site. The software, once purchased, can be downloaded instantly.

www.amazon.com promises to pay your $50 credit card security deductible if in any way your credit card is fraudulently used due to a transaction you made with them. This is unique because they are guaranteeing their server is secure. Amazon also boasts that nobody has ever had a problem with them and used their guarantee.

www.bloomingcookies.com allows you to pay with a credit card, once you have figured out what you would like to purchase.

www.iflyswa.com, www.nwa.com, www.airtran.com, and www.delta-air.com allow you to finalize your purchase with your credit card so when you arrive at the airport you can go right to the terminal and get your tickets. www.swissair.com allows you to use ticketless travel.

www.schwab.com allows you to pay for your trade online through your account with Schwab.

America Online (www.aol.com) allows you to pay automatically every month with automatic deductions from your bank account or charges to your credit card. The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) and Hoovers (www.hoovers.com) also have automatic deductions for your subscriptions.

Train

Etrade (www.etrade.com) offers training in how to do electronic trading at their site. You can search on the topics and they help to give you a better understanding of what is possible on their site and how to use it to the fullest advantage.

At www.kaplan.com you can download sample tests and review past tests to help prepare yourself for the future. This helps you to achieve a superior test score.

www.viagra.com offers information to health professionals and enables them to properly prescribe Viagra to their patients. The site also provides the structure of Viagra and how it works.

The site www.merck.com has medical information where you can learn about medical situations and symptoms as well as medicine itself.

When issues arise about STDs and pregnancy prevention many of the answers are available at www.plannedparenthood.org. The information is free and is categorized to aid you in finding exactly what you are looking for.

When you want to get training for your boating license you can visit www.boatus.com. At the site you can test yourself and see how you will do to prepare for the U.S. Coast Guard. The site also sells boat insurance.

www.texaco.com tells about their gas. Information is available about their grades of gasoline and what their detergents do for your car. The site shows detail about their gasoline.

The Mayo Clinic offers information on medical questions at their site, www.mayohealth.org/usp/htm/med_toc.htm. This information is free and can be easily searched. The information comes from recognized research.

At www.firstflight.com a student pilot can receive some "ground" training. By doing this training online one can eliminate the need for additional classroom hours and be in the air sooner.

At the Summit Racing website ( www.summitracing.com) you can read articles with pictures which guide you in the assembly of a racecar or basic car maintenance.

Apple Computers (www.apple.com) offers education on their site. They help train you in use of the Mac. The education sections are divided by category and explain what is under each topic.

Inventory

www.easysabre.com keeps track of the flights you have booked and will not allow you to book more than one flight. By keeping your flights separate they can eliminate any unnecessary inconvenience.

Account For

BankBoston (www.bankboston.com), First Union (www.firstunion.com) Prudential (www.prusec.com), and Fidelity ( www.fidelity.com) allow you to manage your financial assets from their sites. This helps you to monitor your spending as well as see what has been processed and what has yet to clear.

At www.anonymizer.com you can see how people keep track of your computer and how they can access you and what you have been doing. They also offer software to prevent this.

Amazon (www.amazon.com) allows you to access your account and go to account maintenance. From the account maintenance section you can look at your previous orders. This is helpful if you can’t remember the title of a book u bought and liked, or your just curious about your account history.

Product/Process support

www.microsoft.com and www.gateway.com and www.apple.com offer extremely well organized technical help sections on their website. Once registered Microsoft already knows where you use your computer and what you use it for. The help at both sites is searchable and it is also free.

www.summitracing.com gives you online tech help to help you out of a jam when you are working on you car. They offer help on numerous projects.

Chatline

www.Internetlove.com as well as Canada Chat (www.v-r.net/canada/chat) offer chatlines to help you become more familiar with the people on their services. Through the use of their chatlines, at designated times, you can receive more information on the person(s) you are attempting to meet.

Dr. Ruth has discussion panels on her site (http://boards.pathfinder.com/@@zgLU8QQA0fbGl6SC/cgi-bin/webx?13@^108101@.ee8a99c) where people can talk about issues that affect them. You can post a message and others will share their experiences with you. These are helpful because of the frequency of the postings.

Dell Computers (www.dell.com) has a technical chatline to assist their users. The chatline you can either log in as a guest and have read only privileges, or you can register and then you can ask questions as well as read what is going on in the room. Previous sessions are cataloged.

Maintain/Repair

Stratus Computers (www.stratus.com) constantly monitors their customer’s computers via a comm link. They send you the part that is needed to fix problems with your computer, sometimes before you even realize there is a problem.

www.gardening.com offers advice on how to keep your garden and other growth under control and doing well. They do offer books but much is available online and can be easily searched with pictures to help diagnose any illnesses which your plants may have.

Replace/Upgrade

America Online (www.aol.com) offers new versions of their software to their subscribers as soon as they have a new version available. They either notify you via a message when you sign on or they will send you the new software in the mail.