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There are millions of sites on the world wide web, covering millions of different subjects. Web directories are one way they are kept organized.

What is a web directory?

A web directory, as the name implies, is a directory for sites on the Internet. A web directory is maintained and edited by human beings (rather than computer programs) who categorize each website into subjects. The sites are linked to other sites of the same subject, so when searching for particular topic (for example, poker tables), the sites will be categorized conveniently.

How is a web directory different from a search engine?

Search engines such as Google use sophisticated computer programs to build their website index.  When you type in a search on Google, you are searching this index.

A web directory, on the other hand, uses human editors who review the specific site and add it to the directory’s index. Yahoo is one example of a famous web directory. Unlike search engines, web directories may charge a fee to list a site on the directory, mainly because it uses human labor.

When is it useful to use a web directory?

Whether you will want to use a search engine or a web directory depends on whether you are searching for information or publishing a site. If you are searching for information, a search engine will usually yield the highest results.

If you are publishing a site for your business, you’ll want to use a search engine and a web directory to generate more traffic. Yahoo, for example, charges $299 a year to have a site listed in their directory. Submitting to a search engine is free, but web directories will increase your overall online presence.

In case you have missed it, the technology age has exploded incredibly lately, especially with the invention of eBook readers and various different cell phones. Cell phones these days can do almost anything from sending and receiving emails, video chat, Internet browsing and much more. Since the technological explosion continues to grow more and more high schools are requiring that their incoming freshman classes have laptop computers for use in the classroom five days per week.

For the most part, these laptops will either be paid for by the students’ parents or will be issued using grant money acquired by the high school. If the students’ parents have to pay for the laptops it will be in installments throughout the school year and the price will be added into the students’ activity or technology fee so that the parents do not have to pay for the laptop in one shot.

The laptops are being used for almost every single class, including mathematics, so that teachers can integrate technology as much as possible in their lessons. Teachers can have the students load power point presentations on their laptops, take notes in Microsoft Word during class, work on group projects, type in-class tests or papers and much more. Students will be able to submit their classwork while on the laptop either in class or at home to the class’ website, which has been created by the teacher. This allows the students and the teachers to learn as much about technology as possible, which is vitally important in today’s high tech world. The freshman class will take these laptops with them all four years of their high school career no matter what type of class they are taking from semester to semester.

These laptops can be used in History, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Literature, Math, Science, Biology and so many other classes.

As we approach the 2011 calendar year, technology continues to impress all over the world. So much can be done with computers these days that someone would have thought you were crazy should you mention this stuff 30 years ago. Who would have thought that video chat, instant messaging, email and eBook readers would all be so popular right now 30 years ago? In all honesty, absolutely no one, not even the techies back in the day. Computers have evolved so much over the past couple of decades that they can do almost anything. Computers can be found in their namesake, cell phones, PDAs, DVD players, video game consoles, eBook readers and many other items.

Computers have helped professions such as the media, medication, education, emergency services, meteorology and many others grow and expand in leaps and bounds to where they are today. Media, for one, has been one of the most improved professions since computers have developed into what they can do. Media professionals, once laptops were invented and refined, could cover their assignment from anywhere in the world, write their article, and submit it without missing a deadline or without having to be in the newsroom to type the story.

Medical professionals are able to research unknown diseases, medication combinations, and other treatments from the hospital on their phone or at a computer without having to look through hundreds of pages of research books to find the answer they are looking for. This makes doctors more available to their patients because they are spending less time looking through textbooks and more time caring for their patients and administering treatments and medication. Computers will continue to evolve over the next couple of decades to the point where almost all communication will have to occur on a computer because everything else will be obsolete.

Attention all logophiles, wordies and vehemently verbose a new iphone application may actually help you out of your next jam should you find yourself at a loss for words. More advanced than your average web dictionary and a lot more fun than an old-fashioned hardback dictionary, thesaurus or glossary, Terminology is the name of a brand new software you can run on your smart phone that actually allows you to browse the English language cleanly and effortlessly.

More than just words, Terminology allows you to quickly find phrases, catchwords, slang and sarcasm within its database. The program seems complex, but actually doesn’t even require a network to load. It’s user friendly, quick and easy to read and will certainly come in handy the next time the cat has your tongue.

Students, especially, are finding this type of technology particularly helpful when racking their brains during late night term paper writing. We’ve all experienced the frustration of not being able to articulate the correct thought  whether it’s because we can’t think of the proper term or we’re running on too little sleep and too much caffeine and can’t put our fingers on the right words!

Another fun use for the Terminology app – for students and adults alike – is winning at word games like Scrabble and Words With Friends. Before smart phones, wordy competitors had to break out the old dusty dictionary to search for the right word. Now, it’s simple to plug in the letters you need to rack up your score and impress your friends.

Although Terminology doesn’t require a wireless network to run smoothly and successfully, if you do happen to have network access, the program will actually help you retrieve more than just spelling, definition and origin. In fact, Terminology works in conjunction with an online connection to locate uses of a particular word or phrase online, search engine optimization, and websites where the word is used most often. With such advanced technology, it’s no wonder even the web dictionary is obsolete!

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It’s always fun to learn what new words the Oxford-English Dictionary adds to the lexicon each year. With web dictionaries and online resources more popular than traditional ones these days, most of the new terms are technology or Internet based. Surprisingly, in 2010, the historic World Cup inspired the English language with the brand new word that was on everyone’s lips  literally vuvuzela.

Pronouncedvoo-voo-ZE-la, the term refers to the long, plastic horns fans voraciously blew during each and every World Cup match, from the first round up until Spain’s final victory in July 2010. The horn now-famous as buzzing bee sound combined with the frenzy of the biggest event in sports made the noise maker with a funny name household fodder.

The sound even went viral, with soccer fans sending each other borderline-annoying sound bites over their computers and music players, allowing the vuvuzela to sweep not only the sports world, but the technological one as well. Along the lines of the “dancing hamsters from years ago, the vuvuzela sound is grating, ear-pinching, yet surprisingly catchy.

Every celebrity and news anchor, from soccer stars and even Today Show hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb were seen (and heard!) loudly blowing vuvuzelas, both on air and off. Landon Donavan, star mid-fielder for the Los Angeles Galaxy and history-making USA goal scorer in the 2010 World Cup, even commented on how noisy the horns were during game time. The plastic horns even became a favorite child’s toy for the entire summer, selling out on America’s boardwalks and in amusement parks.

With the booming popularity of the vuvuzela, it’s no surprise that the actual word finally made its way into the English language officially, in 2010. For the sake of everyone’s ears, though, let’s hope the noisybuzz sound won’t ensure quite as long as the word itself!

Cell phones these days can do almost anything. When we say that, we actually mean that, so you better believe it. Cell phones can send and receive emails, play music, download applications, play videos, chat with others, send picture and video messages, play games, check sports score, download bank statements and much more. All of these features are trumped by a cell phone’s ability to access the Internet from a mobile web browser. Mobile web browsers allow users to view their favorite websites in mobile form. This means that they are compressed down to a specific size so that they can appear on a cell phone’s screen, which is incredibly small compared to a computer screen.

Since cell phones have their own web browsers users can do almost anything they can do on a personal computer when they are nowhere near their desktop or laptop. This includes transferring money, depositing money, sending emails, researching fun topics, checking movie times, finding out the weather, checking your flight plan and so much more. Most cell phone web browsers will support almost any size website but you might not be able to work all of the features of a non-mobile site on a mobile phone because those sites are too large.

Should you want to visit your favorite websites on your mobile phone you can type the URL of the site into your cell phone’s browser and then bookmark the site for quick access. If you do not want to bookmark the site you might want to consider downloading the application for the site. This will put a logo on your phone’s screen, enabling the user to access the site very quickly from the home screen, without having to use the phone’s web browser. Cell phone Internet access varies depending on the network and the location of cell towers.

With online web dictionaries and word processors automatically correcting our spelling and grammar, it’s no surprise students today are growing up never learning how to use traditional academic references. With a thesaurus at your fingertips  and one that far exceeds any old-fashioned paper copy, to boot  why would anyone need to use those old archaic tools? It turns out, they don’t and aren’t in today’s media courses in schools.

In fact, more and more students today never even use traditional references like hard copies of dictionaries and thesauruses in the classroom. Across the country, school districts are implementing laptop or personal computers into the budget for the school year. Each student receives their own PC connected to the school’s online homework and grading systems and often never even use a notebook or pen anymore. It may seem pricey and unnecessary for each student to carry a laptop  but considering the strain multiple textbooks, workbooks and references put on a student’s shoulders when carried in a school backpack, the laptop greatly reduces the weight burden.

In addition, the cost of one laptop per student to a school district is about equal to what multiple textbooks, dictionaries, industry publications and school supplies cost. When a student can download information, text and thesauruses free online, there’s no need for schools to invest in new books every year. The students have access to up-to-the-minute information, and school districts don’t need to budget for the newest editions of textbooks each year, which are basically obsolete before the first day of school.

If you’re concerned about teaching your young child to learn the traditional ways to access information through dictionaries or hard copies of encyclopedias, incorporate the traditional media into your student’s time at home. If they show no interest, remember, there’s a reason why we no longer use the abacus anymore, either.

The ability to search for almost any piece of information on the World Wide Web these days makes life a whole lot easier for millions of people across the globe. Being able to search a web directory allows Internet users to browse through billions to trillions of websites with more information than they can handle at once. These sites can be governmental, educational, informative, fun, dangerous and full of spam advertisements. If users do not know how to search a web directory properly then they will find it difficult when the search results are returned to them. They will not know how to find the websites that they are looking for.

The best way to use a web directory is knowing what you are looking for. If you know what you are specifically looking for then this makes your search so much easier to perform and sift through once the results are returned. Know the keywords related to the topic you want to search. For instance, if you want to read about selling a used car to a private party, you should use the keyword phrase ‘sell used car privately.’ This reduces the number of words the directory has to search for and reduces the amount of results returned to you that could be considered spam.

A web directory can be setup on a private basis for institutions such as colleges, universities, libraries, businesses and other entities. These private directories will only be accessible in the office or the school by students or employees by using a username and password to log into the directory. A web directory could also be used to log research books, statistics, and other information pertinent to a student’s or employee’s class or workplace project, allowing him or her to research any information that is needed.

It’s 2010, which means that in addition to parents shelling out big bucks for school supplies like textbooks, notebooks pens and highlighters; dorm necessities like bedding, alarm clocks and closet organizers; they also have to open their wallets for snazzy new electronics that many universities are actually requiring students to carry. Incoming college freshman now need laptops, smart phones, wireless capability for all over campus – but apps? How can a smart phone app actually enhance the college classroom? Say Campus Life, a popular collegiate environment and social blog recently ranked the top ten most helpful smart phone apps for school; just in time to load up the car and move your new student into campus!

While the Blackberry and the brand new Android maintain strong worldwide sales among business professionals, the Apple iphone seems to reign supreme for the college set. Sure, they have a sleek look and are super trendy, contributing to their popularity among 18 to 24 year olds; but the Say Campus Life rankings listed the iphone as the most utilitarian for college students, to boot. Since Apple caters to a younger audience, several apps have been developed specifically to make college life easier, more fulfilling and more productive.

First, eTextbooks for iphone is an app that allows students to download text on demand. Sure, there’s a fee involved but it’s a small price to pay for your student to avoid the long-dreaded tradition of lugging your body weight in textbooks across campus. Everything your student needs for class from web dictionaries to specialized course information can all be downloaded using handy eTextbooks.

Urbanspoon for iphone was ranked number one among college apps. Too often, new college students feel overwhelmed or maybe disgusted? By dining hall options, but often are so unfamiliar with their new area that they end up living on Doritos and dry Frosted Flakes. Urbanspoon helps students locate good (and cheap!) eats within a half mile of campus, leaving their stomachs full but their already meager wallets still plump as well!