by Kevin Sanchez

Created on: October 27, 2009

The Internet can be quite an overwhelming place for someone who never used it before. In this article, I'll try to guide you around the World Wide Web. I'll divide the web in four parts: productivity, entertainment, knowledge and communication. I'll tell you more about how to use the Internet to boost your productivity, kill some time and learn more about anything you want to. Last but not least, I will show you how to use the Internet to connect with other people, be it unknown people or your own friends and family. Enjoy!

Part One Of The World Wide Web: Productivity

There are lots of tools available on the Internet to boost your productivity, ranging from online organizers to word processors, you can find anything on the World Wide Web. I'll sum up some of the best.

Google Documents
Google Documents, or Docs, is a webbased service which allows you to create documents without having a word processor installed. The advantage of this is that you do not have to stuff your computer with pre-installed and most often expensive software such as Microsoft Office. Another advantage of Google Docs is that you can share documents easily with your colleagues, and even allow them to edit your documents if you would like them to do so.

Remember The Milk
A weird though funny name for a must-have application if you're a busy bee who tends to forget things often. Remember The Milk allows you to create to-do lists easily. You can maintain tasks easily and fast and you can then ask Remember The Milk to remind you of them. There's loads of ways to do this. You can ask Remember The Milk to send you reminders via e-mail, text messages on your mobile phone, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger and lots, lots more! Other interesting features include maps, to-do list sharing and more.

When Is Good
When Is Good allows you to easily schedule your meetings with your colleagues, and if I say easy, I truly mean easy. You do not even have to sign up to make use of this website. Just fire up a calendar, click the grid for all the times that suit you and enter your e-mail address. You'll then receive an e-mail containing a link to e-mail to your invitees. They can then see your proposed times and they can do the same thing as you just did: click on the times that they are free. When everyone is done, you can visit your results page and quickly see when everyone has the time for the meeting.

Part Two Of The World Wide Web: Entertainment

As you could see in the first part,

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