Agenda for Lab 8:

Before you start the lab:

• Check out the following utility for organizing your schedule: here
• Write a brief review of the utility, and submit it here

First Task:

• Write up a 1 paragraph technical description of VoIP
• Research VoIP
• What it is
• How it works
• Imagine you want to help a friend in another country (or somewhere far away) set up VoIP to talk to you. Come up with a detailed set of instructions for what he/she would have to do.
• How would they set it up?
• How would they make calls?
• What limitations (if any) are there?
• etc.

Second Task:

• Try to think of something you'd like to be able to do with your computer. For instance:
• Find out how much social security you'll get when you retire
• Estimate Carbon Dioxide generated by all cars in U.S.
• Manage your music files
• Make birthday cards
• Manage your finances (You may want to check out something called 'Jobber's Home Budget')
• A program that can write a poem
• etc.
• Once you've come up with something, try to search for a freeware shareware piece of software that does what you want.
• For Windows, you may want to try somewhere like cnet
• For Mac, you may want to try the downloads section of Apple.com
• For Linux, (you'll probably find a lot for linux), you can try sourceforge, or gnu

Turnin:

• Save these tasks in a simple *.txt file, and turn it in using WWWTurnin to the assignment labeled, you guessed it, Lab8