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| Web browser | Allows users to access and view Web pages on the Internet |
| aggregator | Keeps track of changes made to Web sites by checking RSS feeds |
| video conferencing | Enables meeting between geographically separated people who use a network such as the Internet to transmit video/audio |
| message board | Online area where users have written discussions |
| e-learning | The delivery of education via some electronic method such as the Internet, networks, or CDs/DVDs |
| tax preparation | Kind of software that creates and analyzes the user’s tax forms to search for potential errors and deduction opportunities |
| FTP | A method of uploading and downloading files with other computers on the Internet |
| newsreader | Type of programs built into some e-mail programs and Web browsers |
| WBT | When using this kind of product, students actively become involved in the learning process |
| chat rooms | Requires chat client software |
| communications | Some of this kind of software is considered system software because it works with hardware and transmission media |
| instant messaging | ntegrated into some operating systems |
| image editing | Kind of software that provides the capabilities of paint software and the ability to modify existing graphics |
| photo editing | Software often included with the purchase of a digital camera |
| personal finance | Kind of software that determines where users are spending their money |
| DL | The delivery of education at one location while the learning takes place at other locations |
| online Help | The electronic equivalent of a user manual |
| blogware | Used to create time-stamped articles in a diary or journal format |
| text messaging | Integrated in most mobile devices |
| e-mail | Available free at portals on the Web and included with paid Internet access service |
| Button | graphical element that you activate to cause a specific action to occur |
| Online help | : the electronic equivalent of a user manual |
| Clip art | a collection of electronic drawings, photos, and other images |
| Command | an instruction that causes a program to perform a specific action |
| Create | when you enter text, numbers, images, and perform other tasks |
| Database | a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data |
| Desktop | on screen work area that has a graphical user interface |
| Edit | make changes to an existing content of a document |
| Font | a name assigned to a specific design of characters |
| Format | change in appearance |
| Freeware | is copyright software provided at no cost by an individual |
| Icon | small image displayed on a computer screen that represents a program |
| Menu | a list of commands from which you make selections |
| Pointer | a small symbol displayed on the screen that moves as you interact with the mouse or other devices |
| Print | when the computer places the contents of the document on paper or some other medium |
| Save | when the computer transfers the document from memory to a storage medium such as a USB flash or hard disk |
| Title bar | a horizontal space that contains the window’s name |
| Shareware | copyright software that is distributed at no cost for a trial period |
| Application software | consists of programs designed to make users more productive |
| Click | when you move the pointer to the button then pressing and releasing a button on the mouse |
| AC adapter | an external power supply |
| clock speed | the pace of the system clock |
| Bay | opening inside the system unit in which additional equipment can be installed |
| Bit | : the smallest unit of data a computer can process |
| Bluetooth | network standard, specially a protocol |
| Byte | 8 bites grouped together as a unit |
| Chip | : a small piece of semi conducting material on which integrated circuits are etched |
| digital | representation of data using only two discrete states |
| Firmware | contains permanently written data, instructions, or information |
| Gigabyte | equals one billion bytes |
| Expansion slot | is a socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter card |
| CMOS | a technology that provides high speeds and consumes little power |
| Dual-core processor | is a chip that contains two separate processor cores |
| access time | the amount of time it takes the processor to read data, instructions, and information from memory |
| Arithmetic logic unit | component of a processor that performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations |
| Binary system | number system used by computers that have just two unique digits 0 and 1 called bits |
| Bus | electrical channel that transfers electronic bites internally within the circuitry of a computer |
| Adapter card | : a circuit board that enhances functions of a component of the system unit |
| Central processing unit | interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer |
| Analogy | continuous signals (wave form) |
| Bandwidth | the amount of data, instructions, and information that can travel over a communications channel |
| Broadband | a media that transmit multiple signals simultaneous |
| Cable modem | a digital data over the cable television network |
| Clients | computers and mobile devices on the network that rely on the server for its resources |
| 802.16 | a network standard developed by IEEE that specifies how wireless devices communicate over the air in a wide area |
| Collaborate | to work online with other users connected to a server |
| Communications | the process in which two or more computers or devices transfer data, instruction, and info |
| Communication satellite | a space station that receives microwave signals from earth based station |
| Cellular radio | is a form of broadcast radio that is used widely for mobile |
| Coaxial cable | consists of dozens or hundreds of thin strands of glass or plastic that use light to transmit signals |
| Applet | usually runs on the client inside of an intergrated program |
| Assembly language | the second generation of programming langues |
| Beta | a program that has most or all of its features and functionality implemented |
| Coding | involves translatingthe solution algorithms into a programming languageand then typing the programming code into the computer |
| Machine language | known as the first generation of programming languages |
| Debugging | the process of lacting and correcting syntax and logic errors in a program |
| Flash | a web page authoring program that enables web developers to create professional, dynamci, interactive web sites. |
| Flowchart | graphically shows the logic in a slution algorithm |
| HTML | a special formatting language that programmers use to format documents ofr display on the web. |
| Computer program | a series of instructions that directs a computer to perform tasks. |
