| A | B |
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| Search Engine | a software program designed to gather information from a given data base and to sort that information with key words and phrases. |
| Writng Processor | a software tool designed for typing letters and papers. |
| Spreadsheet | a software program with rows and columns that is an accounting and bookeeping tool capable of performing mathematical functions. |
| Ask Jeeves | a specialized search engine designed to sort information in question form. |
| Browser | a program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. |
| Presentation Tool | a software program that allows the user to set up a series of slides that allow the presenter to include animation, graphics, and sound. |
| RAM | memory that goes away when you shut off your computer |
| Spreadsheet | a program that calculates large sums of numbers |
| Presentation Program | program that allows animation of text |
| scanner | hardware for the copying of documents and pictures |
| data base | program that allows sorting and printing of labels |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| HTTP | Hypertext transfer Protocol |
| ATM | Asynchonous Transfer Mode |
| Binary | 2 digit numerical system |
| Cache | stores recently used info |
| Cookie | data sent to your server by the a Web server |
| DVI | Digital Video Interface |
| HTML | Hyper-text markup language |
| Hypertext | text that links to other sites |
| IEEE | Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| FAT | file allocation table |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIGO | garbage in garbage out |
| GUI | graphic user interface |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digial Network |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
