Data: Information.
Data Communications: Communicating with information. Such as e-mailing something to a friend.
Database: A "folder" where a lot of data (information) is stored.
Database Software: A type of software that allows you to save data.
Default: The settings your computer came with.
Desktop: The main screen of your computer.
Desktop shortcuts: These are shortcuts placed on your desktop that will lead you to the main program.
Desktop theme: The way the icons look, and the task bar. Sometimes referring to the background of your desktop.
Destination: The end point.
Dialog box: A box based with dialog.
Disk cleanup: Usually a program used to clean up your PC's hard drive.
Disk Defragmenter: Used to "Defrag" your computer. It's deletes and moves small files that got detached from it's proper program/file.
Distance learning: Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, technology, and instructional system designs that aim to deliver education to students.
Document file icons: Icons that represent documents.
Double-click: To click your mouse twice.
Dragging: Dragging is when you take a icon/image ect. to another location.
DVD: videodisk: a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set.
Execution cycle (E-cycle): The execution cycle. When a computer obeys the instructions in a computer program it is said to be running or executing the program.
Extension: act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need"
File name: The name of a file
Firewall: Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network.
Folder: Something that contains and saves data.
Folders bar: The items you recently viewed inside the folder.
Fragmented files: Files that have been scatted are put back into the correct place.
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) The way the computer looks.
Graphics software: Software that usually improves your video card (DIRECTX)
Hackers: People who can get into your system and steal personal information.
Hard disk drive: The drive that holds your hard drive.
Hardware: The components in your PC.
Icons: The symbol of files.
Impact printers: a printer that strikes the paper in order to form images. Example: Dot Matrix Printer
Input devices: The devices that you put into your computer such as the mouse and keyboard.
Instruction cycle (I-cycle): The time required to execute the fastest instruction on a processor.
Internet: Find information and websites.
Internet Explorer: A software that allows you to browse the internet.
Keyboard: A device that allows you to type on the computer.
Language translators: Software that translate one language into another.
Linking: Sending a person a link.
Local area network (LAN): The same people over one router.
Log off: To log off is to stop using the program.
Log on: To enter into a program.
Main memory: The memory that is being used the most.
Mainframe computers: Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as Big Iron) are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications.
Maximize: To make the window larger.
Memory: Also known as data, this is what remembers stuff and stores it.
Menu: A list of items.
Menu Bar: A bar with items listed.
Microcomputer: A sometimes very small computer. Such as a calculator.
Microprocessors: A much smaller processor.
Minimize: To make a window smaller.
Modem: Usually a box like shape, that supports internet.
Motherboard: The main part of the computer.
Mouse: A device used to navigate the computer.
Mouse buttons: Left and right click. Use to click items ect.
Move: Dragging.
MS-DOS: A trademark for a computer operating system.
Multimedia software: Software usually for entertainment.
Multitasking: Doing more than two things at once
My computer: A file that allows you to view your PC.
My documents: Your documents located on your computer.
My network places: In the Microsoft Windows operating systems, My Network Places is the network browser feature in Windows Explorer from Windows 2000 and Windows Me onwards. It was formerly known as Network Neighborhood in Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98.
Network: A list of internet.
Network drive: A local drive to a list of internet.
Network operating system: A network operating system (or also named NOS) is a piece of software that controls a network and its message (e.g. packet) traffic and queues, controls access by multiple users to network resources such as files, and provides for certain administrative functions, including security.
nonimpact printers: A type of printer that does not operate by striking a head against a ribbon. Examples of nonimpact printers include laser and ink-jet printers. The term nonimpact is important primarily in that it distinguishes quiet printers from noisy (impact) printers.
Notebook computer: A small laptop/computer.
Operating system: The type of program your entire computer uses such as Windows vista, MAC OS X.
Optical storage devices: Optical storage is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning disc. An older example, that does not require the use of computers, is microform. There are other means of optically storing data and new methods are in development. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism or semiconductors.
Option buttons: Buttons that have different options.
Output devices: devices that are on the out of the system.
Parallel ports: Ports that are parallel.
Parent folder: A folder that contains subfolders and files. When discussing command-line activities, this may be called the parent directory.
People: Any group of human beings (men or women or children)
Personal information managements software (PIMS): Refers to both the practice and the study of the .... Free and open-source collaborative software.
Plotter: A plotter is a computer printing device for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were widely used in applications such as computer-aided design.
Plug and play: In computing, plug and play is a term used to describe the characteristic of a universal computer bus, or device specification.
Pointer: In computer science, a pointer is a programming language data type whose value refers directly to (or "points to") another value stored elsewhere.
Pointing device:A pointing device is an input interface that allows a user to input spatial commands.
Presentation software: presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show.
Problem solving: the area of cognitive psychology that studies the processes involved in solving problems
Protocol: rules determining the format and transmission of data.
Radio buttons: Buttons on a radio.
Random access memory (RAM): the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on
Read-only memory (ROM): memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed
Receiver: set that receives radio or tv signals
Relational database: database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes.
Restore: To put back in order.
Right-click: To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse
Scanner: an item used to scan stuff.
Scroll bar: A bar used to scroll up and down pages.
search: to look
Search engines: Different types of programs used to search around the web.
Select (highlight): To hover over an item.
Sender: Someone who sends things.
Serial ports: a serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time.
Shortcut: A faster way of getting to something
Shortcut keys: a keyboard shortcut or hotkey is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user.
Shortcut menu: When the user clicks an object with the right mouse key, a shortcut menu (or context menu) pops up. This menu contains specialized commands and options for the object.
Shortcut menu button: A right mouse click or middle click mouse operation.
Software: Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. It provides the instructions telling a computer what to do.
Software development: The term software development (also known as Application Development; Software Design, Designing Software, Software Engineering, Software Application Development, Enterprise Application Development, Platform Development) is often used to refer to the activity of computer programming, which is the process of writing and maintaining the source code, and all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software.
Sorting: Is any process of arranging items in some sequence and/or in different sets.
Source: The place where something begins, origin.
Spreadsheet: Is a computer application that looks like a paper, accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns.
Spreadsheet software : A computer program (Microsoft Excel) that shows rows of figures and performs calculations with them. Spreadsheet software is often used to work out sales, taxes, profits, and other financial information.
Standard Desktop : When you get a new computer it will be fully set up with a standard suite of basic software, and it will have a standard appearance. Computers will come ready with an operating system, and software like Word, Excel, and a web browser will be already loaded and ready to use.
Standard toolbar : the bar of icons (save, print, help, etc.) on the screen below the menu bar in applications such as Microsoft Word.
Start button: allows users to access their computer programs or configure Microsoft Windows easily. Start button also known as the Start Orb is simply the Windows logo in a circle and is found in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Start is also a command that enables a user to start a separate window.
Status bar: The status bar is the box at the bottom of the browser window. The main use of the status bar is to show the progress of the loading of web pages into the browser window. Another use of the status bar is that it shows the URL of a hypertext link when the cursor is over the link.
Subfolder: A folder contained within another folder.
Example: Having a music folder. And the other folders inside the music folder are
separated for their different genres. R&B, rap, rock, etc.
Submenu: Term used to describe a menu that is contained within another menu. For example, in most programs, a submenu is often identified by having a small arrow pointing to the edge of the option.
Supercomputers: A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. A supercomputer is typically used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both).
Surge protectors: Surge protectors protect your electronics from power surges (increase in voltage) in your electrical system.
System clock: an electronic device in a computer that issues a steady high-frequency signal that synchronizes all the internal components. Each of these vibrates at a specific frequency, normally measured in MHz (megahertz, or millions of cycles per second). The ticking of these clocks is what drives the various circuits in the PC, and the faster they tick, the more performance you get from your machine.
Systems software: refers to the files and programs that make up your computer's operating system. System files include libraries of functions, system services, drivers for printers and other hardware, system preferences, and other configuration files. The programs that are part of the system software include assemblers, compilers, file management tools, system utilities, and debuggers.
Task bar: The task bar is the long horizontal bar at the bottom of your screen which shows you which programs and documents you have open and allows you to quickly switch between them.
Technology: Is the application of science or knowledge to commerce and industry.
Telecommunications: Telecommunication is the transmission of messages, over significant distances, for the purpose of communication. Telecommunications includes telephone, television, and Internet communications services.
Teleconferencing: Is a telephone or video meeting between participants in two or more locations. Teleconferences are similar to telephone calls, but they can expand discussion to more than two people.
Title bar: The title bar is the bar that runs horizontally across an application window. The title bar will contain either the name of the file, for example, a document you are viewing or the website you are viewing through your Internet browser.
Toolbar: A series of selectable buttons that give the user an easy way to select desktop, application or Web browser functions. Tool bars are typically displayed as either a horizontal row or a vertical column.
Tree pane: The tree pane shows the overall hierarchical structure of the pages
Troubleshooting: is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes. It is the search for the source of a problem so that it can be solved, and so the product or process can be made operational again.
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS): is a device that allows your computer to keep running for at least a short time when the primary power source is lost. It also provides protection from power surges. A UPS contains a battery that "kicks in" when the device senses a loss of power from the primary source.
Universal serial bus (USB): is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller (usually personal computers). USB can connect computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards, digital cameras, printers, personal media players, flash drives.
Unix: is a computer operating system.
User interface: the user interface is (a place) where interaction between humans and machines occurs, including display screen, keyboard, mouse, light pen, the appearance of a desktop, illuminated characters, help messages, and how an application program or a Web site invites interaction and responds to it.
Utility software: is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. Examples: Disk Defragmenters, Data Recovery, Registry Cleaners.
Virus: is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer.
Wide area networks (WANs): is a communications network that makes use of existing technology to connect local computer networks into a larger working network that may cover both national and international locations.
Wildcard characters: is a special character that represents one or more other characters. The most commonly used wildcard characters are the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?).Run* would mean "any word that starts with 'run' and has any kind of ending."
Window: (trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface.
Windows Explorer: is an application that provides detailed information
about your files, folders, and drives.
You can use it to see how your files are organized
and to copy, move, and rename files,
as well as perform other
tasks pertaining to files,
folders, and drives.
Wizard: A Wizard is a tool to guide you through the steps of a process or task by
asking a series of questions or
presenting options.
A Wizard might help you to start up a word processing document, install software,
or create a database
file for the first time.
Word-processing software: Software that enables you to create a document,
store it electronically on a disk,
display it on a screen,
modify it by entering commands and characters from the keyboard,
and print it on a printer.
-Wayne Campbell Jr.
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