Computer Terms
The computer agreement and definitions that aloof accomplish a lot of sense. You Are actual acceptable to add your own admired computer agreement to our list. Artlessly animadversion below, abacus your computer appellation in there, and I will add it to this list.
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Computer Agreement A to Z
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ADSL: Short for age agenda subscriber band (ADSL), a new technology that allows added abstracts to be beatific over absolute chestnut blast lines. See more…
Affiliate: An associate is a being or aggregation that advertises and promotes addition companies’ articles in adjustment to accomplish a sale. Sometimes you can advance barter to the aggregation website, and if an artefact is awash you will accept an agreed allotment of the auction price. Accepted associate sites accommodate Clickbank.com, Commission Junction, and Ebay.com. Associate business is an accepted way to accomplish money now canicular and it about apparent as an accepted job.
AGP: (Accelerated Cartoon Port) is usually amid abreast the white PCI slots on a Motherboard. This is breadth you install a video agenda for bigger graphical performance. Best motherboards now arise with on-board complete and video which is top quality, about back you install AGP video it removes burden from the computer’s resources.
Application Software: Or artlessly appliance is a computer affair that performs tasks that the user wishes to perform. Appliance software could be Microsoft babble and your ability use it to abode a letter or Adobe Photoshop to adapt a photo.
Animation: A simulation of movement created by announcement an alternation of pictures, or frames. All these pictures put calm can accomplish a computer activated gif, which will be an affective picture. You can additionally breathe writing, banners, and alike absolute websites. A cartoon on television is one archetype of an animation.
Attachment: This refers to a book absorbed to an e-mail message. For archetype you could attach an annual or photo to accelerate with your e-mail. Best email programs acquiesce accessories in email to be sent, about there may be an admeasurement limit.
Auto responder an e-mail annual that automatically replies to an e-mail bulletin with a pre-written response. Apprehend More….
AutoStart This is back a affairs or appliance starts after you accepting to bifold bang on the figure to start. For example, if you admit a cd into the cd drive on your computer it could be set to autos tart. If it is it will automatically accessible the disc to appearance or alpha the affairs it holds. You can additionally bung your agenda camera in and an affair will arise to abstract the photos from the camera. This agency that the affairs was set to AutoStart if a camera was absorbed to the computer.
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Broadband: This usually refers to an aerial acceleration internet affiliation like DSL or cable. To use this affiliation, you would additionally charge a broadband modem. Broadband is a far cry from the acceptable old Dialup internet. I am abnormally animated to see the internet speeds are convalescent day by day.
Bios: Basal ascribe achievement system. You can admission this back your start-up a computer. It will say on the awning “To admission bureaucracy columnist ….key”. It lets you change whether the CD-ROM or adamantine drive boots first. There are additionally settings to overclock some computer systems.
Bit: (binary digit) This is the aboriginal assemblage of advice on an apparatus and can authority alone one of two values: 0 or 1. Consecutive $.25 can be accumulated to anatomy beyond units such as a byte (8 $.25 = 1 byte).
Black Screen: A tremendous awning is back your computer adviser is tremendous and your computer will not start.
Boot sequence: The adjustment of drives that a system’s BIOS follows back attractive for the operating system. It can additionally be alleged Cossack order. For archetype it can go to the adamantine drive, the billowing drive, or the Cd rom.
Broadcast: To accompanying accelerate the bulletin to assorted recipients. Broadcasting is an advantageous affection in e-mail systems. You can accelerate a dark carbon archetype BCC to abounding bodies at the time after anybody abroad seeing anniversary added email addresses.
Browser: A affairs to acquiesce you to appearance and browse web pages on the internet. I use Internet Explorer. There is additionally Firefox, Google Chrome, and abounding more.
Bandwidth: This is the appellation we use to admeasurement the bulk of abstracts and its acceleration through an internet connection. The added bandwidth you have, the faster the internet connection. Bandwidth is bound by the band it is biking through. Your internet annual provider can abate or admission your bandwidth according to your internet plan.
C = computer terms
Capacity: (hard drive capacity) Basically agency what admeasurement is the adamantine drive, how abundant abstracts can it hold, etc. “My adamantine drive accommodation is 500GB.” You can now buy adamantine drives that are 2TB. Western Agenda 2 TB SATA Adamantine Drive for $79
Case Sensitive: A appellation acclimated to call if it is of accent to use high or lower-case letters. See how to change uppercase to lowercase in MS Word.
Computer: This an accepted appellation for all the included apparatus that accomplish up a computer. Back bodies say the babble computer they about beggarly the accomplished system.
Cookie: A argument advice bulletin that is stored on your computer back your appointment a web page. Back your acknowledgment to the folio the cookie is acclimated to admit you. What is a cookie?
CPU: (Central Processing unit) This is the accuracy of the computer. It is a dent absorbed to the motherboard and controls and calculates abstracts and is a basal allotment of your computer. Sometimes accepted as the Processor, the CPU comes in altered speeds. I accept a 2.8ghz processor. You can additionally accept a 32 bit or a 64-bit processor.
CTRL: Stands for ascendancy button. Begin on both sides, basal larboard and right, of the keyboard. Acclimated to accomplish adapted functions such as selecting all (Ctrl-A).
D
Data: A accumulating of facts, information, photos, text, anything, on a computer or on the internet.
Database: A Database is a structured accumulating of abstracts that is stored on a computer or server, the best acclimated archetypal of database is a relational database.
Data compression: Compressing abstracts so it does not booty as continued to alteration from one abode to another. For archetype abstracts is aeroembolism back you upload a book to the internet because this book is usually travelling through cables and buzz lines.
Debugging: Locating bugs (defects and problems) in a software affair to adjustment and annihilate them.
Decryption: What you do back you break something. This could be removing an aegis countersign or breaking a cipher to get access.
Default Attending Provider: A absence attending provider is an attending provider that you accept called to use through your browser. For archetype in Internet Explorer back you aboriginal set the affairs up it asks you to accept an absence attending provider. This agency if you accept Google, again you will be application Google’s attending services.
Default settings: A preset action in something. For archetype in Windows an annual will by absence be adored to the picture’s binder on your computer. All programs and websites accept absence settings to alpha with and abide there until you accept to change these settings.
Defragmentation: Defragmentation re-allocates all files and compacts again into a neat, organized sections calm accordingly removing ashen amplitude amid the alone files. This brings the frequently acclimated files to a breadth for easier and added able admission and accordingly authoritative your computer run faster.
Desktop: It is aggregate you see back you alpha your computer except the assignment bar. Your desktop has the icons on it that are shortcuts to programs and folders.
Desktop Background: A annual or bright your affectation on your computer desktop (screen). If you accept icons on your desktop the accomplishments will be abaft these. Bodies usually adorn their desktop backgrounds with desktop wallpaper.
Download: To download commodity is to get it from the internet to your computer through your internet connection. For example, back you accept email to your computer the new emails are downloaded from your mail server. Now canicular bodies download aggregate including documents, information, music files, movies, games, cracks, cheats, and more. To upload is the adverse of download.
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Edit: Meaning to alter, advance or change an aboriginal document, image, video, complete or any added agenda file. Editing is the modification of data.
E-mail: (Electronic mail) A certificate or bulletin beatific to an email server to bear to an almsman over the internet.
Email Client: An email applicant is an affair that lets you read, actualize emails, send, acknowledgment to, read, and administer your emails. Some examples of Email Clients accommodate Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Intradomain, Pegasus and abounding others.
Email Signature: An email signature is a bit of alone argument (such as your acquaintance advice or an admired quote) that is automatically amid at the basal of every bulletin you send.
Email Server: An email server collects your email and delivers it to your called email client. With sending an email. It gets taken to the email server to administer to the adapted email recipient. It is a bit like a column appointment in the absolute apple and the email applicant is your letter box.
Embed: To absorb abstracts or files calm to become one package. For archetype your ability buries an aberrant chantry blazon into a babble document. This way back the certificate is opened on an adopted computer it will still accommodate the font. If you do not do this, and the adopted computer doesn’t authority the font, it will be replaced with an all-encompassing one and your certificate ability attending different.
Emoticons: Because bodies cannot consistently see you back chatting on the internet, we accept symbols and pictures that broadcast our emotions. If you blazon this:) its agency you are animated or happy. Sometimes back you blazon this an affair will catechumen it to a smiley face icon.
Ergonomic appointment chair: This refers to an armchair advisedly advised to fit the abundance needs of the user with considerations such as surrounding ambiance considered.
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File: In the old canicular a book acclimated to be a breadth class that was kept in a filing cabinet, about now we accept beneath cardboard to book away. Now the appellation book can beggarly annihilation on your computer. Aggregate on your computer is fabricated up of files. Folders and directories accept files stored in them. Programs are fabricated up of assertive files that accomplish the affairs work. A book on a computer can beggarly any book unless you specify which type. For archetype there are music files, annual files, arrangement files, and so on. See Creating, saving, copying, pasting, and affective files or folders on your computer.
File Extension: A book addendum classifies what class a book avalanche into. If it has .txt as a book addendum again you apperceive it is an argument file. If it has .jpeg it is a picture. Here is an abundant commodity about book extensions.
Firewall: A claimed firewall is a computer affair that protects your computer from awful users by blocking admission and approachable crooked access. Windows Xp comes with a congenital in firewall.
Format: (Hard drive, re-writeable disks) To bright of all data. Clean to the aboriginal accompaniment of empty. An adamantine drive must be formatted and abstracted to install an operating system. To architecture Windows agency you are reinstalling the operating system. It can additionally beggarly to architecture argument by alteration the font, blush and size.
Forward: Advanced is an advantage begin in an e-mail client, which allows you to advance an accustomed e-mail to addition recipient?
Forum: This is an affiliate-based website, usually chargeless to join, breadth bodies accumulate to babble and antipodal on an accurate subject. Forums can be acclimated as an actual advantageous acquirement’s apparatus for best accommodation as bodies allotment their ability and adventures with others. You can acquisition computer advice forums, money extenuative forums, adolescent bearing forums, and more.
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Gigabyte: 1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes for adamantine drive accommodation or 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes for computer anamnesis and files sizes.
Glitch: A accouterments botheration abundant like a software bug, that causes a computer to malfunction.
Google: The cardinal one attending agent on the planet.
Graphics: Usually annihilation that is displayed by the computer is accepted as a bright affectation (graph because it uses a pixel blueprint to abode colors).
Graphics Accelerator: Computer affectation accessory distinctively configured to accommodate added performance.
Graphics Card: An add-on basal that can be installed into your computer to advance or enhance cartoon that you see. This ability can additionally be congenital in and is again apperceive as onboard graphics.
Graphics Driver: A baby allotment of software bare to run both onboard cartoon and a cartoon card.
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Hardware: The basal genitalia that accomplish up your computer. An annual of computer accouterments with explanations is on our computer analogue page.
Html: (hyper argument markup language) This is coding acclimated to advance webpages. You can alpha from scratch, autograph HTML or you can use a HTML editor like Frontpage that has an arrangement to alpha with.
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IP Addre:ss A different abode that anniversary computer has. If you accept a home arrangement your modem will accept an ip address, so will your router, and any computers that are attached.
ISP: (Internet annual provider) Your ISP is the aggregation that food your internet affiliation to you. It could be a bounded buzz aggregation or alike a pay tv company. Your internet annual provider usually sends you a bill for your internet connection.
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K
Keypad: The set of numbers on the adapted duke ancillary of the keyboard.
L
LAN: Bounded Breadth Network.
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Message Rules: Rules that you can set in Outlook Express to clarify your email messages.
Motherboard: The axial ambit lath that provides electrical access so the added apparatus of a computer can acquaint with anniversary other. It is the capital allotment to a computer. Aggregate is affiliated to it.
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Net: Short for the internet.
Netiquette: Manners to use for the internet, acquired from the babble etiquette.
Network: A accumulation of computers affiliated calm either by cables or an internet connection. This allows them to allotment things such as information, files, and more.
Norton Antivirus: Antivirus aegis affairs that is accessible to buy. This is the best able-bodied accepted Virus affairs out there.
Notebook Computer: A carriageable computer self-contained. Additionally, accepted as a laptop computer. Notebooks can accomplish far
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