Monday, October 26, 2009

1. brick and mortar -refers to a company that possesses a building of store for operations


2. upload-the sending of data from a local system to a remote system


3. hypertext-text despalyed on acomputer


4. url- uniform recource locator


5. virus- software programs designed to interfere with computer operations deliberatley


6. hypertlink- referance in a document to an external piece of information


7. browser- software application for retrieving,presenting,and traversing information recourses on the World Wide Web


8. chatroom- primarley used by mass media to descride any form of synchronous conferencing


9. login- process by which individual access to a computre system is controlled by indentification of the user using credentials provided by the user


10. logon- a website that allows you to have a user ID and a password to get in

11. hypermidea- a logical extension of the term hypertext


12. cookie- a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser


13. internet-globalized system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite


14. netiquette- set of social convections that facilitate interaction over networks,ranging from Usenetand mailing lists to blogs and forums



15. web address- the url on a page of a website


16. denial of service- an attempt to make a compuer recource unavavilable


17. Internet Explorer-a series of graphical web browsers developed by microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems


18.Mozilla Firefox- a free and open source web browsers decended form the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.


19.web page- a dcoument or recource of infrormation that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser displayed on a computer screen.


20.dot com-a company that does most of its work on the internet, usually thoruggh a website that uses a popular top-level domain, ".com"

Thursday, October 22, 2009

1. DVD-Digital video disk

2. Laser-a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper

3. SD ram-synchronous dynamic random access memory

4. Router-networking device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information

5. Scanner-a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image.

6. Intel-world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers.

7. Zip drive-data storage device

8. Fire wire -A high-speed serial bus that was developed by Apple, Texas Instruments and others via the IEEE.

9. Microprocessor-A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit (CPU).

10. Flash card-an insert into a digital camera to be used as storage for photographers taken with a camera.