Archive for the ‘Word of the week’ Category

Word of the Week: Crash

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Word of the Week: Crash

Crash is a serious computer problem that causes a program to stop or for the whole computer to stop working.

Word of the Week: Boot

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Word of the Week: Boot

Boot means to start up a computer. For example, “boot-up you computer” or “reboot” as in to restart.

Word of the Week: Backup

Monday, June 15th, 2009
Word of the Week: Backup

Backup is duplicate copy of a file. You should backup your data files regularly so you have a spare copy if the original is accidentally damaged or lost.

More articles on backing-up can be found here.

Word of the Week: Back Slash

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Word of the Week: Back Slash

The back slash the character or \ . On most computer keyboards the back slash key is located the bottom-left corner of the main section of the keyboard, although this is not always the case.

Word of the Week: Malware

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Word of the Week: Malware

Malware is the merger of  the words malicious and software. It  is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code. The term ‘computer virus’ is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, including true viruses.

Word of the Week: Botnet

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Word of the Week: Botnet

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.

Word of the Week: ‘Enter’ key

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Word of the Week: 'Enter' key

‘Enter’ key: The Enter key is found on the right-hand side of the keyboard. In most cases the key has the text written on it – either ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ and then an arrow that starts on the right, goes downwards slightly and the veers off to the left. On some other machines there is no text, just the arrow.

More info on the Enter key can be found here.

Word of the Week: DRM

Monday, March 16th, 2009
Word of the Week: DRM

DRM: DRM stands for ‘Digital Rights Management’ which is used for protecting files from being used by all users (everybody and anyone)  and limited its use to only selected users. DRM is often used on major music stores to make sure only the purchaser of the music is the one who uses it, and so that that they cannot redistributed it to anyone else for free.

Word of the Week: Link

Monday, March 9th, 2009
Word of the Week: Link

Link: The Internet is made of many different Web pages. The computer software that people use to make these pages lets us go to other pages in a very fast and easy way, simply by clicking on either a picture or text link to get to another page.

Word of the Week: Twitter

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Word of the Week: Twitter

Twitter: Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.