‘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.

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.

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.

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.

Blog: Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. Anyone can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts. (more…)

Cookies: A small text file that websites put on your computer to store information about you and your preferences. Internet sites use cookies to offer a personalised experience to users and to gather information about website use. (more…)

Word of the Week: Quick Launch

The Quick Launch toolbar is the section of the taskbar near the Start menu where you can add shortcuts to programs your favourite programs. (more…)

Megabyte: A megabyte is a measurement of size. 1 megabyte (or 1MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, just like the metric scale. Typically, a single photo at good or high quality will be roughly 1 MB. A single music track at standard quality and stored as an MP3, will be about 3MBs

VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocal is basically a phone call that is made using the Internet rather than the conventional telephone network. A now popular example of VOIP technology is Skype.

FAQs: A page on a website which gives answers to common problems and questions. You can often find an FAQs section if you have a problem with something, before you email or phone for support. It is a common, popular slang term.

Note: thetechangel.com has one here.