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Technology from A to Z. W o r d s & D e f i n i t i o n s By Susan West – Nevitt Computer Lab. The place that displays the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or “address” of a web page. Address Bar. Browser. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Technologyfrom A to Z
W o r d s & D e f i n i t i o n s
By Susan West – Nevitt Computer Lab
The place that displays the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or “address” of a web page.
Address Bar
An internet browser is
the program used to
access the internet and
view web pages on a computer.
Browser
CPUA CPU or Central
Processing Unit
Is the “brains”
of the computer.
Desktop The Desktop is the main computer
screen that shows icons that stand for files and
folders.
E-mail A system for
sending Electronic Mail messages from one computer
to another.
Dear Max,Sending an e-mail to see how you aredoing and tell you I will be visiting soon.Sending my love, Brianna
Flash Drive A small portable storage device that
plugs into a computer USB port
to transfer information from one computer to
another.
Google A widely used
search engine to find web pages with information
about a particular subject.
Hard Drive Computer
hardware inside a computer’s
CPU that holds information on
a magnetic disk.
Icon An Icon is a small picture representing a program,
file or object saved on the hard drive.
JPEGJPEG is a standard format for compressing and storing pictures on the hard drive.
JPEG is an abbreviation for `Joint Photographic Experts Group'
Keyboard
The keyboard is used to type letters, numbers and symbols as
well as a variety of functions.
Laptop A laptop computer is a smaller, lighter, portable version of
a desktop computer, that can
be used almost anywhere.
Monitor/Mouse
A mouse is a hand-operated device that controls the position of the cursor on the computer
screen as you move it.
A monitor is the display screen for a computer.
Network A computer network is
several computers linked
together to communicate
and share information.
Online Being online means having an
open line of communication
by being connected to a
computer or the internet.
Printer A printer is connected to a computer and able to receive and print text or pictures on
paper.
Qwerty
A Qwerty keyboard is the standard English language typewriter keyboard layout.
A Qwerty keyboard is the standard English language typewriter
keyboard layout.
Restart/Reboot
To have the computer shut down
and start up again.
Scroll Bar A scroll bar is a long thin box along one edge
of a window, which you click
on to move text up and
down or across the window.
Toolbar
A A toolbar is a row of buttons on the display screen that you click to
select various functions.
USB Universal Serial Bus is a means of connecting a
device to a computer so that they can communicate and exchange
data.
VirusA virus is a man-
made program that can cause
harm to computer files and programs.
Website A website is a
collection of pages containing
specific information on a particular topic
that was searched for.
XP Windows XP is an
operating system, which is software
that communicates with the hardware and allows other programs to run.
You Tube You Tube is a
video sharing website where
people can upload their
videos and view other people’s
videos.
Zip file A Zip file is a computer file
containing data that has been compressed to
reduce the size of the file.