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-Digital Audio Broadcasting, or Digital Radio to you and
me!
- a program that stores information in tables. This allows
you to search, sort and use it in many different ways.
- law that protects personal information stored
electronically and on paper. It gives you the right to see data held
about you and prevent it being passed on without your
permission.
- camera that takes photographs and stores them on disks or
smart cards rather than on film. The photos can then downloaded onto a
computer where the images can be printed, put on a web page or e-mailed.
- Disk Operating System. What PCs used before Windows. It
is a non-graphical system where a menu or typed commands are used to
give commands.
- a commercial website. Comes from the .com address which
is used mainly by businesses in the United States.
- software which runs hardware attached to your computer
like a modem, printer or scanner. New hardware normally comes with a CD
containing the necessary drivers to install on your computer.
- internet connection using a phone line. You have to dial
a number (using your computer) and usually give a password before you
can gain access to the internet, e-mail, etc.
- a folder where a computer stores other files and
information. Keeping files on the same topic together in the same
directory is a good way to keep track of your files.
- the system that changes a website address (e.g.
www.bbc.co.uk) into a numbered IP address (e.g.
38.160.150.31).
- websites have a domain name so they can be found easily
(e.g. www.bbc.co.uk). The domain name is the part before the forward
slash.
- getting a file onto your computer from another computer
on the internet.
- clicking on an icon or selection, holding the mouse
button down and moving the mouse to 'drag' the selection to a new
location. When the mouse button is released the item is
'dropped'.
- looks like a thick CD but has a greater storage capacity
- up to 4Gb compared to 650Mb on a CD-Rom.
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