Thursday, December 30, 2010
Podcast
Is a series of digital media files (audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through the web.
Internet Protocol (IP) Address
Is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
Domain
A set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in the area of computer programming.
Home PAge
home page: Is when you save a page as your home page the next time you open an browser that page will appear.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
urban legend
An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modernfolklore consisting of stories usually believed by their tellers to be true.
trojan Horse
Is malware that appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to run or install but instead unauthorized access of the user's computer system.
teleconferencing
Is the live exchange of information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system.
RDF summary
A product to display content from other web sites provided they make it available in RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92 or RSS 1.0 format.
Pyramid Schemes
Scheming people into investing their "company", but really those people are robbing people of their money. Pyramid Schemes are illegal.
Phishing
The act of sending a email, to a person and falsely claim to be someone else so that person can steal you personal information.
Netiquette
Is a set of social conventions that interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums.
Logic Bomb
A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function, means crashes a user computer.
Filtering
Filtering is the act of deciding which data packets are allowed to be sent and which packets should not be sent.
Windows Mail
Windows Mail is an email program (email client) that lets you to compose, send, receive and manage email accounts and messages.
User Agent
A user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.
Spam
Much of spam email is simply deceptive advertisements, attempting to entice the reader to click on links to view a product or service.
Mailing Lists
A list of users of the Internet or another computer network who all receive copies of electronic mail messages.
Electronic Mail
Electronic mail is known as e-mail which allows to send messages to other people who have e-mail addresses on the internet.
Distribution List
A distribution list, also known as a mailing list, is a collection of email addresses that allows you to email multiple people at one time.
Address Book
An address book or a name and address book is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts .
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
WLAN is a type of Local Area Network (LAN) that uses high frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate and transmit data among nodes.
Router
A router is an electronic device that is used to connect two or more computers together and usually to the Internet.
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
Public Switched Telephone Network, is a circuit-switched network that is used primarily for voice communications worldwide
Peer-Peer Network
A local-area network in which there is no central controller and all the nodes have equal access to the resources of the network.
Local Area Conector (LAN)
A local area network (LAN) is a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link.
Intranet
Computer network with restricted access, as within a corporation, that uses Internet technology
Hacker
A hacker is someone who invades another person's private information by bypassing security programs and passwords.
Extranet
An extranet is used to safely share business information with its partners through a private internet network
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
It is a broadband internet connection that is offered by many phone companies, and it is comparable to cable broadband internet.
Client/ Server Network
A client server network describes a computer network with a centralized file server which stores and distributes file and data services for client computers which are referred to as workstations.
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