| A unit of computer memory equivalent to one keyboard character. A string of electric pulses (on's and off's) represented by 1’s and 0’s. |
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| Computer machine language using ones and zeros. |
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| A desk accessory found in the menu that allows you to set the level of sound, how fast the insertion point blinks, colors, time, date, etc. |
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| A tiny piece of silicon covered with paths or circuits through which electric pulses move; an integrated circuit. |
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| The feature that automatically moves you down to the next line when the line you’re on is full |
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| To prepare a disk for use on a particular computer (initialize). This erases the disk completely. Disks can be formatted again and again. |
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Universal Resource Locator. A Web address. Example: http://www.yahoo.com
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| Graphics Interchange Format. Good for making small files. |
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| Programs which are distributed free on the Internet. If you like the program and use it, you should pay the small fee. |
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| One billion bytes of information. (1024 Megabytes) |
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| To bring a different part of a document into view. Most documents are larger than the viewing area. |
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| Magnetic storage device which holds large quantities (usually megabytes or gigabytes) of data. |
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| A device which takes a picture of piece of paper and then displays that image on the computer screen so that it may be edited |
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| Pronounced jay-peg. Allows you to compress files so that they take up less memory. This is particularly good for graphics online. |
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| Read Only Memory, permanent memory found in the computer or on CD’s. It cannot be changed. |
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| One million bytes of information. |
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| The small box in the lower-right corner of a window containing two squares, which when dragged, changes the size and shap. |
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| What moves on the screen when you move the mouse. It’s most common shape is the “arrow.” |
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| To restart your computer. |
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| Software used to make the computer do something specific. For example: ClarisWorks, HyperStudio, Word, and Print Shop. |
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