A term used within
HTML - tags are codes that tell the
Web browser exactly how to display information, for example there is a Tag to display text in Bold
One of the many different types of
File Format used on PC's. This particular type is a
graphics file i.e. a picture.
A
backup of
data and or other
files to computer tape. The PC has to have an external tape drive attached. The back up is either done on a file by file basis - individual files can be restored or an individual "image" back up of the disk where individual files cannot always be restored.
Transmission Control
Protocol-Internet Protocol
A conference held between different groups of people in different geographic
locations. Each has a PC with a video camera attached. Each person is recorded on the camera & the
image is played back on the other participants PC's by a special
application program.
Telnet is
program that is part of the TCP/IP
protocol. Its purpose is to allow a user to
logon to a computer from a remote
location.
These are
Files that are set up by a
Program because it needs to use them when it runs. For example a
spreadsheet program might want to keep a
record of the last change that was made by the user to allow the change to be "undone" if required. The program may decide to keep the
copy of the changes in a Temporary File. All good programs will delete Temporary Files when they are no longer required.
A terabyte is a unit of measure for
Data Storage. 1 terabyte is equivalent to 1024
Gigabytes or 1,048,576
Megabytes.
These are
DOS programs that sit in
memory so they can be run from within other
application programs
An option within a form. Text areas allow readers to type in larger amounts of information.
A common used term used to describe
ASCII Text
Files.
This term has many different meanings but the most common is with respect to E-mail & newsgroups where a thread is basically a series of messages or
postings all related to the same topic or thread.
A small version of an
image (about the size of your thumbnail). They are slightly smaller than the average toenail. Slightly smaller than the average toenail takes too long too say and is a very silly name, which is why they chose thumbnail.
Tagged
Image File Format
Time out is a term used widely in the world of Information Technology and indicates that some predefined amount of time has been exceeded. If you connect to the
Internet or a
network and do not use the system for a few minutes then you may get timed out i.e. logged off. This generally happens to free up a connection for someone else to use
This is where a computer is used by more than one user at the same time. The
operating system allocates each user's
programs portions of the machine - or time slices.
The Toolbar sits across the top or down the side of a particular Window. The toolbar allows the use to perform certain tasks such as opening a
file or submitting a print. The toolbar can usually be customized so that the user can add those tasks most regularly performed
Topology refers to the physical configuration of a
network or networks. The term is generally used to refer to where each of the component parts is in relation to each other.
Quite simply a standard set of
protocols that govern the
basic workings of the
Internet that was implemented in 1982. The TCP part is all about ensuring that
data is transmitted correctly between 2 computers. If any errors occur these are detected & the data is retransmitted. The data transmitted is split up into small portions called Data
packets. The IP part of TCP/IP is how these data packets are moved from one point to another. Each computer on the internet has a unique
IP address & the data packets are moved from the
source to the destination through many different computers & this is controlled via TCP/IP. This protocol is used on the Internet & also by computers that are part of a
LAN.
Terminate and Stay Resident
Software developed by the Twain Working Group (scanner manufacturers and scanning software developers) in order to facilitate scanning of pictures. The TWAIN driver runs between the scanner
hardware and the
program (Photoshop, PhotoPaint, etc.) According to the Twain Working Group, "TWAIN" is not intended to be an acronym (though there are many "definitions" like "technology without an important name" or "tool without an interesting name").