Speaking: Glossary of ICT terms

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Audio-mp3
It is a digital encoding format using a form of data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital players.
Blog
is a Website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video
Compact Disc
It is a storage medium capable of storing programs and data. They are available in two formats CD-R and CDRW.
Downloading
It is the transmission of a file from one computer system to another, usually smaller computer system.
Search Engine
It is a site designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images and other types of files. Google is the most famous one
Firewall
Software that protects the computer from persons accessing the services and data held on a computer for malicious purposes.
Google
It is the world's most popular search engine which looks for Web pages not just by content and keywords, but by how many other pages linked.(Also, the large number 10100 )
Hacking
Term used to describe the unauthorised access of a computer as a means to gain information that the hacker is not entitled to or to access services and facilities for malicious purposes.
Internet bookmarks
They are stored Web page locations (URLs) that can be retrieved. They easily catalog and access web pages that a user has visited and chosen to save
JPEG
It is a compressed image file format which can contain colourful, high-resolution image data
(Containing K)
WIKI
It is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Backronym for "What I Know Is".
Login
If you are ever asked to enter your username and password, you are being asked to enter your information. It is a combination of information that authenticates your identity.
Microsoft (Powerpoint)
It is a presentation program developed by (Name of the company). And it is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasive technology.
(Social) Network
It is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as visions, ideas, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade.
Online
The term usually means being connected to the Internet through a phone line via a cable modem, or through a wireless connection
Podcast
It is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. ("Personal On Demand broadCASTING")
(Containing Q)
Webquest
It is a learning activity used by educators in which learners read, analyze, and synthesize information using the WWW. (an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet)
RSS
It is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format. : "Really Simple Syndication”
Streaming (multimedia)
It is multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while it is being delivered by a provider (e.g. radio, television)
(Information, Comunications,)
Technology
It is an umbrella term that includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information.
Uploading
It is sending a file from your computer to another system.
Video
It is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of images representing scenes in motion.
Web 2.0
It is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.
(Containing X )
(internet) Explorer
It is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and probably the most widely used web browser
Yahoo!
It is one of the Internet's leading search engines and the largest Web portal, providing links to thousands of other websites such as mail, messenger, shopping, news,…
Zip file
A compressed file which involves compressing one or more items into a smaller archive- it takes up less hard drive space and takes less time to transfer to another computer

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