Desktop | | World Wide Web |
Title Bar | | Internet Browser - an application enabling access to the internet |
Start Button | | A free (very basic) wordprocessing programme |
Broadband | | Search engine provided by Microsoft |
Google | | email accessed via the internet |
Chrome | | At the bottom of the screen - left click to find programmes |
Bing | | A previous operating system |
Microsoft Windows | | Originally (and still) a search engine but now much more |
attachment | | The first screen that appears when you turn on your computer and everything has loaded |
Webmail | | The latest Microsoft suite of programmes |
www | | Universal Resource Locator (Address Bar) |
URL | | Main form of internet connection |
Internet Explorer | | Microsoft spreadsheet enabling you to work with figures and calculations |
link | | Universal Serial Bus - a connection for many devices eg Memory Sticks, Cameras, Printers etc. |
USB | | The bar at the top of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel etc) with information about the application and name of document/workbook |
F12 | | An online encylopedia created and managed by the general public |
Paint | | A drawing application |
Wordpad | | A way of sending documents with emails |
Windows 7 | | Keyboard Shortcut - a way to save documents by pressing this key |
Windows XP | | A social networking site where you can interact with other users |
Vista | | A previous operating system |
Word 2007 | | An online diary similar to having a personal website (Web log) |
Office 2010 | | The latest Microsoft operating system |
Excel 2007 | | Move from page to page via these on the internet - available to click on whenever a hand appears on the screen |
Wikipedia | | Operating System headed by Bill Gates |
Facebook | | The word processing application within the Office 2007 suite of programmes |
Blog | | A social networking site which limits size of entries (ideal for quick thoughts on the go - for example via internet enabled mobile phone |
Twitter | | Internet Browser provided by Google |