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Set Up A Hotmail E-mail Account
This article describes how to register a free Hotmail e-mail address and how to send and receive messages.
Set Up Instant Messaging With Windows Live Messenger
This article describes how to install Windows Live Messenger to send and receive messages instantly.
Back Up E-mails In Outlook Express
This article describes how to back up your Outlook Express e-mail files and how to retrieve them later.
E-mail Attachments
This guide explains how to attach files to messages you want to send by e-mail. There are also tips on what to do with attachments you receive from other people.
Preventing Spam
This guide explains what Spam mail is and how to avoid receiving this type of junk mail.
Start Using Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 is the latest version of Microsoft's free web browser. This guide explains how to set it up and how to use the new features.
Browse The Web With Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a safer alternative to the Internet Explorer web browser. This guide explains how to set up Firefox 2.0, and gives information about its new features.
How To Use Search Engines
This article explains how to find what you are looking for online with the help of a Search Engine web site such as Google or Yahoo!.
Create And Back Up Favorites
This guide explains how to create and backup your Favorites bookmarks. It also shows how to arrange these links to your favourite web sites into folders.
Watch Videos Online
Web video is hugely popular thanks to broadband and sites like YouTube. This guide explains how to find and watch videos online.
Things To Do On The Web
Examples of the types of things you can do on the World Wide Web, with some web sites for you to try. There are web site links for shopping, news, travel, music, sports, games and more.
Links To Useful Web Sites
A list of links to web sites where you can find useful information and downloads. Categories include shopping, sports, e-mail, music and games.
Create A Blog With Blogger
This article explains how to start your own blog to write about your thoughts and experiences.
Create Your Own Web Site
Information and tips on making your own web site.
Making Web Sites - 30 Useful Tools
A list of links to web site design tools.
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Open compressed files
In Windows XP, open compressed Zip files by double-clicking them. Click and drag the files inside out to another folder or the Desktop to extract them.
- Adware
- Advertising program often installed along with other programs
- Attachment
- A file attached to an e-mail message for sending between computers
- Blog
- Web log. Personal web page where the author can post their views and experiences and receive comments.
- BMP
- Bitmap. The most common graphics file type for Windows PCs
- Bookmarks
- List of your favourite web sites
- Browser
- Software that displays web pages such as Internet Explorer and Firefox
- Compression
- A method of reducing the storage space a file takes up. Files must be decompressed to be used again
- Cookie
- Data that tracks visits to web sites and remembers user preferences
- Crash
- Occurs when a program causes your computer to stop responding
- Demo
- Free demonstration version of software that allows you to try before you buy
- Directory
- An index of web site links arranged in categories
- Disk Space
- The size of the area on the hard disk where files can be stored
- Domain name
- URL or Address of a web site on the Internet
- Download
- Transfer a file from another computer to your own
- Driver
- Software required for Windows to use a piece of hardware such as a graphics card
- Electronic mail passed between computers
- Favorites
- List of your favourite web sites
- Firewall
- Program or device that blocks or allows Internet access to a network or a PC
- Flash
- Software to create and play web site animations
- Font
- Text of a particular size and style
- Freeware
- Software that is free to download and use for as long as you like
- Hardware
- Physical parts of a computer system such as the hard disk, keyboard and printer
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language. The code that makes up a web page
- Home Page
- The main page of a web site, often a welcome page
- Hyperlink
- A text or graphic you click on to go to another page or a different web site
- Internet
- A collection of inter-connected computer networks
- Install
- To load and copy program files onto a computer
- JPG / JPEG
- Compressed graphics file for sending across the Internet
- Link
- A text or graphic you click on to go to another page or a different web site
- Malware
- Malicious software such as virus or spyware programs
- Modem
- Device that links a computer to the Internet through a telephone line
- MP3
- Compressed audio file to save disk space and for transfer across the Internet
- Netiquette
- Acceptable behaviour online
- Online
- Connected to the Internet
- Phishing
- Fraudulent e-mails and web sites trying to trick you into giving out personal details
- Plug-in
- Extra programs that can be installed into larger programs to handle special tasks, such as playing certain types of movie files in a browser
- Podcast
- Internet audio broadcast that can be played back on PCs or MP3 players such as the iPod.
- Pop-Up
- Small window that appears on a web page, often used for advertisements.
- Program
- A set of instructions to make a computer carry out a task
- Rootkit
- Software that hides system files and can allow attackers to access your computer undetected
- Router
- Device used in home Internet networks to send data from the web to specific computers
- RSS
- Really Simple Syndication - a system to feed you news stories from web sites
- Search Engine
- Tool that searches the Web for keywords and provides relevant links
- Server
- A computer that holds Internet data such as web site files and can send it to another computer when requested
- Shareware
- Software that is free to download but you pay a fee if you want to continue using it after the trial period
- Shortcut
- A link you can click to go straight to a particular program or web page
- Social Networking
- Web sites based on communication and relying on users to add content
- Software
- A program or a set of instructions to make a computer carry out a task
- Spam
- Junk mail messages to e-mail addresses
- Spyware
- Software that tracks your movements on the Web for advertising purposes without your knowledge
- Stream
- Start playing music or video as soon as it begins downloading
- Surfing
- Moving from one web page to another
- Trial
- Software that allows you to try before you buy
- Trojan
- Malicious virus program disguised as useful software
- Uninstall
- Remove program files from a computer
- Upload
- Send a file from your computer to an online destination
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a web site on the World Wide Web
- Virus
- Destructive program that infects and damages computer files
- Vlog
- Video web log
- VoIP
- Voice over Internet Protocol - voice conversations across the Internet
- WAV
- The standard audio file type for Windows PCs
- Web Page
- Individual page on a web site
- Web Site
- A collection of connected web pages located at a particular domain name
- Wiki
- Web site that can be edited by users to add information
- Windows
- Microsoft operating system installed on most PCs
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- Information space on the Internet stored on servers across the world containing documents connected together through hyperlinks
- Worm
- Malicious code that uses an infected PC to spread itself to others
- Zip
- Compressed file format to reduce diskspace needed by a file and to transfer it between computers more quickly
