Tuesday, October 4, 2011

vocab 6

1.     Acceptable Use Policy: is a set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used.

2.    Freeware: is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee

3.    Copyright: A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to the creator of an original work or their assignee for a limited period of time upon disclosure of the work.

4.    Pop3: (Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail.


5.    Search Engine: search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.

6.    Ping: a computer network used to test the reachability of a host on an internet protocol

7.    PDF: Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.

8.    Shareware: The term shareware (also known as trialware or demoware) is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality

9.    Protocol:  A protocol is a special set of rules that enable communication between two computers.

10.  Commercial Software:  software that is use to serve as commercial recourse.

11.  Public Domain: public domain may refer to ideas, information, and works

12.  Dedicated connection: How connected you are all the time.

13.  Dedicated Line: one line that runs both a telecommunication devise and the internet.

14.  Cookie:  cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site.

15.  IMAP: Internet message access protocol (IMAP) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol (POP).

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