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3D Printer Absolute Cell Reference Abstraction Accent Acceptable Use Access Levels Access Rights Access Time Accumulator Accuracy Acronym Act Actionscript Active cell Actuator Adaptor ADC Address Address Bus ADSL Adware Algorithm Alignment Alphanumeric Alpha Testing ALU Amplitude Analogue Analogue to Digital Converter Anchor AND operator Animation Annotation Anti Spam Filter Anti Virus Software Append Applet Application Application layer Architecture Archiving Data Arithmetic and Logic Unit Argument Arithmetic operator Array Array traversal Arrow keys Artificial Intelligence ASCII Assembly Language Asymmetric Asynchronous Athlon ATM Attachment Attribute Audience Audio Audit Log Authoring tools Automated Data Input Automated Teller Machine Automatic Automatic Data Capture Autosum Auxilliary Storage AVI Axis

Back Door Back-end Back up Backing Storage Backward Compatible Bandwidth Banner Advert Barcode Bar Code Readers BASIC Batch File Batch Processing Baud Rate BCC Bespoke Software Beta Testing Bias Binary Code Binary Search Bing Search Biometrics BIOS Bit Bitmap Bits Per Second Blind Carbon Copy BLOB Blog Blue Screen Bluetooth BMP BPS Bookmark Boolean Boolean Search Boot Bridge British Computer Society Broadband Broadcast Browser Buffer Bug Bulletin Board Bus Bus Network Buzzer Byte

Cable Cache CAD CAL CAM Capacity Carbon Copy Cascading Style Sheet CAT 5 Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) CD CD-R CD-RW CC Celeron Cell Cell Phone Cell Reference Central Processing Unit CGI CGI Bin CGI Script Chart Chat Room Check Digit Chip Chip and Pin Circuit Switching Client Clip Art Clipboard Clock Clock Speed Closed Loop Control System Closed Source software Cloud ... CMOS Co-Axial Cable Code of Conduct Code of Practice Codec Collision Column Comma Separated Values Command Line Interface Command Prompt Common Gate Interface Compact Disk Compiler Complex Search Component Compression Computer Computer Modelling Computer Aided Design Computer Aided Learning Computer Aided Manufacturing Computer Control Computer Engineering Computer Misuse Act Computer Virus Concept Keyboard Conditional Formatting Configuration File Configuration File Connectivity Constant Contrast Ratio Control Panel Control Program Control Unit Cookie Copyright Copyright, Designs and Patents Act Core Countif CPU Cracker Crash CRC Creative Industry Creative Commons Licence Crop Cross Field Check CSS CSV Currency Current Instruction Register (CIR) Cursor Custom software Custom written software Cyber Bullying Cyberspace Cybersquatting Cyborg Cyclic Redundancy Check Cylinder

Daisy Wheel Printer Data Bus Data Capture Form Data Centre Data Collision Data Commissioner Data Compression Data Controller Data Dictionary Data Entry Form Data Flow Diagram Data Integrity Data Logger Data Logging Data Mining Data Model Data Packet Data Pipe Data Processing Data Protection Act Data Redundancy Datasheet View Data Subject Data Type Data User Database Database Entity Database Field Database Record Daughterboard DBMS DDR De Facto Standard De Jure Standard Debug Decode Decryption Dedicated Line Default Defrag Delete Delimiter Demodulate Demo Version Denial of Service Design View Desktop Desktop Publishing Developer Device Dialogue Dial-up Digital Digital Certificate Digital Divide Digital Projector Digital Signature Digital TV Digital Versatile Disk Directory DirectX Disaster Planning Disaster Recovery Disk Drive Disk Operating System Distance Learning Distributed System Distributed Database DLL Document Domain name Dongle DOS Dot Matrix printer Double Data Rate Download DPA DPI Draft DRAM Dreamweaver Drill Down Driver Drop Down List DSL DTP Dual Core Processor DRAM DVD DX technology Dynamic Addressing Dynamic Link Dynamic Link Library Dynamic RAM

E-book Ecommerce EDI Editor EFT EFTPOS Electro-Magnetic Electronic Electronic Data Interchange Electronic Funds Transfer Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale Electronic Mail Email Email links Embedded Device Encode Encryption End User Entity Entity Relationship Diagram E-paper EPROM ERD Ergonomics Errors Esafety Ethernet Ethics Evaluation Event Excel Exclusive OR logic operator Execute Expert System Exploit Extranet Extreme Data

Facebook Face recognition Facsimile Fact FAQ FAST Fat Client Fatal Error Fax Feasibility Study Feedback Fetch Fibre Optic Field Field Check Field Length Field Size Field Name File File Compression File Extension File Manager File Permissions File Request File Server File streaming File Structure File Transfer Protocol Fill Fill handle Filter Firefox Firewall Fireworks Firmware First Normal Form Fitness for Purpose Flaming Flash Flash Memory Flash ROM Flat File Database Floating Point Floor Turtle FLOPS Floppy Disk Flowchart FLV FNF Folder Font Footer Foreign Key Form Form Feed Format Formula Bar Fortran Forum Frame Rate Freeware Front End FTP Function Function Key Fuzzy Logic

Games Console Gantt Chart Garbage in, garbage out Gateway Gb Geek General Purpose Computer Generation Generic Software GHz GIF Gigabyte Gigaflops GigaHertz GIGO Global Positioning System GNU Goal Seek Google Gopher GPS GPU Graph Graphical User Interface Graphics Graphics Card Graphics Library Graphics Package Graphics Plotter Graphics Tablet Green Screen Greyscale Gridline GUI

Hacker Hacking Hamming Code Handshaking Hanging indent Hard Code Hard Copy Hard Disk Hardware Harvard architecture Hashing HCI Header Headphones Health & Safety Heatsink Help Desk Hexadecimal Hierarchy High Level Language Hit Home Page Host Hot Fix Hotmail Hotspot HTML HTTP Hub Hue Human Computer Interface Hyperlink Hypertext Hypertext Markup Language Hypertext Transfer Protocol Hypotheses

IAS Icon ICT Identity Theft IF Statement Image Image Map Immediate Access Store Implementation Import Index Indent Inference Engine Infinite loop Information Information managment Information Super Highway Infrared control Infrastructure Inkjet Printer Input Input Device Input Mask Insert Sort Install Instant Messaging Instruction Instruction Register Integer Integrated Circuit Integrated Package Integrity Intellectual Property Interpreter Interactive Processing Interactive Whiteboard Interface Internet Internet Protocol Internet Protocol Television Internet Relay Chat Internet Service Provider Interrogate Interrupt Intranet IP Address Ipod IPTV IRC ISDN Isometric ISP Iteration

Jargon JavaScript JPEG Justifying Text

Kerning Key Field Key Frame Key Logger Keyboard Keypad Kilobyte KiloHertz Knowledge

Label LAN Laptop Large Language Model LLM Language Translator Laser Printer Layout LCD Leased Line LED Legend Levels of Access Laser pointer Link Bar Linux Liquid Crystal Display Local Area Network Logic Logo Logon / Login Logging Logical Operator Logic Bomb Logic Error Lookup Table Loop

Machine Code Macro MAR Mail Merge Mainframe Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Magnetic Stripe Reader Magnetic storage Magnetic Tape Main memory Malicious Damage Malware MAN Management Information System Marquee tools Memory Address Register MDR Memory Data Register Megabyte MegaFLOPS MegaHertz Memory Memory Card Memory Stick Memory technologies Menu Menu Interface Merge Merge Sort Meta Tag Metropolitan Area Network MICR Microchip Microcomputer Microphone Microprocessor Midi Minicomputer MIS MMORPG MMS messaging Mnemonic code Mobile Phone Model Modelling Modem Modulate Monitor Moore's Law Motherboard Motion Guide Mouse Mouse Mat MP3 MPEG-4 MS DOS Multicore processor MySpace

Natural Language Navigation Nerds Netscape Network Network Cable Network Computer Network Interface Card Network Operating system Network Manager Network Router Newsgroup Nibble Non Volatile Memory NOT logical operator Numeric

OCR Offline Off the shelf software OMR Online Online banking Open Loop Control System Open Source Open Systems Interconnection Operating System Optical Character Recognition Optical Device Optical Storage Optical Mark Reader Optimise OR logical operator OSI Output Output Device Overclocking

Packet Packet Switching Page Layout Pages Per Minute Pagination Paper-based Database Parallel port Parallel processing Parity check Parser Partitioned database Password Paste Patents Act (1977) PC PCI PDF Peer-to-Peer Pentium Processor Peripheral Peripheral Component Interconnect Peripheral Driver Perl Personal Computer Personal Data Petabyte Phishing PHP Piczo Piracy Pixel Plasma Screen Plotter Plugin Podcast Point size Port Portal Power Supply Unit PowerPoint PPM Preloader Presence Check Presentation Presentation Graphics Primary Key Primary Storage Printer Printscreen Printpreview Procedure Process Processor Program Program Counter Programming Language Prompt Engineering Proofread Protocol Prototype Proxy Settings Proxy Server PSTN PSU Public Information System Public Switched Telephone Network

Quad Core Processor Quality of information Query Query Operators Questionnaire Quicksort Qwerty Keyboard

RAD RAM Random Access Random Access Memory Range Check Ransomware Rapid Application Development Raster Read Only Memory Real Number Real Time Processing Record Redirect Redundancy Referential integrity Refresh signal Region Locking Register Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Relational Database Relationship Relative Cell Reference Remote Control Repeater Repetitive Strain Injury Report Research Resolution RFID Rich Text Format Ring Network RIPA Robot ROM Router Routine Row Row Source RSI RTF Rule

Satellite Save Scanner Scanning Scart Scenario Screen Screensaver Screenshot Script Scroll Bar SCSI Search Engine Second Normal Form Secondary Key Secondary Storage Sector Secure Socket Layer Semantic Sensor Sequence Serial Access Series Server Shareware Shortcut Silicon Chip Simulation Site Map Slide Slide Master Smart Card Smart Home SMS SNF Social Networking Site Soft Copy Software Software Developer Software Piracy Software Registration Solid State storage Sort Source Code Sound card Sound File Spaghetti Code Spam Speaker Speech Recognition Spell Checker Splash Screen Spreadsheet Sprite Spyware SQL SRAM SSL Stand Alone Computer Standard Star Network Static RAM Storage Storage Devices Storage Media Storyboard Structured Query Language Subroutine Sum Supercomputer Surfing Switch Switchboard Synchronous Syntactic Syntax System System Software Systems Analysis Systems development

Table Tablet computer Tab stops Tag Tape Cartridge Tape Streamer TCP Technology Telecommunications Teleworking Template Test Plan Terabyte Terminal Text Text Editor Text Frame Text Links Texting TFLOPS TFT Thermistor Thermocouple Thin Client Third Normal Form Thumbnail TLS TNF Toolbar Top Down Design Topology Touch Screen Tracker Ball Transaction File Transaction Processing Transcription Error Transducer Transistor Translator Transmission Control Protocol Transport Layer Security Transposition Error Trial Version Troll Trojan Troubleshooting Turtle Type Validation

Uniform Resource Locator Unique cell reference Universal Serial Bus Unix Upload URL USB User User Documentation User ID User Interface User Name Utility

Validation Validity Value Variable VBA VDU Vector image Verification Video Conference Virtual Learning Environment Virtual Memory Virtual Reality Virus Visual Basic Applications Visual Display Unit VLE VLOOKUP Voice Recognition VoIP Volatile Memory Von Neumann architecture

WAN WAP Web Browser Web Cam Web Designer Web Log Web Page Web Query Web Server Website Website Hit Website Host Wetware Wide Area Network Wi-Fi Wildcard Wiki WIMP Wipe Wireless Wireframe Wireless Application Protocol Wizard Word Wrap Workbook Worksheet Workstation World Wide Web Worm Wrap text WWW WYSIWYG

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