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What Is Bloatware?

Difficulty: Medium

Bloatware is a type of software that uses an excessive amount of disk space, memory, battery, and other system resources, reducing its usefulness and slowing the computer down.

What Is A Driver?

Difficulty: Medium

A driver, also known as a device driver, is a computer program without a user interface that enables the operating system and a hardware device to communicate with each other.

What Is An Operating System?

Difficulty: Easy

An operating system, sometimes abbreviated to an OS, is the most important piece of software installed on IT systems that allows the hardware to communicate with and manage all the programs on the computer.

What Is Augmented Reality?

Difficulty: Medium

Augmented reality, abbreviated to AR, is the use of computer technology to create a real-world setting and combine digital content with the user's actual surroundings.

What Is Virtual Reality?

Difficulty: Medium

Virtual reality, abbreviated to VR, is the use of computer technology to create an imitation of a three-dimensional image that can be interacted with...

What Is OCR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Optical Character Reading or Optical Character Recognition. OCR is a technology that recognises and extracts letters from a digital image or a pre-printed form."

What Is OMR?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Optical Mark Reading or Optical Mark Recognition. OMR is a way of entering in data by recognising pencil or pen marks on pre-printed forms.

What Is A Codec?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for a coder-decoder. A codec, sometimes known as a compressor-decompressor is an algorithm used to encode and decode data.

What Is MKV?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Matroska Video. MKV is an all-in-one video format that supports an unlimited number of picture, audio, and subtitle tracks in a single file.

What Is MP4?

Difficulty: Medium

MP4 is a widely used multimedia format that can store high-quality audio and video. It can also be used to store other data, including metadata, subtitles and static images.

What Is SVG?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Scalar Vector Graphic. SVG is a vector image format used to store images as shapes and lines based on mathematical statements rather than pixels of colour.

What Is MOV?

Difficulty: Medium

MOV is a video format that was designed for use with Apple QuickTime software, but can be played using other compatible video software or programs.

What Is AVI?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Audio Video Interleave. AVI is a standard file format developed in 1992 by Microsoft that can store both high-quality video and audio output in a single file.

What Is GIF?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Graphics Interchange Format. GIF is an image format with an 8-bit colour depth, meaning that it can only display 256 different colours from the 24-bit RGB colour space.

What Is BMP?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Bitmap, the BMP file format is used to store Bitmap digital images. It is an uncompressed file format, meaning that high quality is retained, but file sizes are extremely large.

What Is PNG?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Portable Network Graphics. PNG is an image format that uses lossless compression to save high-quality images in a low file size.

What Is JPEG?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is an image format that has a 24-bit colour depth, the same as BMP images, and uses lossy compression to reduce the number of...

What Is Proprietary Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Proprietary software is a type of software that remains the property of its developer, meaning that it is not made freely available to modify and distribute to others.

What Is Virtual Memory?

Difficulty: Medium

Virtual memory is a portion of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) that is reserved to compensate for shortages of RAM. This happens when the amount of RAM needed to...

What Is Open-Source Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Open-source software is a type of software that is made freely available to use, modify, and distribute to the public for personal, educational, or organisation use without restrictions.

What Is An Adaptive User Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

An adaptive user interface, also known as an adapted user interface or an AUI, is a type of user interface that adapts its layout, presentation, elements, and options to suit the needs of users and the technology it is running on.

Top 10 Most Useful Free Software Programs You Should Have Installed

Difficulty: Easy

There are free software programs available for almost any task you can think of. Free software programs are freely usable and can be distributed and shared without...

What Is Compression?

Difficulty: Medium

Compression is the process of reducing the number of bits needed to represent data to reduce the file size, saving storage space and speeding up file transfers.

What Is A Menu-Based Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

A menu-based interface, also known as a menu-driven interface, is a type of user interface based on menus that present users with a list of options.

What Is A Command-Line Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

A command-line interface (CLI), also known as a console-user interface, is a type of user interface based on text commands and a simple text-only interface.

What Is A Graphical User Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

A graphical user interface (GUI) is a type of user interface based on graphical icons, windows, buttons, dialogue boxes, menu bars, tabs, toolbars, and images.

What Is A Backup?

Difficulty: Easy

A backup is a copy of data in case the original data gets lost, deleted, overwritten, or becomes unusable. Whilst backups do not prevent any unexpected events...

Why Won't My Computer Copy and Paste? - 6 Possible Reasons Why Your Computer Won't Copy and Paste

Difficulty: Easy

The copy and paste function is a widely used function that you do not need to manually enable as it is already there. You can use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C to copy and Ctrl + V to paste.