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What Is An Advertising ID?

Difficulty: Medium

An advertising ID is a unique user ID assigned to a device that enables third-party tracking across multiple apps. This advertising ID is stored on the operating system and used to create profiles to provide personalised ads in apps.

What Is A Screen Reader?

Difficulty: Medium

A screen reader is an accessibility software application that converts on-screen text to speech. This helps people with visual impairments to understand digital content and navigate the web.

What Is A Hard Copy?

Difficulty: Easy

A hard copy is a physical copy of a document printed on paper. Unlike a soft copy, a hard copy is no longer editable and can be considered a permanent version.

What Is A Taskbar?

Difficulty: Medium

A taskbar is a bar located at the bottom of a display of a graphical user interface (GUI) that shows which windows are currently open and allows quick access to favourite applications.

What Is A Soft Copy?

Difficulty: Easy

A soft copy is an electronic copy of a document that can be viewed on a phone, tablet, or computer. Unlike a hard copy, a soft copy does not...

What Is A Screenshot?

Difficulty: Easy

A screenshot is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer screen at a given point in time. It is created by the operating system and may include the whole screen or a section of it.

What Is Web Application Development?

Difficulty: Medium

Web application development is the process of building, designing, and testing web applications that will be stored on web servers and provided to other users over the internet.

What Is A Web Application?

Difficulty: Medium

For new users, using a computer can sound hard at first, especially without much experience of using a computer. Below are 15 general computer tips for new users.

What Is Rich Text Format?

Difficulty: Medium

Rich text format (RTF) is a file format that combines the features of files found in a full word processor with plaintext files.

What Is A Root Directory?

Difficulty: Medium

IT (information technology) and ICT information and communication technology) look similar, but they are two different fields.

What Is A RAW File?

Difficulty: Medium

A RAW file is an uncompressed and unprocessed photo captured by a digital camera. Due to lossless quality, RAW files are usually large in size.

What Is TIFF?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Tagged Image File Format. TIFF is an image file format used to store raster graphics. They allow users to tag up extra information and data, and support layers, transparency, and multi-image files.

What Is Data Logging?

Difficulty: Medium

Data logging is the process of capturing and storing data over time to analyse activity, trends, and predict future events.

What Is Data Mining?

Difficulty: Medium

Data mining is the process of searching and analysing large amounts of data to discover patterns, trends, and other valuable information.

What Is Alpha Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Alpha software is a pre-release version of software in the early testing phase. It has enough basic functions to be used, but lacks most of the features that will be included in the final version.

What Is Customer Relationship Management?

Difficulty: Medium

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to strategies and technologies that businesses use to analyse and manage relationships with customers and customer interactions.

What Is A Browser Extension?

Difficulty: Medium

A browser extension is a small add-on that adds extra functionality or capabilities to a web browser. Extensions are usually used to add new...

What Is A User Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

A user interface, often abbreviated to a UI, is the space that allows users to interact with a software application, website, or hardware device.

What Is Multimedia?

Difficulty: Easy

Multimedia refers to the combination of different content forms, such as text, audio, images, animations, and video into a single presentation.

What Is Metadata?

Difficulty: Medium

Metadata is data that gives information about other data to help understand the structure, nature, and context.

What Is BSOD?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Blue Screen of Death. A BSOD is a full-screen, blue error message displayed by Windows when it has run into a critical error that causes the computer to stop responding.

What Is BIOS?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Basic Input/Output system. BIOS, pronounced "bye-oss" is a firmware program stored on a ROM chip on the motherboard that provides a user interface for accessing and setting up the computer at the most basic level.

What Is A Vector Graphic?

Difficulty: Medium

A vector graphic is a digital image that consists of points, paths, curves, geometric shapes, and mathematical relationships that connect them to create an image.

What Are Raster Graphics?

Difficulty: Medium

Raster graphics, also known as bitmaps, are computer graphics made up of tiny rectangular pixels arranged in a grid formation that can represent an image.

What Is Firmware?

Difficulty: Medium

Firmware is a type of software embedded in the ROM that contains the programming needed to boot a device and the instructions it needs to operate and communicate with other hardware.

What Is Beta Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Beta software is a pre-release of software that is in the process of being tested. It is not officially released and may contain bugs or performance issues.

What Is Database Software?

Difficulty: Easy

Database software is a type of productivity software used to create, edit, and manage databases. Databases can be about absolutely anything, including inventory, customer details, sales transactions, etc.

What Is A WIMP Interface?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers. WIMP describes a GUI that uses a pointer, such as a mouse cursor, to navigate and interact with the computer using windows, icons, and menus.