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What Is Shovelware?

Difficulty: Medium

Shovelware describes unwanted software that is bundled with software valuable to users. It is known more for the quantity of what is included, not the quality or usefulness.

What Is Dribbleware?

Difficulty: Medium

Dribbleware describes software that has not been properly tested before its release and is characterised by frequent updates, patches, and fixes that end users have to deal with.

What Is Cloud Waste?

Difficulty: Medium

Cloud waste refers to unused cloud services, which result in unnecessary spending. This often happens when home users or businesses...

What Is A Push Notification?

Difficulty: Medium

A push notification is a message directly sent to a computing device without a specific request from the client.

What Is End Of Life?

Difficulty: Medium

End of life (EOL) is used in IT to describe products that are no longer maintained or supported by the software developer or hardware manufacturer. It symbolises the last stage of the product lifecycle.

What Is An Internal Hard Drive?

Difficulty: Medium

An internal hard drive is a type of hard drive located inside a computer case. It is a key component of a computer since it stores the operating system.

What Is A Crash?

Difficulty: Easy

A crash occurs when a software application or operating system stops working properly and terminates.

What Is A Bug?

Difficulty: Medium

A bug is an unexpected issue in a software program that causes it to behave in an unintended way or crash.

What Is System Restore?

Difficulty: Medium

System Restore is a built-in utility in Windows that allows users to restore their system to a previous state. This allows unwanted changes that...

What Is Vertical Market Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Vertical market software is a type of software that is developed for a specific industry. It is a niche-market type of software.

What Is Horizontal Market Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Horizontal market software is a type of software that is not developed for specific industries and is generally useful in a wide range of industries.

What Is Dual-Booting?

Difficulty: Medium

Dual-booting, also known as multi-booting, is the act of installing and running multiple operating systems on a single computer.

What Is A Deprecated Feature?

Difficulty: Medium

A deprecated feature is a functionality that still exists in software and may still work but is being phased out and replaced, so usage is not recommended.

What Is An In-App Purchase?

Difficulty: Medium

An in-app purchase (IAP) is a purchase made within an app to buy additional content or features, or sign up for subscriptions.

What Is A Factory Reset?

Difficulty: Medium

A factory reset clears all user data and settings from a device and restores it to its original state, like when it was first taken out of the box.

What Is Drag and Drop?

Difficulty: Medium

Drag and drop is a functionality which allows users to select an object or a section of text (dragging) and then move it (dropping) to a new location.

What Is A Text Editor?

Difficulty: Easy

A text editor is a program that allows users to open, edit, and view plain text files. Text editors are usually included as built-in programs.

What Is Image Scaling?

Difficulty: Medium

Image scaling is the process of resizing a digital image, either by making it smaller (scaling down) or making it larger (scaling up).

What Is A Virtual Machine?

Difficulty: Medium

A virtual machine (VM) is an emulated computer system created using software on a physical computer often used for testing purposes and backing up data.

What Is A Software Wizard?

Difficulty: Medium

A software wizard is a user interface that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of simple questions.

What Is Data Modelling?

Difficulty: Medium

Data modelling is the process of creating a data model that visually represents data elements and how they relate to each other.

What Is Data Analysis?

Difficulty: Medium

Data analysis is the process of working with data to discover useful information, support decision-making, and make conclusions.

What Is A Thumbnail?

Difficulty: Medium

A thumbnail is a small representation of a larger image. They are often used to provide snapshots of several images in a single space so that they are easier and faster to look at.

What Is System Software?

Difficulty: Medium

System software is the most important type of software installed on a computer that directly controls the hardware and provides an environment or platform for all the other types of software to work in.

What Is Application Software?

Difficulty: Medium

Application software is a type of software designed to fulfil a specific need or perform specific tasks other than one relating to the operation or maintenance of a computer.

What Is Big Data?

Difficulty: Medium

Big data is a digital technology which allows businesses to collect and combine data from multiple sources.

What Is A Memory Leak?

Difficulty: Medium

A memory leak is a programming error that happens when a program fails to release memory that is no longer needed, gradually consuming more memory until none is left.

What Is HEIC?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for High Efficiency Image Container. HEIC is a file format used to store photos in a compressed format in order to save space.

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What Is WebP?

Difficulty: Medium

WebP is an open-source raster graphic image format developed by Google intended to reduce the size of images on the web.

What Is Vapourware?

Difficulty: Medium

Vapourware is a type of software or hardware that has been announced to the general public, but is not yet released and is unlikely to be released any time soon, if ever.