Glossary

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Alpinaut: online resource that combines Google maps search with a wiki system, allowing users to add reviews topographic anywhere site of the planet.
Adobe Reader X: PDF reader.

Access direct: files or objects pointing to other locations.

B
Badoo: Dating-focused social discovery website, founded in 2006.
Bit Torrent: protocol designed for sharing filesonline.

B&G Calculator: scientific calculator program that includes dozens of options and features various scientific areas

C
Central processing unit: main component of the computer and other programmable devices.

Connections: Communication that sets one person to another for a particular environment.

Computer: general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finiteset of arithmetic or logical operations.

D
Documentation: description of a program so that it can be read by a person.
Dodgeball: location social networking software provider for mobile devices.

DropBox: free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.

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Explorer: program for viewing web pages on the net as well as access to otherresources, and save documents stored information.
Email: method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.
E-LearningSocial: Social network specializing in innovation applied to education and training.

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Facebook: social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.Flickr: website that allows you to store, sort, search and share photos videos online.

Fax: telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.
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Gallery: It is a tool of Office that helps you catalog all media clips storedon the hard drive.
Gadgets: device that has a purpose and a specific function, usually of small proportions, practical yet innovative.
Grafica: computer program that acts user interface using a set of images and graphic objects to represent information and actions available in the interface.

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Hardware: refers to all tangible parts of a computer system, its components are: electric,electronic, electromechanical and mechanical.
HP: Hewlett-Packard is one of the largest companies in the information technology world. Manufactures and markets hardware and software as well as providing support services related to computer science.
HomePage: It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the "front page".

I
Internet Explorer: web browserdeveloped by Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows operating system since 1995.
Informatica: body of scientific knowledge and methods to analyze, improve and implement upgrades to communication, sending and receiving information through computers.
Ilike: online service that allows users to download and share music.

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Java: programming language of high-level object-oriented, developed by JamesGosling in 1995.
Jaiku: social networking service and microblogging that allows users to send text-only messages with a maximum length of 140 characters, IM, Jaiku's website or ad hoc applications.
JClic: platform lessons and exercises and games to school.

K
Kilobyte: storage unit whose symbol is the kB (with the 'k' in lower case) and is equivalent to 103 bytes.
K-Lite: collection of audioand video codecs for Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system and its software to play various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself.
Keyboard: input device or device, partly inspired by the keyboard of the typewriter, which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches that send information to the...