Angielski IT

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADSL

Artificial Intelligence

AI

AOL Instant Messenger

AIM

Arithmetic and logic unit

ALU

Advanced Micro Devices

AMD

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCII

American Telephone & Telegraph company

AT&T

Analogue Telephone Adaptor

ATA

Automated Teller Machine

ATM

Audio Video Interface

AVI

Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASIC

Bulletin Board System

BBS

Blind carbon copy

Bcc:

Basic Input/Output System

BIOS

binary digit

bit

bita per second

bps

Computer-Aied Design

CAD

Carbon copy

Cc:

Charge-Coupled Devices

CCD

Compact Disc

CD

Candela per square metre

cd/m2

Compact Disc-Recordable

CD-R

Compact Disc-Read Only Memory

CD-ROM

Compact Disc-Reweitable

CD-RW

Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

CERN

COmmon Bussines-Oriented Language

COMBOL

Central Processing Unit

CPU

Cathode Ray Tube

CRT

Cascading Style Sheets

CSS

Computer To Plate

CTP

Control Unit

CU

Digital Audio Broadcasting

DAB

Digital Audio Workstation

DAW

Database Management System

DBMS

Dual Inline Memory Module

DIMM

Double Data Rare

DDR

Digital-Light processing

DLP

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

DMB

Domain Name System

DNS

dots per inch

dpi

Desktop publishing

DTP

Digital Terrestrial television

DTTV

Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld

DVB-H

Digital Versatile Disc-Rewritable

DVD-/+RW

Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc-Recordable

DVD-R

Digital Versatile Disc-Read Only Memory

DVD-ROM

Digital Video Interface

DVI

Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM

EEPROM

Encaspulated PostScript

EPS

Frequently,

FAQ

FORmula TRANslation

FORTRAN

File Transfer Protocol

FTP

Gigabyte

GB

Gigahertz

GHz

Graphic Interchange Format

GIF

Geographic Information System

GIS

Gnu's Not Unix

GNU

Global Positioning System

GPS

Global System for Mobile communications

GSM

Graphical User Interface

GUI

Hard disc drive

HDD

High definition TV

HDTV

Hewlett Packard

HP

Hypertext Markup Language

HTML

hypertext transfer protocol

HTTP

Hertz

Hz

Input/Output

I/O

International Bussines Machines

IBM

I Seek You

ICQ

Information and Communication Technology

ICT

Instant Messaging

IM

Internet Protocol

IP

Instruction Register

IR

Infrared Data Association

IrDA

Internet Service Provider

ISP

Information technology

IT

Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPG

1 kilo

k

kilobyte

KB

Local Area Network

LAN

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Laser

Liquid-Crystal Display

LCD

LISt Processing

LISP

QuickTime movie

. mov

Macintosh Computer

Mac

Metropolitan Area Network

MAN

Megabyte

MB

Megahertz

MHz

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDI

Million Instructions Per Second

MIPS

Multimedia messages

MMS

MOdulator/DEModulator

Modem

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio

MP3

Moving Picture Experts Group

MPEG

milosecond

ms

Network interface card

NIC

Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding standard

OLE

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

OOP

Operating System

OS

portable document format

. pdf

Personal Area Network

PAN

1 Personal Computer; 2 Program Counter

PC

Printer Control Language

PCL

Personal Digital Assistants

PDA

Page Description Language

PDL

Pretty Good Privacy

PGP

Personal Identification Number

PIN

picture element

pixel

portable network graphics

png

pages per minute

ppm

Point to Point Protocol

PPP

RealAudio file

. ra

Random Access Memory

RAM

Red, Green, Blue

RGB

Radio-Frequency Memory

RFID

Research In Motion

RIM

Raster Image Processor

RIP

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RISC

Read Only Memory

ROM

recolutions per minute

rpm

repetitive strain injury

RSI

Really Simple Syndication

RSS

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SDRAM

Subscriber Identity Module

SIM

Short Message Service

SMS

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMTP

Structured Query Language

SQL

Secure Socket Layer

SSL

Super XGA

SXGA

Transaction Authorization Number

TAN

Terabyte

TB

Transmission Control Protocol/IP

TCP/IP

Thin Film Transistor

TFT

Tagged Image File Format

TIFF

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UMTS

Uniform Resource Locator

URL

Universal Serial Bus

USB

Value Added Tax

VAT

Videocassette Recorder

VCR

Visual Display Unit

VDU

Video Graphic Adapter/Array

VGA

Voice over Internet Protocol

VoIP

Virtual Reality Modelling Language

VRML

See in Glossary

W3 WEB

Web Accesibility Initaitive

WAI

Wide Area Network

WAN

1 wireless access point; 2 Wirelless Application Protocol

WAP

Wireless Fidelity

Wi-Fi

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WIMAX

Window, Icon, Menu and Pointer

WIMP

Word Processing

WP

World Wide Web

WWW

What You See Is What You Get

WYSIWYG

Extended Graphics Array

XGA

Extensible Markup Language

XML

Wide XGA

WXGA

Adobe’s freebsoftware for displaying and printing PDF files.

Adobe Reader

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.

ADSL

A device used to connect one or more computers to an ADSL phone line.

ADSL modem

Software devised to display advertisments; some may include spyware.

adware

Keys that represent letters and numbers, arranged as on typewriter.

alphanumeric keys

A popular online shopping site.

Amazon.com

A robot that resembles a human.

android

Images made up of a series of independent pictures pit together in sequence to look like moving pictures.

animations

A small Java application, usually designed to run automatically within a web page.

applet

programa that let you do specific tasks, such as word processing, database managment or financial planning.

application software

A game played in a coin-operated machine, typically installed in pubs, restaurants and amusement arcades.

arcade-game

A component of the CPU which performs the actual arithmetic and logical operations asked for by a program.

arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

Advanced Research Project Agency Network.

ARPANet

The study of methods by which a computer can simulate aspects of human intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

A standard system for the binary representation of characters. ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, permit computers from different manufacturers to exchange data.

ASCII code

The width of the screen divided by its height, e.g. 4:3 and 16:9.

aspect ratio

A special program that converts a program written in a low-level language into machine code.

assembler

A low-level language thats uses abbreviations, such ass ADD, SUB and MPY, to represent Instructions.

assembley language

An analogue telephone adaptor, which converts the analogue signals of your traditional phone into digital signals.

ATA adaptor

A processor manufactured by AMD.

Athlon

A file that has been included as part of an email message.

attachment

Characteristics that affect the visual representation of lines and polygons, e.g. line styles, rectangle colour.

attributes

Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network; ways of authentication include passwords, digital certificates and biometrics.

authentication

An object which represents a participant in 3D chat room.

avatar

To copy files from one disc to another.

back up

High-speed lines or connections that from the major access pathways within the Internet.

backbone

A copy of data or software, usually kept in case the original disk is damaged.

backup

The quantity of data that can be transmitted trough a network, measurrd in bits per second.

bandwidth

A specialized scanner used to read price labels in shops.

bar code reader

A high-level proframming language developed in the 60s, widely used in programming because it was interactive and easy to use.

BASIC

A code made of just two numbers (0 or 1).

binary code

The smallest unit od information in the binary system, 0 or 1. Also called a bit.

binary digit

A notation system in which numbers are represented by the two digits: 0 and 1. Thus the binary number 10 represents 2 in the decimal system, while 100 represents 4.

binary system

The science that uses computer technology to identify people based on physical features, such as fingerprints or voice scans.

biometrics