Secure Sockets Layer

Secure Socket Layer is a standard security technology for an encrypted link between the server and the browser. It ensures privacy and protection on online transaction to the customers in the industry.

Feed

Feed is a document on a web page which provide users on subscription to frequently updated contents. It is created for syndication and it is usually ends in .xml or .rss.

Directories

Directories are listing of files in your computer stored in separate folders which is usually in a hard drive.

Copyright

Copyright is a form of protection provided by a law to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Only authorized users can view, download, or print any information from the database when the material has a copyright.

Boolean Logic

Boolean Logic is a complete system for logical operations named after
George Boole who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 19th century. It is the basis of all digital electronics. The Boolean Logic contains elements (or "bits") where only two possible values called various names such as "true" and "false", "yes" and "no", "on" and "off", or "1" and "0".

Blog

A blog is publicly accessible personal journal that allows an individual to voice his or her opinions and insights, keep an online record of experiences, and gather information from others. People also use blogs to share photos with friends and family.

Wiki

Wiki is a websites that allows users to create and edit contents. Wikipedia is an example of a wiki.

webapp

a webapp is an application that can be accessed over the Internet or intranet.

Website

A website is a a site or location on the World Wide Web. Each site contains a home page where the user will see when they first open the site and it might give an additional files or documents. It is owned and managed by an individual, company, or organization.

Web Cache

A Web Cache sits between Web servers and a client or clients. It watches requests for HTML pages, files and images that come by and saves it. It uses the same copy when there is another request instead of asking the Web server again.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of the Web in which users can create their own website, self- publish, upload audio and video files, and share photos and information.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is an address of an internet site or it resembles the person's street address.

Social Networking Site

Social Networking Site is an online service that allows users to share ideas, interests, activities, and events within their individual networks with the use of e-mail and instant messaging.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a group of news feeds with an orange icon that has the letters RSS or XML that looks like a radio broadcast waves. It is used to published updated works such as blog entries,news headlines, audio, and video. When you subscribe RSS it delivers late-breaking news directly to your newsreader.

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Portal

Portal is site for users to get connected to the World Wide Web like Yahoo,AOL,Netscape,or Microsoft Network. It is also a technique that increases the effect of realism and speed uppresentation.

Podcast

Podcast is an audio and video files that you can download and playback from the internet with the use of computer or mobile device.

Mosaic

Mosaic is a picture that has been equally divided into rectangular sections, each sections is replaced with another photograph that matches the target photo.

Home Page

Home Page is the main page of a website. It also acts as a table of contents to other documents stored at the site.

Hit

Hit is an act of retrieving file from web server.

Geographic Imaging

Geographic Imaging is the use of images such as satellite photographs to provide geographic information.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

File Transfer Protocol is a method of moving files between two internet sites. It is a way of login
to a site for retrieving and or sending files.

Domain

Domain is a group of computers on a network that are treated as one with common rules and procedures.

Digital Certificate

Digital Certificate is a document that requires digital signature to bind a public key with the person's name, address, and organization. It also used to verify that a public key belongs to an individual.

Cookie

Cookie is text file on the hard drive by some web pages you visited. It allows webmaster to track and retrieve your visit to thier website. It allows to store items and remember information such as passwords.

Client

Client is a program used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer. It is designed to work with one or more kinds of server programs.

ActiveX

ActiveX is a browser by Microsoft to run programs over the internet. It scans viruses using the browser instead of an installed program. It also download to perform animation from the internet.

Worm

A worm is a software program that spreads from one computer to another.

Virus

A virus is a software program that reproduces itself and is always able to cause problems to files
or other programs on the same computer.

Urban Legend

An urban legend is an image found on the computer. It may look real or true but its not.

Trojan Horse

A trojan horse is a program that looks like something cool like a game or an advertisement but is
actually a computer virus or worm.

Time Bomb

A time bomb is a computer program that has been written after a time limit.

Teleconferencing

Teleconferencing is people communicating with each other in different places bu using the same
remote system.

Spam

Spam is defined as an unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail. In addition, spam is an e-mail that one did not ask for and do not want.

RDF Summary

RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. Its a method for conceptual description or modeling of information.

Pyramid Schemes

A pyramid scheme is a Ponzi scheme on the Internet. People are asked to pay the person who got them involved in the scheme. They get paid by the people they recruit. Eventually, people
grow suspicious and stop paying. That's when the whole scheme collapses.

Netiquette

Netiquette is Internet etiquette. Its the rules or guidelines for good manners and common courtesy when communicating with others on the Internet.

Phishing

Phishing is a criminally fraudulent process at attempting to acquire sensitive information such as
usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Logic Bomb

A logic bomb is a piece of code left within a computing system with the intent of it executing
when some condition occurs.

Hoax

A hoax is a deceptive act to overload computer systems by sending an e-mail warning people of
a computer virus that doesn't exist. It tells them to forward the e-mail to friends and it multiplies to a point where it overloads the systems.

Fraud

Fraud is an act of theft through dishonesty. This can happen in computers too, especially on the
Internet if someone tries to steal someone's identity.

Filtering

Filtering is moving junk mail into a separate folder and it can be tossed anytime.

Windows Mail

Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client that replaced Outlook Express and has been
replaced by Windows Live Mail.

User Agent

A user agent is a program or device that accesses websites' contents.

Text Messaging

Text messaging is exchanging, receiving, and sending messages on cell phones.

Spam

A spam is unsolicited or unwanted junk email that is usually sent out in bulk to a large number of people.

Signature

A signature is a name typed that identifies the person's approval of contents of a message.
Soemtimes it requires a PIN number or secret code.

Packets

A packet is a unit of data that has been taken to a size small enough so that the Internet can handle and transmit it.

Mailing List

A mailing list (also called listserv) is a list of names and addresses.

Instant Messaging

Instant messaging is sending and receiving messages in real time. This means the message is
received the moment it is sent and when it is sent it lets you know.

e-mail Address

An e-mail address identifies a username (e-mail account) found at (@) a virtual location where
an e-mail can be sent.