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| Application | Term used to refer to the specific use of a computer and the job it can perform
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| back up | a second copy of computer data made to avoid date loss in the even of a computer outage
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| Byte | A unit that measure data. one byte is the equivalent of one letter, number, or punctuation mark (MG) is one million bytes; a gigabyte (GB) is one billion bytes
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| Case Management/ Electronic Case Filings | the electronic filing system used in the federal court system
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| CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
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| Central Processing Unit | the part of a computer system were all computations, sort sorting selecting, and data manipulation take place; oversees the use of the main memory and monitors in put and output operations
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| Data base | A compilations of data fields and records that is collected, stored, and organized for later retrieval through sorting, searches, queries, etc.
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| Database Management system | Software that is used to collect, store, and organize data into a data base
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| Document Management system | A computerized Mechanism for naming, storing, and labeling documents for ease and accuracy of later retrieval
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| Electronic Filing | filing electronically
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| The system of delivering and receiving messages using a modem, router, telephone line or cable, and communications software
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| Graphical user interface | a system using icons and pictures to display menus and choices on a computer
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| Hardware | The physical elements of a computer, such as a keyboard, monitor, printer, case or chassis, modem, scanner, and joy stick
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| Inout device | Keyboard, mouse, optical character reader, imaging scanner, and voice recognition system.
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| Links | Web addresses that contain an activated linkage to another location or website on the internet
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| Local Area Network | The linking of computers within close proximity, i.e, in the same building
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| Metadata | data store in a computer that shows who created, accessed, or revised a document, what changes were made and by whom, and the dates and times all this occurred
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| Microcomputers | Small-sized computers often called personal or desktop computers
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| Minicomputers | Mid-Sized, powerful computer often used as network servers
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| Open codes | Codes that are invoked once to fret a change in line spacing, margins, tab setting, font changes, justification, and page numbering
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| Operating system | Software that control the flow of information to and from the central processing unit and to and from the input/output devices
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| Output devices | Computer Peripherals such as Monitors an printers
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| Peripherals | Devices that are connected to a computer, such as terminals, tape drives, disk drives, modems and printers
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| Portable Computers | Notebooks, laptops, handheld, tablets, and even smart phone qualify as portable comports
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| Software | All programs needed to instruct, control, and operate he hardware of the computer systems such as flow charts, mauls, routines, training, and the like.
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| Trackpad | A device found on many laptops that allows fingertips control of the cursor movement
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| Trackball | A dvice with a ball on top that is rolled with the finger tips to move the cursor, while the base of the device remains stationary
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| universal resource locator | The adress at which a website can be located
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| USB Drive | Sometimes called memory sticks, flash drives, or thumb drives, these devices are plug into USB drives on a computer and contain the memory that functions like a hard drive.
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| Virus | Computer code that can be copied into an existing computer program and make it self known by impeding correct function of the prgram
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| Web Browser | a program that allows a computer user to expler the internet
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| Webcam | A small expensive device that functions like a camera with it images being sent over the internet
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| Web page or Website | An indidual site fond on the internet
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| wide area network | The linking of computers that are located far apart, i.e., in different cities, through cables, fiber optics, or satellites
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| Zip drive | A portable coputer device, now nearly obosolete do to the common usage of recorable CDs and DVDs
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