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ARC iT Solutions - Jargon Buster - A

Our A-Z will help you understand the IT terms that are now being used every day in the modern day world

The Jargon Buster explains technical and computing terms with which you might not be familiar.

ActiveX - A Microsoft technology that allows small programs to run inside your browser.

ADSL - Another word for Broadband via a phone line, a high-speed internet connection. It receives digital information around 100 times faster than a normal modem and is "always-on".

Adware - A form of spyware which installs programs which generate advertising on your computer (often in the form of pop-up windows).

Alt Tag - The text which appears when you roll the mouse over a picture. This is the alt tag in HTML and is useful for people who view pages in text-only mode, or who are blind or visually impaired.

Anchor - A technical term used for a link in a web page.

Animated GIF - A GIF is a type of image file and when it is animated it might blink, flash or have moving pictures.

Anti-virus - Anti-virus software helps protect your computer from viruses.

Applet - A small program using the Java language that allows you to do more complicated things on web pages. For example, chat applets let you type in a window for your on-line buddies to read and reply to.

Application - Another word for computer program. For example, Word which is used for creating documents is a word processing application.

Archive - The place on a website where you find old articles, stories etc.

ASCII - A computer code that represents letters as numbers. For example, the letter A is ASCII code 65.

Attachment - A file which is 'attached' and sent with a standard text e-mail message. Often photographs or word documents are attached to e-mails.

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