Posts tagged computer terminology
Learn Computer Basics in Plain English
What is a “computer desktop”?
A computer “desktop” is so named because it’s very similar (at least conceptually) to the top of a real desk:
An actual factual desktop
a “Windows 7” desktop
(Source: michaelgorzka)
What is a Bookmark?
When the web was created in the early to mid ‘90s, the way we thought about it is like pages like pages in a book. If you have a book you’re reading and you want to get back to a page in that book, what do you do? You bookmark it. It’s the same basic idea.
A bookmark is a way of getting back to a page on the internet that is located on some site on the internet. You just want to get back to it, so you bookmark it.
You do this typically by going to the Bookmark menu. Sometimes there may be a button on the toolbar toward the top of the window that has a little plus symbol on the button. Whatever way you do it, you hit the button or go to the menu that says “Bookmarks” and hit the option that says “Add bookmark” or “Add favorite,” in the case of Internet Explorer.
Excerpt from transcription of audio lesson - What is A Bookmark - see source for full audio & transcript.
Here is one of my early video lessons (please excuse the video quality) where I use one of my Plain English explanations of computer terms — explaining what a hard drive is and what RAM is, and what they do in your computer. Many people confuse those two terms with each other, and many people don’t understand either at all.
If this is true for you, it’s not your fault — it’s just never been explained to you in a way that you could relate to. Watch this video and both computer terms will finally make sense, even if you feel like the most basic computer user in the world.
(Source: worthgodwin.com)
What is a driver? Watch this video for an easy, Plain English explanation of this computer term that will just make sense.
(Source: youtube.com)
