Tech Contents
I wrote this series of articles to provide simple explanations of computer technology and the Internet for the casual home user. They are intended for people who don’t really care to know where it came from or the intricate details of how it works, but just want to know what a particular word, or phrase, or issue that they read online, or heard in the media, actually means. These articles do not provide tutorials or recommendations for using technology, but you might discover something that piques your interest. Browse the topics and you might just come across a whole new aspect of the Internet.
Tech Keywords and Tech Jargon Index
Tech Abbreviations and Tech Acronyms
Tech Table of Contents
- Adware or Spyware?
- Audio and Video Compression
- How do I Backup?
- Bandwidth and Broadband
- Baseball is Digital, Football is Analog
- What is Bit-Torrent?
- What is a Blog?
- The Nature of Blogs
- What is Blu-ray?
- What is a Browser?
- Do I need Cookies?
- What is the CPU?
- What is Cloud Computing?
- What is Data Compression?
- What is a Database?
- Deceptive Ad Boxes
- Digital Bits and Bytes
- What is Digital Media?
- How do you convert to Digital Media?
- What makes a Digital Photograph?
- What is Digital Television?
- What is the Digital TV Transition?
- What is a Domain?
- How do you Name a Domain?
- DRM is not a Dream
- What is External Storage?
- What are File Types and Formats?
- How do Forums work?
- How does GPS work?
- What is the Hard Drive?
- Let’s Talk about Hardware
- What is High-Definition TV?
- What is the Internet
- What is Internet Radio?
- Your Internet Service Provider
- What is the Motherboard?
- MySpace vs Facebook
- What is Net Neutrality?
- What does Open Source mean?
- What is the Operating System?
- Varieties of Operating Systems
- What makes a Password secure?
- What makes a Better Password?
- How to create a Better Password
- Phish in a Barrel
- How do Phishing Schemes Work?
- What is a Podcast?
- What are all these Ports?
- What is RAM?
- What is Ripping and Burning?
- Does Everyone Need a Router?
- How does RSS Work?
- Safe Computing Practices
- How does Satellite Radio work?
- It’s Just Semantics
- What is Software?
- Spam, Spam, Spam
- What is a Spreadsheet?
- What is a Subdomain?
- What is a Thumb Drive?
- Free TV on your Computer
- Twitter your Life Away
- What is Upload and Download?
- What is User-Generated Content?
- Internet Video on your TV
- What is a Virus, Worm, and Trojan Horse?
- Virus on Your Computer, A
- Viruses on the Internet
- Big Virus Coming!
- What are all theses Wares?
- Webpages and Websites
- What is Wi-Fi and WiMAX?
- What is the Wikipedia?
- What is a Word Processor?
- The World Wide Web