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Vangie Beal

Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

Vangie Beal

Computer Virus

What is a Computer Virus? A computer virus is a program or piece of code that is loaded onto your...

Voice Recognition

The field of computer science that deals with designing computer systems that can recognize spoken words. Note that voice recognition...

Warm Boot

Refers to restarting a computer that is already turned on via the operating system. Restarting it returns the computer to...

Web Page

A document on the World Wide Web. Every Web page is identified by a unique URL(Uniform Resource Locator).

Website

A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each website contains a home page, which is the first document users...

Wide-Area Network (WAN)

A wide area network (WAN) is a group of two or more interconnected local-area networks (LANs) that is not tied...

Window

(1) An enclosed, rectangular area on a display screen. Most modern operating systems and applications have graphical user interfaces (GUIs)...

Word Wrap

In word processing, a feature that causes the word processor to force all text to fit within the defined margins....

Workstation

A workstation is a high-power computer used for engineering applications (CAD/CAM), desktop publishing, software development, and other types of applications...

Web – World Wide Web

The Web, or World Wide Web (W3), is basically a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The...

WYSIWYG

Pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. Short for what you see is what you get. What is WYSIWYG? A WYSIWYG application is one that...