Hands across the Oceans

Introduction

The table of contents is based on the topics in the textbook “Infotech – English for Computer Users” by S. Esteras.

1  Computers Today

http://www.pcworld.com/

Computer applications

http://www.windowsxpmagazine.co.uk/

What can computers do?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/ComputersCantThink.txt

http://slashdot.org/

2  Configuration

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/configuration.html

Hardware

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/

Software

http://www.tucows.com/

Storage devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=storage+devices&fulltext=Search

Input devices

http://www.pctechguide.com/51InputDevices.htm

Output devices

http://www.school-resources.co.uk/input_output_devices.htm

Minis and micros

http://www.thocp.net/hardware/microcomputers.htm

3  Inside the System

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc1.htm

CPU

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CPU.html

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ALU.html

Register

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/r/register.html

Main memory

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/main_memory.html

Internal memory

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

3  Expansion Slot

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/e/expansion_slot.html

Clock

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/kellyxp04.mspx

RAM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

ROM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

4  Bits and Bytes

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes.htm

Characters

http://webclipart.about.com/library/weekly/blindx1.htm

ASCII code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

Kilobyte

Megabyte

Gigabyte

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212444,00.html

Pixel

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/pixel_icons.htm

5  Buying a Computer

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/buy/

http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/guides/bestdeal.htm

Macintosh

http://www.apple.com/

Workstation

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/

Remote access

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx

Notebook

http://www.notebookreview.com/

Technical features

http://www.eetasia.com/CAT_590626.HTM

Specifications

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

6  Arrow Keys

Keyboard

http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/keyboard/page1.html

7  Capture Your Favourite Image

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/shareit/book.mspx

Scanning

http://www.scantips.com/

Digital photos

http://photography.about.com/od/takingphotos/

Photostory

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides/Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx

Blog

www.blogger.com

8  Viewing the Output

Monitor

http://www.howstuffworks.com/monitor.htm

Liquid crystal display (LCD)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/lcd.htm

Cathode-ray tube

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/search.php

Bitmap

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci211672,00.html

Video graphics display (VCD)

http://www.videohelp.com/

9  Choosing a Printer

http://www.which.co.uk/

Types of printers

http://209.196.177.41/10/10-02.htm

Photosetters

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=photosetters

Plotters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

10  Devices for the Disabled

http://www.szs.uni-karlsruhe.de/5linkliste/5hilfsmittel/hilfsmittel.eng.php

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Disabilities/murhpy.AT.html

Steven Hawking

http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html

Braille

http://www.braille.org/

10  Speech Synthesizer

http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/

Morse code

http://www.babbage.demon.co.uk/morseabc.html

Inspiration

http://www.inspirationpeak.com/

Enigma

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml

11  Storage Devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=storage+devices&fulltext=Search

12  Hard Drives

http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm

Internal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk

External

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,117817,00.asp

Computer aided design (CAD)

http://www.compinfo-center.com/cad/cad.htm

13  Optical Breakthrough

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/47010.html

Optical disk

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/optical_disk.html

Optical drive

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/179

http://compreviews.about.com/od/cddvd/a/DeskCDDVDSpecs.htm

Magneto-optical drive (MO)

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212513,00.html

DVD rom

http://www.howstuffworks.com/dvd.htm

CD-R/CD-W

http://kadaitcha.cx/cdr_cdrw.html

14  Operating systems

http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm

Applications software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software

14  Operating System

http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm

Software

http://www.download.com/

http://www.tucows.com/

C programming

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm

Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.mspx

Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/Windowsvista/

15  Graphical User Interface

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/Graphical_User_Interface_GUI.html

16  A Walk through Word Processing

Word processing facilities

http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/whatiswordproc.html

17  Spreadsheets

http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Spreadsite/

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/may99/spreadsheet.html

Excel

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

Graphic representation

http://www.univ-bechar.dz/Boutiche/Education/visualization.htm

18  Databases

http://databases.about.com/

19  Faces of the Internet

e-mail

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/email.htm

Web browsing

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser

Internet relay chat (IRC)

http://www.mirc.com/irc.html

File transfer protocol (FTP)

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213976,00.html

19  Telnet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

Newsgroups

http://groups.google.com/

Webpage

http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html

http://www.webpage-maker.com/

URL

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Navigation buttons

http://www.xp-web-buttons.com/webbuttons/cool_navigation_buttons.html

Links

http://www.answers.com/

Security

www.infopackets.com

20  Creative Software

Graphics and design

http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/

Games

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/games-channel.htm

Multimedia

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia//

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/

Translation

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Animation

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/tv-animation.htm

21  Desktop Publishing

http://desktoppub.about.com/

e-magazines

http://www.emagazine.org.uk/

Newspapers

http://www.theonion.com/content/index

22  Multimedia

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia//

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/

Encarta

http://encarta.msn.com/

22  Encyclopaedia Britannica

http://www.eb.com/

Compton’s encyclopaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton’s_Encyclopedia

22  File Formats

http://www.wotsit.org/

Text

Txt

Pdf

Doc

Htm

Html

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/text_file.html

Graphics

Gif

Jpg

Jpeg

http://www.graphics.com/

Sounds

Wav

Ra

Ram

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

Video and animation

Avi

Mov

Mpg

Mpeg

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Video_and_Animation_Tools/

http://www.video-animation.com/

Compressed files

Zip

Sit

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q129605/

23  Programming

Assembly languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_Language

Machine code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code

Assembly languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

Source programmes

http://www.itu.int/wsis/stocktaking/scripts/documents.asp?project=1099574012&lang=en

Compiler language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

Object programme

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts/index.html

High-level language

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/high_level_language.html

24  Languages

Basic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_programming_language

Visual basic

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/

25  PostScript Revolution

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-11,GGLG:en&q=postscript+revolution

26  Jobs in Computing

http://www.utexas.edu/student/careercenter/careers/index.html

27  Computers Tomorrow

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/report-21853.html

Tele-communications

http://www.telecoms-mag.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication

Modem

http://www.howstuffworks.com/modem.htm

Local bulletin boards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Blogging

www.blogger.com

Online service providers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_service_provider

Internet service providers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider

Commercial online services

America online

CompuServe

Prodigy

Microsoft

http://www.synapse.net/radio/commersh.htm

28  Internet Issues

Privacy

http://www.privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privacy/

Security

www.infopackets.com

Firewalls

http://www.howstuffworks.com/firewall.htm

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/f/firewall.html

www.zonealarm.com

Network security

http://www.insecure.org/tools.html

Virus protection

http://www.mcafee.com/us/

www.zonealarm.com

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

29  LANs and WANs

http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/13.htm

LAN

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/local_area_network_LAN.html

WAN

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/wide_area_network_WAN.html

Protocol

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/protocol.html

Ethernet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ethernet.htm

Gateway

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-buying.htm

TCP/IP

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TCP_IP.html

http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM

Fibre optic cables

http://www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm

Satellite

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/satellite/

http://www.gma.org/surfing/satellites/

Wap

http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm

30  New Technologies

Voice mail

http://www.skype.com/products/skypevoicemail/

Internet tv

http://wwitv.com/

Video tele-conferencing

http://www.cit.cornell.edu/atc/materials/vtc/

RSS feed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)

Voice mail

http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htmhttp://www.skype.com/products/skypevoicemail/

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