Communication with others has changed drastically over recent years. Instead of phone calls, electronic mail (email) has become an important means of communication. Receiving and sending email is a way of life these days, so most people want their email account to be...

A wireless internet connection is very convenient.  Wireless internet is also called Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to exchange data and/or connect to the internet without any wires being connected to the device. Wi-Fi can be used on many...

Cloud computing is becoming standard practice for many people. Cloud computing means connecting a large number of computers through some kind of network connection - for most people this connection is the internet. It relies on the sharing of computing resources...

Cookies are actually HTTP cookies or browser cookies that can save the user quite a bit of time when on the internet. These cookies are small pieces of data that are sent from a website and are stored in the users' web browser while the user is browsing through that...

Web browsers are software applications that allow you to view content that is on the internet; whether it be a web page, a video, an image, a document or any other piece of content. There are many different web browsers to choose from including the top ones: Google...

Acrobat Reader is part of the Adobe Systems family of software. Adobe's software allows the creating, viewing, manipulating, managing and printing of files. These files are saved in the PDF format - Portable Document Format. PDF is is a standard format for documents,...

Security in a world of technology is of utmost importance to almost everyone. Security breaches and privacy infringements can cause a lot of damage to a person - not just the electronic device (such as computer, cell phone etc) but can also subject the person to...

ActiveX Control is created by Microsoft and was introduced in 1996. It is a software component - it is not a software program on it's own. This software framework is used in the Windows operating system. Many Windows programs and applications use ActiveX Control....

File extensions are groups of letters following file names. Between the file name and the file extension is a ".". This file extension indicates what the file format is. For instance, Microsoft Word documents have a ".doc" following the name of the file. Once you...

Communication with others has changed drastically over recent years. Instead of phone calls, electronic mail (email) has become an important means of communication. Receiving and sending email is a way of life these days, so most people want their email account to be...

A wireless internet connection is very convenient.  Wireless internet is also called Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to exchange data and/or connect to the internet without any wires being connected to the device. Wi-Fi can be used on many...

Cloud computing is becoming standard practice for many people. Cloud computing means connecting a large number of computers through some kind of network connection - for most people this connection is the internet. It relies on the sharing of computing resources...

Cookies are actually HTTP cookies or browser cookies that can save the user quite a bit of time when on the internet. These cookies are small pieces of data that are sent from a website and are stored in the users' web browser while the user is browsing through that...

Web browsers are software applications that allow you to view content that is on the internet; whether it be a web page, a video, an image, a document or any other piece of content. There are many different web browsers to choose from including the top ones: Google...

Acrobat Reader is part of the Adobe Systems family of software. Adobe's software allows the creating, viewing, manipulating, managing and printing of files. These files are saved in the PDF format - Portable Document Format. PDF is is a standard format for documents,...

Security in a world of technology is of utmost importance to almost everyone. Security breaches and privacy infringements can cause a lot of damage to a person - not just the electronic device (such as computer, cell phone etc) but can also subject the person to...

ActiveX Control is created by Microsoft and was introduced in 1996. It is a software component - it is not a software program on it's own. This software framework is used in the Windows operating system. Many Windows programs and applications use ActiveX Control....

File extensions are groups of letters following file names. Between the file name and the file extension is a ".". This file extension indicates what the file format is. For instance, Microsoft Word documents have a ".doc" following the name of the file. Once you...