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What is an App Store?
The most secure and convenient place to buy new applications.
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What are the minimum system requirements?
Check these specifications before installing a new piece of software on your computer.
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What are drivers?
These tiny pieces of software are designed to allow third party hardware to talk to the Operating System.
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What is .aac or .m4a?
This file format was designed to replace .mp3
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What is the printer manufacturer's website?
When your printer requires a driver you should check here.
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What is freeware?
This is the category of apps that you do not have to pay to use.
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What is an End User License Agreement?
You agree to this contract when installing new software, abbreviated as EULA.
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What is Productivity Software?
This category of sofware allows you to do work such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presenatations.
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What is .app?
This is the file extension for applications on a Mac.
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What is Control Panel?
Where you go in the Windows OS to remove applications.
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What is the operating system?
This is the software that applications talk directly to inside the computer.
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What is a site license?
This license permits an organization to install the application on an agreed upon number of PCs on their campus.
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What is at least once a week?
How often you should update antivirus definitions.
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What is .iso?
This is the file extension for CDs, DVDs, and BlueRay files.
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What is drag the application to the trash?
The method for uninstalling applications on MacOS
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What is the file extension?
This is the part of a file name that tells the OS which application to open the file with
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What is the product key?
This piece of information is required to activate commercial software.
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What is the firewall?
When an application needs constant internet access to work, this security feature may interfere with the software.
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What is .tiff?
This image file extension produces the highest quality image files.
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What is in the box or in your email?
One of the two locations you should look for the product key on a new piece of software.
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What is eight?
The number of characters the filename was limited to under the old FAT file system.
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What is open source software?
This type of software is created in shared communities, and any software developer can change or add to the code.
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What are Operating System and hardware requirements (processor, RAM, storage space)?
These two factors matter most when thinking about software compatibility.
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What is .dmg?
On MacOS, this is the file extension for Disk Image files.
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What is delete it without opening it?
What you should do if you receive an email with an unknown application in it.
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