Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Vocabulary ;

Vocabulary Terms to know: Creative Commons, intellectual property, copyright, public domain, freeware, shareware, open source, attribution, commercial use, derivative, share-alike, firewall, virus, hacking, piracy, malware, phishing, identity theft, data back-ups, cloud, cookies (as pertaining to computers and Internet search), and filesharing.

What I know:
1. attribution
2. copyright
3. intellectual property
4. hacking
5. virus
6. cookies
7. identity theft
8. firewall
9. public domain
10. creative commons
11. cloud
12. share-alike
13. firewall

* Freeware- software that is free of charge.
* shareware- Software that is available free of charge and often distributed informally for evaluation, after which a fee may be requested for continued use.
* open source- Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed with or without modification
* commercial use- A commercial use is any retail, service or office use listed in Use Groups 5 through 16, or allowed by special permit.
* derivative- something that is based as another source.
* piracy- The unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work
* malware- Software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems.
* phishing-The activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company.
* data-backups- The back up of system, application, program and/or production files to media that can be stored both on and/or offsite.
* filesharing- the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multi-media (audio, video), documents, or electronic books.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Toondoo

I.d theft

Podcasts

Podcast - A series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.
They are delivered via RSS, many people use them for the distribution of music files.
You can search for podcasts in a variety of podcasting directories.