Hello everyone, welcome to the lesson, my name is Michelle and in this lesson, you’re
learning vocabulary related to computers and technology. Let’s start with some interesting
words that we have on the board. The first word, adware as the word suggests from the
beginning part, ad, ad refers to advertisements. So when you download a particular application,
you may have noticed a lot of ads popping up on your screen, that's because that particular
application has already stored adware in it which leads to the popping up of these advertisements
which sometimes also get a virus into your device. So be very careful about the applications
that you use. They might contain adware and cause you to have a virus on your device.
So adware is the pre-stored advertisements.
Let’s look at the next word, application or apps which you've already heard. So these
are software which is designed for a singular use or individual use by a person. It is a
common platform but you can download it exclusively on your phone or on your computer. For example,
a Facebook app or a Gmail app on your phone. For individual use.
Let’s look at the next word, bloatware or fatware. Can you guess something from the
words? So something, who is fat? Somebody who consists a lot of space. The same way,
bloatware or fatware consists a lot of space on your device. They are pre-stored software
on your device. So when you buy a computer probably or even a phone, an Android phone.
When you buy it, there are some pre-stored applications like Gmail or play store. These
are what you call, bloatware, with a lot of bloatware in your device, you don't have enough
space to store personal data and that's when you're in need of a memory card to save some
personal data. So pre-stored apps. I wouldn't be very biased towards Apple users. So when
you buy an Apple phone, you have pre-stored applications like iTunes.
Let’s look at the next word, bug. Have you heard of this word before? Something like
stop bugging me. Stop irritating me. The same way, the word, bug means something that irritates
you. So when you download particular software, sorry a particular application or software,
it has stored bugs in itself. So bugs are basically some faults in the written script
of the application. For example, JavaScript or PHP. So the program writer has made some
mistakes while writing the script and that ends up having, because of that you end up
having bugs while you're using the software and suddenly your phone hangs or the particular
application just crashes and you're not able to use it. So they are quite irritating like
the little bugs that we face every day. Stored mistakes in the written language or the written
program code.
Let’s look at the next word, cache. So cache are small pieces of information, not the cash
that we usually know in terms of money. Cache is pre-stored information. Information pieces
on your device whenever you visit a particular website, there is data that your device or
maybe your computer stores locally. When you visit the website for the second time, the
pictures and the information load much quicker and let's talk about Facebook. So when you're
logging into Facebook, it asks you do you want to browser to remember the files and
where does the browser remember those files. It remembers those files as a cache memory
which is a temporary memory on your device.
Similarly, we have cookies which are also temporary files on your device. So whenever
you log into Facebook you see a list of login IDs that have previously logged into the website
and those are cookies. Stored information on a particular website.
Zoom....crash, this is how the plane crashes and this is exactly how an application can
also crash or your device can also crash when it has some corrupted files. So whenever your
device crashes suddenly or unexpectedly it stops working, that is when your device has
crashed and you need to get it corrected. Probably by an IT technician. An unexpected
halt in your device.
Alright, let's look at the next word, a firewall. It’s like a wall of fire, not literally
but then a defensive wall that protects your device from a virus or other devices to hack
your information. so when you're working on a computer network, it's possible that other
computer users might want to hack your information but if you have installed a firewall in your
network, there's a high possibility that your information will be safe and your device will
not be hacked. So this prevents your device from being hacked. Prevention from hacking
but a firewall is different from antivirus. Antivirus stops the virus from entering into
your device and firewall prevents hacking. So you should have both of them on your computer
to keep it safer.
Let’s look at the next word, hardware. Well, that's a very commonly heard term. We know
that software is the part of the computer that you cannot touch, which is non-tangible
but hardware is the parts or the units of the computer that you can touch, for example,
your desktop, your CPU and your keyboard, is what hardware is. The tangible parts of
a computer
and now we are going to look at the next words.
Homepage. So the word home here means the first page that you see when you click on
a website. It usually links to other websites for example, if your homepage or on your computer
is Google. So when you log in to your device or your computer, the first page that appears
on the screen is Google and it has links to other websites. So when you want to visit
other websites, you can type into the search bar and it will lead you to other links but
the first page on your screen or the first page of a website is called a homepage. The
first page of a website.
Let’s look at the word, netiquette. Does that sound like a word that you ever heard
before? Something like etiquette? Yes, netiquette is the etiquette that you require on computer
or networks or the internet. These are some informal rules that are designed for users
on the internet. So you should really avoid stalking other people's website, that's not
good. That’s one computer netiquette and you should also try not to share your personal
information on the internet. For example, particularly on a public network. You should
not share your banking details or your login ID and password for an important website.
So be sure, you follow the computer netiquette. The informal rules designed for the users.
Spam, spam is also be used outside of the computer vocabulary like the unwanted people
in your life are spam. The same way, the unwanted emails that go into your trash or junk folder
are called spam. So if you have any spam in your life, you need to get rid of it and if
you've got any spam on your email or on your email account, then you need to empty your
trash folder or your junk file. Unwanted Emails. These emails are usually promotional in nature
and they are there for marketing purposes. So for example, you've subscribed to a particular
website, all the emails that you receive from that website for promotional purposes will
go into your trash folder but your personal emails will be in the main and primary inbox.
So that can be differentiated and it makes it easier for you to understand and organize
your account.
Let’s look at the next word, spyware something like adware, it sounds similar. So spyware
is when you have a particular website, for example, Google continuously spies the website
that you are visiting. So if you're planning a trip to Dubai and you've recently searched
for it, after some time when you visit another website, there will be an ad popping up on
the other half of the page for a trip to Dubai. The cheapest trip to Dubai, trip to Dubai.
You know this cannot be a coincidence, there's surely someone spying on you and possibly
that's Google. So you should really sue them and they have spyware installed on their website,
which comes, the moment you click on the website. To detect your internet habits.
With that let's look at the second last word, VC, video conference; this is also a very
common term. You must have heard of Skype, that’s exactly what Video Conference is.
When you can see somebody and listen to somebody at the same time. Sometimes it can be between
two people and sometimes it can be between more than two people. It could be a group
of 5 to 10 people but what you need is that everyone should have that particular application
installed on their device. So only when it's installed, when Skype is installed on another
person's device, you can have a Skype conference or a video conference with that person. An
audiovisual communication on the internet.
With that, we look at the last word, which is really hard to pronounce, it's kind of
weird. How do we call that? Do you wanna try it? Weezee, weezee, something, it's called
WYSIWYG which means what you see is what you get. Yes not in the video but otherwise. So
when you're using software, there are certain software, for example, video editors like
After Effects, when you're using that software if you're clicking on the red colour that's
exactly what you'll see on the screen. If you're clicking on any other feature of the
website, sorry of the software, it will appear on the screen and the same thing is going
to go for the print or the filming of the video that you're editing. So what you see
is what you get.
I wish this rule was applicable to our lives as well. So that whatever we saw is only what
we got and then we wouldn't want to see anything bad. I hope you come back with another vocabulary
for another vocabulary lesson with me Michelle. I hope to see you very soon, till then you
take care, bye.