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audio clip


A sound file (for example, music or spoken word) which has been placed on the internet to either download or listen to online.
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video clip


A short piece of video footage. YouTube is a popular website which hosts video clips.
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apple


A company set up by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976, which makes computers (such as Macs), MP3 players (iPods), software (such as iTunes) mobile phones (iPhones) and more.
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qwerty


A standard keyboard, so named because the main letters across the top happen to spell out 'QWERTY'. This doesn't mean anything, but serves as a handy nickname.
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3gp


A type of video format which can be played on mobile phones.
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browser window


The part of your browser which displays files. The browser window you are currently looking at starts above the BBC banner at the top of this page and ends under the black bar at the bottom of it.
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dns


Domain Name System: the method through which human-readable web addresses (like bbc.co.uk) are re-directed to the IP addresses the websites are hosted on (like 11.22.33.44).
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download


To transfer a file from the internet on to your computer.
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dpi


Dots per inch: often used in relation to digital cameras and images, DPI refers to the amount of detail contained in an image. A high DPI image will contain lots of detail.
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drm


Digital rights management: a way of controlling how different types of files are used eg, music tracks bought via one company's software/music player might not be playable by other types of softw [..]
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