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| E-commerce | Conducting business over the internet. |
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| EIDE | (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) An extremely popular hard disk format. As its name implies, an upgraded version of IDE. |
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| EISA | (Extended Industry Standard Architecture; pr. [ee-icer]) An upgraded version of ISA, now obsolete; usually used with reference to expansion cards. |
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| Email | (Electronic mail ) A way to send messages between computers, or more to the point their users, either over a network or the Internet. E-mail is usually just text. Although it is possible to send pictures, sounds or even programs as e-mail. |
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| Emoticon | (EMOTion ICON) A group of symbols used to indicate emotions in email or newsgroups. The most popular is the smiley :-) or :) |
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| Encrypt, encryption | Coding data so that it can\\\'t be read by hackers etc when transmitted over the internet. For example, any reputable website selling goods by credit card will encrypt your credit card number and personal details. |
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| Ethernet | The most popular system used to connect a computer to a network, including most broadband internet connections. The computer needs to be fitted with an expansion card, usually called an Ethernet or NIC card. |
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| Excel | The most popular spreadsheet program for PCs, part of the Microsoft Office suite. |
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| exe (or .exe) | (EXEcutable; pr. [exie], [dot exie] ) A file which is usually the main part of a program. A program may consist of just an exe file and nothing else, or there may be dozens of files, including more exes. |
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| Expansion card (or board) | A circuitboard which can be inserted into an expansion slot on the PC\\\'s motherboard, to give the PC extra capabilities. Common examples are sound cards, graphics cards and network cards. |
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| Expansion-slot | A socket on a PC motherboard into which you can insert expansion cards to increase the PC\\\'s capabilities. Most PCs have several PCI slots, plus an AGP slot for a graphics card. |
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| Extension | The part of a PC filename after the dot (.), often used to tell Windows what type of file it is. For example, files ending in .exe are programs, and files ending .jpg or .gif are pictures. Note that Windows is sometimes set up not to display the extension in Windows Explorer or My Computer, another helpful idea to confuse beginners from our friends at Microsoft. |
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