Geek Speak - Tech Vocab

The term used for saving a website to your favorites so that you don’t have to go through the redundant process of typing in the URL each time you visit a website

• Format

• Process

• Bookmark

• Cursor

The term used for linking a website URL on text or a shape or image.

• Icon

• Hyperlink

• Software

• Keyboard

Some common ones of these are Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. They are used to navigate the internet.

• Audio

• Cursor

• Spreadsheet

• Browser

Researchers use these when typing their query into a search engine

• Keywords

• Value

• Source

• Document

To view how a window/document will look when it is printed you can use

• Print key

• print screen

• print

• print preview

The information processed or stored by a computer is called

• Grid

• Setting

• Data

• Tag

When we want to take information from somewhere else and put it onto our computer we have to ________ it

• Grid

• Write

• Support

• Download

A computer uses these as a visual representation of a program, files, or software

• Audio

• Web

• Icon

• Word

When you first start up a brand new computer, all of the settings are set to factory _______

• Audio

• Default

• Icon

• Cursor

This key takes a screenshot of your computer screen

• Print Screen

• hyperlink

• back button

• space bar