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Title:
1001 computer words you need to know
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004
ISBN:
9780195167757

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Summary

Summary

1001 Computer Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the essential vocabulary of computers and the Internet. This comprehensive, but never condescending guide to the language of the electronic age carefully defines and explains every term with a sample sentence, and many entries have supplementary notes. In addition, the book includes a number of quick miniguides to managing your online life - dealing with Windows and Macs (and sometimes *nix), burning CDs and downloading files, word processing, spread-sheeting, connecting to the Internet (dialup, cable, DSL, wireless) surfing, IMing and emailing, taking digital photos, coping with networks, memory, and drives, and just plain coping with your computer.
The backmatter contains an extensive list of helpful websites and an essay about online language and etiquette.


Author Notes

Erin McKean is the founder of Wordnik.com. Previously, she was the editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, and the editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2E. Her non-fiction books include Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, That's Amore, and The Hundred Dresses. Her first novel, The Secret Lives of Dresses, was published in 2011.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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For the $20 this dictionary costs, you are better off looking up terms online. Computer terminology is generated faster than books about computers can be published. Spot checks show that while definitions in this dictionary are accurate, the words defined are basic. "RSS," for example, eludes this dictionary but can be found in Wikipedia , which translates RSS four ways. Although Pournelle's dictionary defines "user-friendly," you may not find it to be such; the brief essay "Hoaxes, Frauds, and Identity Theft," for example, is located in the m's. At best, this work may suit computer novices, but even they will need a more pragmatic introduction to the use of personal computers. ^BSumming Up: Not recommended. J. C. Shane University of New Mexico