Computer Collection Of Words For Beginners

!±8± Computer Collection Of Words For Beginners

Application - computer software that is designed for a specific type of activity.

Assistant - Perhaps you are already familiar with this. The assistant appears in the form of a dopey dog or a bouncing ball etc that mostly appears on the right hand side of the screen. Its task is to try to guess what you may need help with. Based on your actions. As you type it will provide relevant help topics. It cannot read your mind and this is where you come in and learn their language of command.

Bookmark - A saved link to a web address, also called a hot list entry or favourite place

Boot - To boot your computer means to start it up. To give the computer more space for memory.

Browser - A piece of software that finds and displays web pages and other documents stored on the Internet. A program used to connect to sites on the World Wide Web.

Byte - Generally a text character is defined by eight bits, which are equal to one byte. A kilobyte is actually 1024 bytes, while a megabyte is equal to 1024 Kilobytes.

CD ROM - A compact disc read only memory, which is a disk similar to and audio cd that stores information data that can only be read.

Channel - A web page set up for continuous updating.

Click - To click the mouse button then releasing it.

Client - A program such as a web browser that connects to a centralized server program and obtains information from it.

Client Server model - A methods of sharing computer and network resources by centralizing some functions with a server and allowing individual clients to connect to the server to perform those functions.

Cookies - They are bits of data that web sites put on computers so they can track what people do on line You can use your browser to delete cookies from kids hard disk.

CPU - Central processing unit. Is the main microprocessor or the electronic brain inside the computer?

Crash - A failure of computer software or hardware, which freezes the computer.

Cursor - The arrow on a monitor that indicates where on the screen you are working.

Customize -

Ø Word 2000 creates a bunch of customized documents. One primary letter for each person in your database (as in the address book).

Ø To send the same letter to more than one person only the names and addresses will change.

Data - A source and piece of information.

Database - An organized store of information.

Data source - A document that contains a list of information

Desktop - The main interface of the operating system that is shown on the screen of your computer after it has started up and before any programs are running

Desktop Publishing - Creates magazines, newspapers or any other printed material using a desktop computer and page layout software.

Detailed Area - The main body of a form and will contain all of the fields required, lines, texts and text boxes.

Dialler - Software that connects your computer to an Internet service provider.

DTP - Desktop Publishing.

Digital - Any device that utilizes binary code. All computers are digital.

Disk Drive - The device that holds, reads and writes on to a disk such as a floppy or zip disks.

Downloading - Means copying files from the Internet to your computer hard disk.

Drag - To click on something and move it to a new place, while holding down the mouse button.

Drop Down List - This list displays a set of choices

DVD - A digital versatile disk, a disk that looks much like a CD-ROM but can hold seven times more information.

Edit - A time saving feature that helps you with text in a document service available such as delete, documents, spelling and grammar.

Email - Electronic mail that allows you to send messages to other people and organisations are on the Internet or linked to your computer on a network.

Fax Modem - A device that allows you to connect your computer to other computers via the phone lines as well as to send and receive faxes.

Field Properties - This area will allow you to set up field rules and formats. The options may change depending upon the data type you selected for a field.

Field Size - This allows us to set the size of a field. It will fill a fixed space on the disk. It is wise to have a minimum size set to each field.

Field Format - This section appears instead of the field size when you have selected a date or numerical data type. The Field format will display the date or number in a specific format.

Field Caption - This controls the field name in a form or report. The actual field is called Name, however the caption may display a label reading Members Name in the forms and report areas

Files - A block of information on a hard disk or a floppy disk. Information like word processing a document stored on the floppy or the hard disk and they are referred as files.

Filter - A special effect that can be applied to a graphics image, such as texture. Usually found in Paint such as Adobe Photoshop.

Floppy Disk - A portable data storage disk. Floppies hold about 1.4MB of data and so are only really useful for storing text files.

Folder - A storage place for computer files. Folders can store anything from applications to your personal work.

Font - Different kind of letters in the alphabet that your can use and change to any size and shape.

Footer - This area will be displayed at the bottom of each form view. It will generally contain specific text, borders or fields.

Format - This makes the appearance of your document and carries a variety of Fonts, Styles, Colour, working with Spacing, margins and creating columns.

FTP - File Transfer Protocol, also used to describe Internet public file archive sites (FTP sites)

Hacking - Is when someone illegally and for the purposes of influencing and controlling another computer system.

Hard Copy - The output of computer information as a copy on paper.

Hard Disk - A computer main storage disk, which holds the operating system and application files.

Hardware - The equipment that makes up a computer disk drives, processor, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer etc.

Header

Ø (The Form Header) - This is the area to be displayed at the top on the form view. It generally contains a heading of what the form is about

Ø (The Page Header) - This area will be displayed at the top of each printed page.

Home page - The central document or default start-up page of a World Wide Web or individual page.

HTML - The hypertext mark up language. The language consisting mainly of formatting tags, used to describe a document for the World Wide Web, including both structural formatting and hyperlinks.

: -) Smiling : -D laughing : -O shocked or surprised : -(Sad ; -) Winking

; - P poking out your tongue

; - * Kiss

Icons - A small graphic displayed on the computer screen, which represents a command or file.

Image map - An image that connects to different URL's depending on which part of the image is clicked.

Import - To put a file you saved and bring back to continue your task.

Index - This will sort automatically in ascending order by this field. It can slow the data entry process, as it will sort itself whilst you are entering the data.

Integration - The convergence of two technologies into one such as the mythical convergence of TV and computers.

Internet - A collection of networks and computers all over the world all of which share information or at least email, using agreed upon Internet protocols. An international network of millions of university, government, commercial and private Computers

Internet importance - Why is the Internet important to the future of Kids.

a) Research / homework

b) Staying in the touch with anyone, everyone all around the globe.

c) All visual information on bobbies and sports

d) Downloading files playing music TV, games and surfing along the three WWW.

Intranet - Is the small versions of the Internet, usually operating within a corporation. The technology of the Internet on a smaller scale.

IP - Internet Protocol

IRC - Internet Relay cat (this needs a special software)

Java - A computer language designed to extend the capabilities of the Web, and that it can only present information in predefined formats, mostly Text, picture and simple animation.

Justification - To justify means to line up evenly.

Link - A specially designed word or image that when clicked takes a wet browser to a new page or other destination an embedded web address.

Manipulate - users on the Internet can easily manage, influence or change cleverly and unfairly for their own purpose and advantage. So take extra care as well as good people you will also find bad. Special care with images and graphics software packages.

Modem - The box that connects your computer to a normal phone line.

Mouse - The computer tool that you hold you hold and click leading you to actions and commands.

Multimedia - The incorporation of many different media often including text, pictures, sounds, video, animation and so on.

Netscape Navigator - The Web Browser

Net - A loosely defined term meant to suggest the loose association of all or most computers on the planet. This term generally refers to a more inclusive set of linked networks than just the Internet but it also corresponds roughly to the Internet.

Net casting - Publishing Web content on a continuous basis to subscribed viewers also called web casting and push.

Option Button - This marks a black dot that appears in its centre. Only one option button in a group can be marked. They are sometimes referred to as the Radio Buttons

Page - On the World Wide Web, an HTML document.

PC - The personal computer used widely by the computer industry to refer to IBM computers.

Pixel - A single dot on a computer screen.

Port - A connector part to the computer that allows your to connect a device such as a printer, a digital camera microphone etc.

Portal - A major Web site that large numbers of visitors use as a starting point on the web

Punctuation - The practice of inserting marks into your text.

ROM - A read only memory instructions stored for a period of time until such time that the computers is turned off. That is why you must save important documents to floppy disk at the end of the day saving your work on an external disk

Safety/awareness - Personal details are those about your name, address and phone numbers.

Save/ Save As - When saving a file or document it will automatically enter the report title name as the file name. If you use the save function, but want to be more specific about the file name then you must use Save As. You can save web pages as files and store them on your hard drive or /and can be printed

Scroll Bars - This allows you to browse through a document an Are located on the right side of your window.

Search engines - Allows uses to search for files and pages on the Internet entering keyboards that are run against a database.

There are three different types of search engines: -

Ø Standard Search Engines uses a combination off commands established by the user, which searches to find World Wide Web documents from the database.

Ø Search Engines, This growth has led to the development of Meta search tools that are often referred to as, threaded search engines. These allow the user to search multiple databases simultaneously, via a single interface.

SubjectGuides, The subject guides are organized indexes of subjects category that allow the Web searcher to browse through lists of web sites by the subjects. They are compiled and maintained by people and many include a search engine for searching their own database

Server - A piece of software or a machine that acts as a centralized source of information or computing resources such as web sites, gopher menus, FTP archives and so on that are available to clients.

Site -

Ø A location on the Internet, often the host of one or more severs, or a set of related web pages.

Ø Publishing a Web site for computer users to seat the quickest way possible. Choosing the web server from the list and copy, you need to install it first using the Internet tools and choosing the Web Publishing Wizard. A web site is a collection of related documents.

Shareware - Is soft ware that is offered to users on a trial basis on the condition that, if it is regularly used, a payment is then made to own.

Software - A series of instructions that comes on a CD to tell the computer how to do things and how to install new programs

Table - To create a table in your Web page insert the table button you will find this on the Standard Toolbar follow instructions as in a Word Document, existing tables are known as Nested tables.

Tabs - A tab contains a separate set of options to bring a tab to the front just click it.

Task Pane - This gives you an option that you can select to perform ordinary Tasks e.g. opening a document.

TCP / IP - Transmission control Protocol

Text Box - A text box is a box in which you can type text, and can be replaced by dragging over it.

Theme - To add or change a theme as in background colours you might need to move up to the Web tools toolbar then the web Layout view comes handy so have some fun use all of the tools available.

Upload - When you send a copy of a file from another computer.

URL - Universal as in Web Addresses.

Virus - A small program that is designed to spread ( like when someone in the family gets the flu everyone gets the flu)Some viruses are harmless and very annoying but there ore others that can cause serious damage to the contents of a computer.

Viewing - Viewing a Web page is important, you will read it the same way as the person receiving it.

Web - In Word 2000 creating a web page is easy you can use the web page Wizard, or the Web Templates to create pages fast. The web is just one part of the Internet; it displays information on the Internet. You access information using a special program called Web Browser the information on the Web is displayed on pages. The web is the most commonly used. The pages are written HTML protocol a system by which documents are linked.

Web browser - This is software that allows your computer to display Web pages. It is usually used when the computer is connected to the Internet.

Window - A screen within your computer display that displays information from a particular program or function. It enables you to have different programs files or documents on the display at the same time.

Word Processing - The word processing program produces efficiency and processional looking document such as letters, reports, essays and newsletters

WWW - The World Wide Web developed to make the Internet easier to navigate the Web, combines text with graphics, animation and many more.

Computer Collection Of Words For Beginners

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How to Update Your Website

!±8± How to Update Your Website

A couple of years ago you spent quite bit of money on your website and now you desperately need to update it. It's easier than you think. I am here to help you. There are many ways to get your website updated. I will go over them step by step. This information will be especially useful to site owners of static websites. When we speak about static websites we are mainly talking about websites that are not database driven. So, how do you find out if your site is database driven or not? Well, if it's a huge site with over 50 pages there is a big chance that your website is database driven. One sure way to find out is get in touch with your web designer.

The next thing that you need to determine is the programming language that was used to build your website. I hear you saying "Aren't all websites built with HTML?" The answer to that is yes and no, yes they can be fully built with HTML but most contemporary websites are built using a mix of HTML, CSS (which stands for Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript and sometimes server side scripts such as PHP or ASP. How to determine the language used to build your site? Go to the destination website that needs to be updated and click on a random link notice the file extension in your Browser URL bar. You'll notice for example that your URL either ends on ".HTML", ".PHP" or "ASP". There are a few more extensions. You can find a list of these extensions on w3schools.com By the way a great website that actually offers free online lessons and code samples for many programming languages. Definitely worth a visit.

Back to our main topic. Again focusing on static websites, you'll need some tools to update/expand your website. Here are the 2 tools you'll need: 1. An HTML editor such as Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Dreamweaver or GoLive. The list is long and there are many HTML editing tools out there. But my suggestion is go with the pro tools and download a 30 day free trial of Adobe's Dreamweaver found on the website of http://www.adobe.com Dreamweaver is the industry leading web development tool. 2. You'll also need a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. The FTP tool allows you to connect to a remote server (This is where your website resides on) and modify data. Again there are a lot of FTP tools available, but the most workable ones are from CuteFTP, WSFTP, and FlashFXP. They all have one purpose upload to or download from your web server. My suggestion is go with this one: "Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 2007" you can try it for free.

You can find and download this tool at downloads.com To get your FTP tool to work and connect to your web server you'll need the following information: 1 Your FTP server address (you can obtain that from your hosting provider) 2. FTP Username (if you don't know your username and password combination, contact your hosting provider) 3. Password (if you don't know your username and password combination, contact your hosting provider). With these tools you'll be able to connect to your webserver and make modifications to your website.

How to Update Your Website

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Heroic German Shepherd Helps Two POWs Escape From the North Vietnamese

!±8± Heroic German Shepherd Helps Two POWs Escape From the North Vietnamese

Just as the North Vietnamese firing squad lined up to execute the POWs, from behind a dried-up banana grove a burst of M16 automatic fire hit the four North Vietnamese soldiers in the squad, cutting them below the waist. With the next short burst the other two soldiers next to them keeled over.

Shirtless, face muddied, with a wide, white-toothed smile, Nino Aquino "the Lurp" --Sabino's best friend-- advanced, a ten-inch gleaming blade in his hand, and Sabino's huge German Shepherd, Vinonegro, right by his side. Without effort, Nino cut the ropes, helping Sabino to his feet. Unable to contain his emotions much longer, Vinonegro stood up placing his front paws on Sabino's chest and licked his face, all the while whimpering, yelping and emitting almost inaudible barks.

"Vinonegro tracked you down, man--he never lost your scent!" said Nino as he helped Major Bates to his feet. But the Major couldn't hold himself up and collapsed to the ground. Both Sabino and Nino kneeled down to examine the Major's severed tendon.

"That looks bad, man," said Nino. "The river isn't far from here, Vinonegro knows the way. But we need to make some headway now--I mean now!"

Only after a splatter of blood hit his face did Sabino realize that the mama-san had snuck up behind them and with incredible speed and viciousness slit Nino's throat.

Shrieking and hooting, the wiry woman lunged off toward the banana grove, but before she even reached the edge, Vinonegro brought her down with one arching leap. In the next second he had locked his jaws around the woman's scrawny neck, and with incredible force he whipped the woman side to side like a rag doll. By the time Sabino reacted and whistled his cease and release code, the woman was already dead.

"Never trust a woman with bad teeth in black pajamas - Mama-san Death," Nino rasped weakly. "Take the blade... I want you to have it." As he grabbed the 10-inch blade, he felt Nino take his last breath and die in his arms. That's what life is --a sigh, a puff or breath-- God's spirit.

After collecting the dog tags from Lieutenant Burch and Nino Aquino, Sabino looked around, grabbed a pistol and a Zippo lighter, immediately heading west in search of the river. It was a painful journey. With Vinonegro, the magnificent hound, walking point, Sabino and Major Bates simply followed him. Once in a while Vinonegro would disappear as he trotted ahead, returning soon, his tail switching as if telling Sabino "this is the right way." As daylight waned, they decided to hide in thick, knee-high elephant grass and wait the night out. It wasn't long before they fell asleep, lulled by the distant shelling, the faint outburst of Russian AK-47 rifle fire and the drone of B52s in the stratosphere. So fatigued were they that even the trumpeting of mosquitoes or the scurrying of rodents, frogs, scorpions and other creatures and crawlers of the night could not stir them from their deep slumber.

At sunup, a soft snarl in his ear alerted Sabino to danger. When he sat up he saw Vinonegro point towards the edge of the grass patch; he then heard the stamping of feet. A squad of Victor Charlies-VCs, or Viet Cong fighters-was on the move in their opposite direction less than twenty yards away from them. A search party looking for us, he thought. As the noise from the footfalls faded in the distance, Sabino scratched Vinonegro ears, caressed his dew-damp coat, and whispered to him, "Good, boy, Vino! You can really sniff Charlie sweating out that nuoc mam." Soon thereafter they got started, but made very little progress because Major Bates could no longer hop, his good leg now cramping and knotting. They halted for a while. Although the Air Force owned the skies --for during the day they heard the continuous drone of B-52s and saw fighter bombers and assault helicopters swoop overhead-- they couldn't signal at all because the fields and woods were teeming with Viet Cong squads. Only once, when a C-123 cargo plane swooped down in a low glide to unload defoliants did Sabino dare signal, but to no avail for a white dust-gathering into puffy clouds of Agent Orange-soon covered the sky.

"You go, Sabino...I can't make it...this is as far as I can go." Sabino saw that the Major's foot had swollen to the size of a football.

"You are a noble man, Major Bates. You took that bullet because of me and I won't leave you; I owe you my life and I will help you to the last gasp. We both go or I'll stay with you and we'll both die. Hang on. I will make a litter and drag you to the river...it is just a short ways, then we'll be safe."

With as much energy as he could muster, Sabino cut some branches and tied them together with strips of cloth he tore from both of their shirts. The rest of the cloth he used to improvise a harness, and when the harness broke, he fashioned stronger strips from his pants. Sabino was a sight to behold: blood was caked on his six-day unshaven face, one eyebrow hung loose over his eye, his legs were bleeding from hundreds of tiny grass-blade cuts, and his hair was thickly matted. And were it not for his boots and the torn skivvies --by now a scant, muddied apron that partially covered his rump and private parts-- he would be totally naked. This, too, shall pass, he'd repeat to himself, and he'd drift into long-ago-lived scenes: His freshman year at Columbia College. He'd see himself walking along Broadway and stopping by the West End Bar to have a beer, or having a cup of coffee at the Chock Full O'Nuts at the corner of 116th Street, or hurrying to class, circling around the Sun Dial on his way to Hamilton Hall. Or he'd conjured up visions of his sophomore and junior years in which he roamed through the Lions' Den, Canon Bar, the Abbey Pub, and other waterholes frequented by Columbia undergrads.

With the will of a possessed Olympian god determined to win against all odds, he dragged the litter one step at a time, all the while hearing his father's voice: God and honor, Sabino; or what's a man for? And at times he'd also hear the melancholy peals of his mother's organ, or Melodium, as she was fond of calling her much beloved instrument, or her sweet voice: You'll grow up to be a man of right, Sabino; a man who loves God and defends his friends and his women.

Wearied beyond human endurance, he trudged on with quaking, weak-ever weaker-steps, while his burden seemed to get heavier with each pull and tug. Yet, glancing over his shoulder, he'd prop up the Major's sagging spirit: "I hear the water, and now I smell it - hang in there, Major!" When Vinonegro trotted ahead and didn't return within his usual scout time, Sabino knew something was up. Major Bates asked Sabino to go see and to take the gun, to which Sabino signaled no: a gunshot would bring a swarm of Victor Charlies in a minute. He whispered, "I'll take Nino's knife." Then he heard Vinonegro' growl-- for the kennel geneticists had hardwired his breed not to bark when out in the field searching for Charlie-- growing more menacing.

In one second, Sabino assessed the situation. Vinonegro had cornered a Monocled cobra against a rocky wall. Hissing, baring its fangs, the huge snake wasn't about to yield an inch of its territory. Vinonegro would retreat only enough to get out of the cobra's striking range, for when the primeval reptile stood on its end, it rose at least seven or eight feet tall. During a pregnant interval, both stared at each other as if locked in a blinking game. At times Vinonegro would also stand on his hind legs, his black-reddish coat fluffed up, the black and copper bristles on his face and neck straight out like knitting needles. The instant the cobra saw Sabino it stood again, challenging him, its tongue darting and flicking, its head frozen as if suspended in the air by an invisible rope, gently swaying and biding its time to strike. After the initial sighting, Sabino backtracked less from fear than from awe of the magnificent beast. Angel and Fiend, he thought as he turned back to the spot where he had left Major Bates. But in a minute he returned to find Vinonegro and the cobra locked in a staring down duel. Time, noise, change, motion, and succession had stopped for both. Stillness reigned. Taking advantage of the frozen moment, Sabino got closer --feeling his heart stop between beats-- and with a swift thrust, he trapped the cobra's coiled end with the V shaped pole from the stretcher. In the next second Sabino heard not a hiss but a cavernous grunt from the depths of the monster-cobra while its ribs fanned outward forming a sinister hood. Slowly the fearless man moved the V end of the pole towards the head while holding its tail with his heavy boot, but just then a grating sound distracted Sabino, causing the snake to break out of the hold.

It took him but a fraction of a second to realize that the accursed brute had distracted him by grating its scales against each other. But just as the fiend attempted to flee, Sabino seized its neck with his two bared hands, both --man and fiend-- wrestling and rolling on the ground away from the rocky wall. Within seconds the giant serpent wrapped its body around Sabino's torso and legs, entwining and crushing the man's flesh and sinews. Meanwhile, Vinonegro, as if guided by human sense rather than canine instinct, kept sinking his teeth into the snake's soft underbelly. Though the animal didn't have the power of a Boa Constrictor to crush his ribs, Sabino knew that he could only keep his grip for so long, and that the snake would outlast him despite Vinonegro relentless attack.

I've been in worse situations, he thought, and always come out alive-this shall pass, too. Slowly he regained his balance and attempted to maneuver himself onto his knees, but the cobra as if guessing his intentions constricted even tighter. He recalled the time in his childhood when a farm worker had caught a rattle snake by its tail and swung its head against a rock. He could still see the man then drawing his machete and slicing the animal in two, and his fascination in seeing that out of the belly of the mother snake four or five diminutive neonates slithered out; the farmhand explaining to him that the mother protected her hatchlings by keeping them warm in her belly, that it was a myth that the rattlers ate their babies. Crush her head against the rocks, he heard himself say. But how if I can't get near the boulder?

Try as hard as he might, he just couldn't maneuver his legs. The muscles in his forearms were now beginning to feel tired, and he could feel his grip begin to slack. In panic and desperation he drove the head into the ground, but the damned animal tensed up, twisted, and resisted. Just when he was about to let go, for he could no longer keep the hold, he heard a familiar voice: "Hold her still," he heard Major Bates yell.

Sabino saw the Major hopping in one leg, Nino's gleaming blade in hand. With one sharp stroke of the well-balanced blade, Major Bates decapitated the huge fiend. The Major patted Sabino on the shoulder, "You're some tough hombre, Sabino." They both looked at each other in silence and in that finite instant in that remote, godforsaken place of the universe they bonded; though little did they know that they had bonded for a lifetime. While the snake's body twitched and uncoiled, Vinonegro --belly down on the ground-- his ears drawn back, watched it, fascinated by the leeches springing out from between the scales. Soon after Sabino eviscerated and skinned the magnificent but lethal creature and raw snake filet was their appetizer and main dish. And for dessert Sabino skewered tidbits of the juiciest and softest meat, which he charred with the Zippo lighter he had wisely carried away.

Without hunger pangs and refreshed, Sabino hitched up the harness again. After a long stretch of super-human effort, they reached a patch of rocky terrain. He stopped talking to Major Bates because the man was --exhausted and wasted by the hobbling and pressure he had put on the tumescent foot-- feverish and delirious, his bad foot glistening like an unripe, oversized, dark-green eggplant.

So tired...The straps were now cutting deep into his chest and shoulders, his hands blistered.

When Vinonegro pointed at the dark squadron of bats flying overhead towards the line of white-dusted poplars and weeping willows, Sabino knew the river was near. And in a short while he saw a forlorn, napalm-burnt Buddhist pagoda and the boulders, both a football-field distant. And just as he collapsed from exhaustion, his mind a blank slate, Vinonegro took off at full speed.

In an eerie subliminal zone of his feverish mind, Sabino dreamt or imagined that the cobra's pining mate had slithered to his side and wrapped herself around him immobilizing his legs and arms, and that her fiery breath was not only scorching his mouth but also muting his voice. Loud as he might scream no one could hear him; his scream was utterly voiceless. Then the fire subsided and a refreshing coolness soothed his smoldering face. Sabino came to his senses when he felt Vinonegro's thoroughly wet snout refreshing his face, and standing next to him three Buddhist monks with shaven heads, looking down at him.

With a feeble gesture Sabino groped for his blade like a punch-drunk boxer looks for his lost mouth protector on the canvas. "Take it easy, brother," he heard a voice resonate and echo in the chambers of his mind: "easy... easy.... brother... brother. Relax, homeboy, boy... boy... boyyyy-you're in good hands now," the voice continued in perfect American English. Sabino's eyelids fluttered and when he focused, his eyes seemed to say, "Who'n the hell are you?" Reading the quizzical look, the senior monk said, "CIA--your hound brought us to you."

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Top 10 Meeting Ice Breakers

!±8± Top 10 Meeting Ice Breakers

Getting people comfortable in a group setting before a team meeting can be the best investment of ten to 15 minutes of time that you can make. Ice breakers get creative juices flowing, can increase the exchange of ideas, establish team identity, and create a sense of community. All of these items are important in forging top productive teams. But how do you get people to participate and not feel uncomfortable with an ice breaker?

For meetings in a business setting in which participants are professionals, ice breakers that require actions not normally associated with day-to-day behaviors in the office generally make people uncomfortable. Successful ice breakers for these type of groups generally consist of having attendees share memorable information with each other, create innovative ways to get people to introduce themselves to each other, or have group members collectively work on a problem where everyone has to contribute.

We've selected our top ten team meeting ice breakers that are sure to get your meeting participants relaxed and ready to focus on your agenda as well as to connect with others in the group.

1. Brainstorm!:Break the meeting into teams of four or five. Give each team a topic. Pick topics that are fun and simple like, "What would you take on a trip to the desert?" or "List things that are purple". Give your teams two minutes, no more, and tell them "This is a contest and the team with the most items on their list wins." Encourage the teams to write down as many things as they can and not to discuss anything, just list things as quickly as possible. At the end of two minutes, the team with the most items on their list wins! This helps people to share ideas without fearing what other people will think.

2. Same or Different:

Divide the meeting into teams of three or four and give each team a large sheet of paper and then give each person a different colored marker. Have each person draw a large oval such that each oval overlaps with the other ovals in the center of the piece of paper. Give the group or groups, a theme that pertains to your meeting objectives. Ask the participants to write down at least five or more entries in the non-overlapping and mutually overlapping areas of their ovals. Give them five minutes, no more than that, to talk about their similarities and differences and write them in their own ovals on the paper. If there is more than one group, compare results and identify common themes in both parts of the diagrams and what light these similarities and differences shed on the purpose of the meeting. This helps team members develop an understanding of shared objectives and in a non-confrontational way learn how their views differ from others in the group.

3. Fact or Fiction:

Have everyone write down three surprising things about themselves, two of which are true, and one of which is made up. Each person, in turn, reads their list and then the rest of the group votes on which "fact" they feel is the "false" one. If the group does not correctly pick a person's made up "fact", then that person wins. A group can have more than one winner. At the end, the whole group votes on which of the "winners" of the final round, had the most deceiving "fact". This helps people get to know and remember their colleagues.

4. Free Association:

The object of this ice breaker is to have small groups generate as many words or phrases as they can that are related to a particular topic that focuses on the objective of your meeting. Give the group or groups a key word you want them to associate with and then give them two minutes to list, as quickly as possible, as many words or thoughts that pop into their heads. For example, if your company is trying to decide on whether to reduce travel and increase the use of teleconferencing, you might use the word "teleconferencing" and have people list as many words or phrases they can that they associate with the key word. For example they might say: "saves money", "saves time", "impersonal", "need to see other people", "get distracted", "sound quality".... This reveals what people are thinking, similarities in viewpoints, and possibly even problem areas or topics that need addressing or further discussion.

5. Nametags:

Prepare nametags for each person and put them in a box. As people walk into the room, each person picks a nametag (not their own). When everyone is present, participants are told to find the person whose nametag they drew and introduce and say a few interesting things about themselves. When everyone has their own nametag, each person in the group will introduce the person whose nametag they were initially given and mention something of interest about that person. This helps participants get to know and remember each other.

6. Desert Island:

Group people in teams of five or six and tell them they will be marooned on a desert island. Give them 30 seconds to list all the things they think they should take and each person has to contribute at least three items. At the end of 30 seconds, tell the teams they can only take three things. Have the person who suggested each item on the list tell why they suggested it and defend why their item should be one of the chosen three. This helps the team learn about how each of them thinks, get to know each other's values, and how they solve problems.

7. Commonality Plus:

Group your meeting participants at tables. At each table ask the group to list ten ways that everyone in that group is similar. Let them know that they cannot list body parts or clothing and that what they select cannot have anything to do with work. One person at the table should be tasked to make their list. At the end of your time limit have the group share their list with all meeting members. This is a great opportunity for your meeting attendees to learn about each other's hobbies, families, and common interests.

8. Line Up:

As people enter your meeting hand each one a piece of paper with a different number written on it. Ask the group to arrange themselves in numeric order without using their voices, hands, or showing their number. This helps the team to think of other ways to communicate with each other and to work together to achieve a common goal.

9. Meet and Greet Shoe Pile:

This works great in large groups and is a variation of the name tag ice breaker. Have everyone take off one of their shoes and throw it into a pile. Have each group member pick up a shoe and walk around the meeting room greeting other people as they try to match their selected shoe to the one another team member is wearing. This is a great way for new people to meet several members in a group.

10. First or Worst:

Have each member tell the group their first or worst job in turn. This easy to use ice breaker works great with teleconferences too and allows team members to spark conversation with each other and to have some fun commenting on the jobs that they have each done. Many of our top ten ice breakers can be used for on-site meetings and teleconferences alike. The nature of ice breakers is to get the group to talk, to share, and to get to know each other in a casual exchange. The best and most successful teams start with a little bit of fun; learning how to value what each member brings into the group. Ice breakers can help facilitate this exchange of information and comfort in doing so at the very start of the team forging process.

Top 10 Meeting Ice Breakers

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The initial broadcast receivers used a coherer as well as sound board, and also were merely capable of grabbing Morse code, and thump it out on the board. This specific sort of transmission is actually known as CW (Continuous wave) or even wireless telegraphy. When wireless telephony (ie transmission & receipt of speech) became achievable, talk radio stations greatly improved upon the actual usability regarding radio transmission. Despite this, the particular antiquated technology of morse code transmission continued to enjoy an important function in radio communications until the 1990's.

The idea involving radio as enjoyment became popular in 1920, and also radio ownership progressively obtained in reputation as the years passed. Radio models coming from before 1920 are rarities.

Pre-war models were typically created on solid wood breadboards, in tiny cupboard type pantry shelves, or occasionally on an open piece metal chassis. Homemade models continued to be a powerful sector of radio creation until after the world war. Right up until then there have been more homemade sets in use compared to professional models.

These kind of simple receivers employed no battery, got no boosting as well as could only utilize headsets. They would certainly only receive very strong signals from the nearby station. They were common between the less prosperous because of to their particular minimal build cost and no run charges. Crystal units experienced minimal capability to separate programs, and where more than a single greater power station was existing, failure to get one without having the other seemed to be a basic problem.

Some crystal set end users applied a carbon amplifier or a mechanical turntable amplifier to offer adequate result to operate a speaker. Some actually utilized a flame amp.

Tuned Radio Frequency sets (TRF sets) were the most common style of early radio. These kind of used one or more valves (tubes) to offer boosting. First TRF sets only controlled earphones, but by the 1930s this was more popular to use more boosting to be able to strength a loudspeaker, regardless of the particular cost.

The types of loudspeakers in utilization at the time period have been elementary by today's specifications, as well as the sound quality produced from the loudspeakers used on these kinds of units is sometimes described as torturous.

These speaker system were definitely not entirely clear distinct categories, along with considerable overlap, nor a comprehensive list, however represent the technologies in popular employ.

The original antique radio models utilized no regeneration, as well as had really poor RF sensitivity and low selectivity. As a result only local programs and powerful remote stations would be received, and separating diverse stations was not usually attainable.

Most radio models were reaction sets, as well identified as regenerative receivers. These types of depend on beneficial suggestions to accomplish enough gain. This method worked well enough, yet is actually naturally unstable, and has been susceptible to diverse difficulties. For this reason there was a major amount of hostility over maladjusted receivers sending squealing noises and blocking reception on regional properties.

Radio sets had usually two tuning knobs and an impulse realignment, all of which got to be set up correctly to receive a channel. Earlier reaction models additionally got filament realignment rheostats for each valve, and again adjustments had to be right to obtain reception.

In the time of original radio, mainly the prosperous could purchase to construct a superheterodyne radio (superhet). These kinds of models requested many valves and numerous parts, and constructing one was a substantial process.

Pre-war superhets were often utilized with the relatively pricy shifting coil speakers, which offer a quality of sound unavailable from moving metal audio speakers.

Most post-war professional receivers have been superhets, and this particular technique is still in popular use in consumer radios these days, even if implemented with transistors and integrated circuits.

The advantages of superhets are usually:

Outstanding sensitivity, permitting reception of international broadcasts
Comprehensive stability
Well operated bandwidth
Effectively formed radio wave passband prevents the uncontrolled tone modifications of radio units, and presents excellent selectivity

The negative aspects for pre-war superhets seemed to be:

Pretty huge build fee
Higher operate price due to many valves and the need for substantial higher strength batteries
Design has been a large project

World War 2 produced widespread important demand for radio stations transmission, and foxhole sets were created by people without accessibility to classic radio elements. A foxhole radio is an illegally constructed set from whatever parts one could make, which were very few indeed. Such a set generally used lighting flex for an aerial, a razor blade for a detector, and a tin can, magnet and some wire for an ear piece. I.e. they were crude crystal models.

The console radio has been the main item of every single property back in the era of radio, they were large and high-priced running up to 0 back in the late 1930s. Generally for the rich, these radios were put in hallways and living rooms. Nearly all console radios were waist high and not very wide, as the years went on they got shorter and wider. Most consumer console radios were made by RCA, Philco, General Electric, Montgomery Ward (under the Airline brand name), Sears (under the Silvertone brand name), Westinghouse, radio-bar and many more. Companies such as Zenith, Scott, Atwater-Kent, were usually for the prosperous as their prices ran into the 0-0 range in the 1930s and 1940s.

The supply of the initial bulk made plastic Bakelite allowed designers much more innovation in cabinet styling, and significantly reduced costs. However, Bakelite is a brittle plastic, and dropping a radio could easily break the case. Bakelite is a brown-black mouldable thermosetting plastic, and is still used in some items today.

In the 1930s some radios were created using Catalin, a colourable version of bakelite, but practically all historic bakelite radios are the standard black-brown bakelite colour.

The value of more innovative light coloured thermoplastics in the 1950s made richer models practical. Some of these thermoplastics are slightly translucent.

The creation of the transistor made it possible to develop smaller portable radios that did not need a warm-up period, and ran on much more compact batteries. They were convenient and chic, though the prices were high and the sound quality not so good.

Transistor radios were available in many sizes from console to table-top to matchbox. Transistors are still employed in today's radios, though the integrated circuit containing a large number of transistors has exceeded the use of singly packed transistors for the majority of radio circuitry.

Transistor radios shown up on the market in 1949, but at a high cost. By the 1960s, decreased prices and the desire for transportability made them very well-known.

There was something of a marketing war over the number of transistors sets contained, with many models called after this number. Some sets even had non-functional reject transistors soldered to the circuit board, doing absolutely nothing, so the sales pitch could advertise a higher number of transistors.

Vacuum tube radios and early transistor radios were hand assembled. Today radios are designed with the benefit of computers and constructed with much greater use of equipment.

Today's radios are often uneconomic to fix because mass producing and technological improvements in numerous areas have made them so cheap to buy, while the cost of human labour and workshop overheads have not fallen in real terms.

Antique Radio

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