At MyMac.com, and other computer sites, terms like freeware, burn, jpeg, and more are being used all of the time. Sometimes we (the writers) take for granted that the audience understands what we are talking about. I figured I’d make a list of ten of the more common terms we might use in articles. You might look at a lot of the words below and think they are common sense. What might be common sense to you might be totally foreign to another person.
1. Download: When you view a website, or email, or anything on the internet, those files are being downloaded to your computer. In other words, they are coming from another computer, somewhere in the world, and being sent to your computer through your internet connection.
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FinderPop 1.6.2
Author: Turlough O’Connor,
Freeware
FinderPop is a small, efficient, and useful program that can enhance your experience with MacOS 8′s contextual menu feature. This control panel works by adding useful menu items to your usual pop-up contextual menus (Control-click in OS 8), such as an optional “Desktop” item to show all the items on the desktop, a “Processes” submenu that allows you to see you available free memory and switch to any other application, a “Finder Windows” menu that is useful for browsing many open windows within the Finder, and various items like “Empty Trash”, “Change Desktop Background” and “New Folder.” In addition to these features, FinderPop also has a “FinderPop Items” folder that can be customized with aliases and programs just like the Apple Menu, and the entire “View” menu for full contextual menu-based control of a window’s appearance. It can even allow a user to click and hold the mouse to bring a contextual menu up instead of having to hold the control key down.
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