Swintec 8016 Electric Word Processing Typewriter Electronic-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

Swintec 8016 Electric Word Processing Typewriter Electronic

1986 Swintec 8016 Typewriter Word Processor. No manual included.Ribbon inside is still good enough to print lettering/symbols/numbers onto a sheet of paper, as pictured. This is a very nice professional office electronic typewriter.

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LCCI Text Production-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LCCI TEXT PRODUCTION: LCCI in business, administration and IT Text Production. Our LCCI International Qualifications in Text Production help learners to develop their skills in transcribing and editing documents accurately, using appropriate presentation tools and according to given instructions and specific situations.

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What is a Search Engine?-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

A search engine is a software program or script available through the Internet that searches documents and files for keywords and returns the results of any files containing those keywords. Today, there are thousands of different search engines available on the Internet, each with their own abilities and features. The first search engine ever developed is considered Archie, which was used to search for FTP files and the first text-based search engine is considered Veronica. Today, the most popular and well-known search engine is Google. Other popular search engines include AOL, Ask.com, Baidu, Bing and Yahoo.

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.
Internet content that is not capable of being searched by a web search engine is generally described as the deep web.

Top Search Engines:
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.bing.com
www.ask.com

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Bitly Vs Google Vs Tiny Url: Which URL Shortener is Better for you-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

A URL Shortener Face Off: Bit.ly and Goo.gl Go Head-to-Head 

Wondering which URL shortener is right for you?
Curious what the pros and cons are for Bitly vs Goo.gl?
As a URL shortener ourselves, we, of course, consider ourselves comparable to both Bitly and Google, but if you aren’t interested in using Rebrandly, we want you to know which other URL shorteners might be right for you.
So… Is it Bitly? Or is it Google? Or maybe something else all together. Let’s get into it. But first…
Spoiler: Bit.ly is way better than Goo.gl. Keep reading to find out why.

What to Look For in a URL Shortener

Ever since Twitter changed their rules on how links work inside Tweets, URL shorteners have no longer been about just shrinking a link. They are now more about tracking marketing efforts, branding your business, and using advanced features like link retargeting or conversion tracking.

Two of the most important features of a URL shortener are reliability and speed. Luckily both of these URL shorteners are extremely reliable, and extremely fast, but some of the smaller players in the market are not as reliable (don’t worry, we, at Rebrandly are very reliable as well).
Some of the features you may be looking f1or are:

• Ability to use a custom domain
• Ability to create a custom URL slug
• Number of links you can create for free
• Number of clicks you can get for free
• Link analytics and the dashboard design
• Privacy – keeping the link clicks data private
• Ability to change the destination URL
• Ability to easily add UTM parameters using a URL builder
• Geographical link click information

Unfortunately, you aren’t going to get all of the above with either of these two options, but they are good URL shorteners nonetheless.

 

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YouTube Video by Nixie Pixel -Top 5 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 1,711,639 views-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

So you've finished your Ubuntu install. Now what? You probably want to feel more at home with your new operating system, so here are a few tips on what you can do after installing Ubuntu..Like installing flash player (so you can watch Youtube videos!), multimedia codecs, changing settings such as your icons and wallpaper, and setting up Ubuntu One.

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What is the difference between a URL, Domain, Subdomain, Hostname etc.? -Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

Domain Name

What is the difference between a URL, Domain, Subdomain, Hostname etc.?

The abbreviation “URL” is short for “Uniform Resource Locator” and is commonly used to refer to a website or internet-address, while the actually intended goal is usually a directory or a specific path.

 

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• The structure and components of a URL
• General language use

The structure and components of a URL



What is a URL?



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A URL is usually made up of several parts. To understand the structure and the components, we will dismantle the following example URL:

Structure and components of the URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhcwLyyEjOA

1. The Protocol in use – in this case: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
   • There are also other protocols like HTTPS, FTP and so on.
2. The Host or Hostname: www.youtube.com


3. The Subdomain: www.


4. The domain name (Domain): youtube.com


5. The Top-Level-Domain (a web-address suffix): .com
• (also known by the shorthand TLD) 
6.  The Path: /watch
   • A path will usually refer to a file or folder (directory) on the
     webserver (for example “/folder/file.html”)
7. Parameter and value: v (Parameter), QhcwLyyEjOA (Parameter value)
   • Parameters are initialised by the “?” inside the URL.
     In our example, the parameter name is “v” and its value is “QhcwLyyEjOA” (Parameter name and Parameter value always have the same structure: Parametername=Parametervalue)

General language use

If we talk about a URL, we usually mean the concrete path to a directory (http://www.domain.com/a-directory/) or a file (http://www.domain.com/documents/study.pdf) on a website.
It is, of course, not completely wrong to talk about a URL and simply mean the host- or domain name of a website, but we should try to use the correct terminology.


 Website:


Website Address

A site or website is a central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser. 



How to open a website

To view a website requires a browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Edge, Safari, Firefox, or Chrome). For example, you are reading this web page using a browser. Once in a browser, you can open a website by entering the URL in the address bar. For example, typing https://www.youtube.com opens the YouTube home page. If you don't know the URL of the website you want to visit, you can use a search engine to find the website on the Internet.

What is the difference between a website and web page?

A website refers to a central location that contains more than one web page or a series of web pages. For example, Computer Hope is considered a website, which contains thousands of different web pages, including the page you're reading now.

In the above URL example, the website is computerhope.com and the web page is "url.htm" and is always the last part of the URL.

Who creates websites on the Internet?

Any business, government, or person can create a website on the Internet. Today, the Internet consists of billions of websites created by billions of different people. You can even create a website or blog on the Internet.

 

Blog:

Weblog

A weblog or blog, is a listing of text, images, or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing in 1998. Blogs are often maintained and run by a single individual, updated daily, or contain personal remarks about a topic, a personal ramble, or an update on the person's life. In many ways, many weblogs are like a personal journal or a look into another individual's life and can be a way to learn about people, events, places, and more from people around the world.

Some examples of software and services you can use to create and start personal weblogs include Blogger, Manila, Movable type, LiveJournal, Radio Userland, Typepad, WordPress.

Tip: With the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter many people have also moved from doing blogs to making posts in their social network.

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Operating System (OS)-Maria Skambili Deryneia Famagusta Cyprus

Operating Systems

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, printing, and other resources.
For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and frequently makes system calls to an OS function or is interrupted by it. Operating systems are found on many devices that contain a computer – from cellular phones and video game consoles to web servers and supercomputers.
The dominant desktop operating system is Microsoft Windows with a market share of around 82.74%. macOS by Apple Inc. is in second place (13.23%), and the varieties of Linux are collectively in third place (1.57%). In the mobile (smartphone and tablet combined) sector, use in 2017 is up to 70% of Google's Android and according to third quarter 2016 data, Android on smartphones is dominant with 87.5 percent and a growth rate 10.3 percent per year, followed by Apple's iOS with 12.1 percent and a per year decrease in market share of 5.2 percent, while other operating systems amount to just 0.3 percent. Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing sectors. Other specialized classes of operating systems, such as embedded and real-time systems, exist for many applications.

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