Search Engine A web site that enables you to find the address of another site by typing in keywords. This is a computer that handles encrypted data for secure transactions. For example, when you subscribe to Internet Advisor from your web site, you are then connected to a secure server so that your credit card details cannot be read by anyone else. Shareware Computer programmes that are available, usually without cost, on a trial basis. After a specified time period the author requests payment if you continue to use the programme.
Some programmes even come with a time limit, at which point they cease to function.
This is a great way to try out programmes, but if you use the programmes please register and pay for them. This helps to guarantee the continued existence of these types of programmes. These can be commercial, educational, or personal and range in size from a few pages - to dozens of pages. A software system used for connecting a serial line directly to the Internet. Spam The electronic version of junk mail.