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| device that performs the information-processing cycle |
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| information processing cycle |
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| consists of four basic operations: input, processing, output, and storage |
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| group of associated components that work togerhet and divided into two main groups: hardware and software |
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| the physical parts of the computer and includes such components as the system unit, monitor, keyboard, and printer |
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| made up of all the programs that instruct the computer |
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| the programs that assist with the proper functioning of the computer |
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| the programss used to perform takss |
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| the 1st operation of the information-processing cycle, enables the computer to accept data |
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| refers to facts that are raw and unorganized |
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| how data is entered into the computer for processing such as keyboard and mouse |
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| the 2nd operation of the information-processing cycle; converts data into information |
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| refers to consolidated,organizd, processed data |
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| the central processing unit (CPU) |
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| processes data into information |
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| random access memory (RAM) |
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| temporarily storesprograms and data needed by the CPU |
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| the 3rd operation of teh information-processing cycle and requires outpout devices |
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| part of output, the 3rd operation of the information-processing cycele, these are monitors and printers to display results for people to see or hear |
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| the 4th operation of the informatin-processing cycle, holds programs, software, adn data that the computer system uses |
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| hard drives,CD and DVD drives, and media card readers that are used with USB drives and flash memory rads |
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| the high speed movement of data or information |
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| hardware component that moves data into and out of a computer |
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| connects 2 or more computers to share input/output devices and other resources through the use of a network interface card |
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| computers for individuals |
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| notmally designed for one users at a time |
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| computers for organizations |
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| designed to be used by many people at the same time |
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| generally either Mac (apple's Macintosh) syttems or IBM compatible systems |
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| designed for home or office desk use, now include all in one computers |
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| combine teh system unit and the monitor |
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| small enough for easy computer mobility |
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| run full desktop operating systems but have fewer componenets than notebooks, weigh less and are smaller |
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| can be used to input date with a keyboard or mouse and the user can write on the monitor with a special pen or stylus |
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| small inexpensive noteboooks designed primarily for wireless Web browsing and email |
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| combine the capabilities of handheld computers such as PDAs and monbile phones |
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| professional workstations |
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| intended for technical applications that need powerful processing and output |
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| enable users connected to a computer network to have accessto the network's programs, hardware, and data |
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| include the user computers connneected to the network |
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| the use of client computers with centralized servers |
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| minicomputers or midrandge servers |
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| designed to meet the needs of smaller companies or businesses |
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| carry out very large processing jobs to meet the needs of large companies or agencies of the government |
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| able to perform exremely high-pspeed processing and show underlying patterns |
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| online applications such as google docs encourgae colarboations |
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| allows anyone to contribute or modify content of a collectin of web pages |
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| social interatction are types of wikis |
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| when using your computer harddrive |
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| dont plug too many devicesinto electiral outlets, use surge protectoors, place hardware where it cant fall or be damaged, proovide adequate space for air circulation arund hardware, securely fasten computer cables, cords,and wires |
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| sortware programs contain |
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| flaws. erros cause programs to run slowly or miscalculate, these bugs are almost impossible to eliminate completely |
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| deals with moral dilemmas relating to computer usage; unethical behavior includes sending viruses, stealing cc infoo, computer stalking, and installing illegitimate copies of software on computers |
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| disableed and disadvangtags people with added support and oppritunities |
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| allows students to learn without requiring them to be at a specific location at a specific time |
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| who are computer proficient are in high demand |
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| the replacement of people by machines adn computers |
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| computer technology has aided |
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| globilization and the resulting outsourcing of jobs as well as structural unemployment- the obsolescence of certain jobs |
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| be a responsible computer user |
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| understand how one's computer use affects others; obey laws and confrom to requests regarding use of cell phones; be aware of e-waste and the proper disposal of outdated computer hardware |
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| advances in computer technology; upgrade softeare to obtain the latest softeare features; stay informaed to help avoid computer viruses |
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| ability to understand how to use a computer effectively |
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| skills of computer literacy |
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| ability to create, formati, save, open and print documents; familarity with email programs, ability to keep track of petty cash or phone logs in a speadsheet, understand the uses of databaes and the basics of a table query, report, and form; familiarity with presentaion software; ability to conduct web searches; basic photo-editing skills; ability to create or edit a basic web page |
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| compuer literacy in job searcing |
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| career assessments, salary surveys, jobs postings, email reumes and other requested documetsn |
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| popular inerenet IT job search sites |
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| dice.come; careerbuilder.com; code-jobs.com; computerjobs.com; computerwork.com |
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| conducted via webcam and the internet. benefits are save time and moey, ability to take the interview for other screensers, accommoodates different time ones or accessibility |
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| inddivudlal working with all ofmrs of IT and functions, demand for skilled IT professionals will continue to grow; |
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| previous declines in the IT field blamed on |
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| outsourcing and labor dumpping |
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| where one company contracts with another company to have services performed that could have been done by employees |
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| flooding the labor market with foreign workers |
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| predicted to show the most growth: software engineering, network systems anaysis, data communication |
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| other IT jobs for teh future |
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| computer support, system admin, system anaalysis, database admin, security support |
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| Information Systems (IS) Department |
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| functional area within a company or universiy responsible for managing information technology and systems |
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| software development firm |
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| transfer of larbor from workers i one country to workers iin another; job categoriesaffected- calle centers and computer programming, some US companies question cost saving because of communication and cultureal iconsistencies |
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computer science (CS
managgement information systems (MIS)
systems and software engineering
electrical enginneering (EE) |
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| study of storage, change, and transfer of information; programs focus on programming languages and mathmatics; requires theoretical and analytical skills |
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| managment information systems (MIS) |
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| focuses on proactical applications of information systms and technoology; important knowlegede areas: finance adn marketing; requires good communication and interpersoal skills |
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| uses interdisciplinary approach- people,organization, technologies, requires strong project managment skills |
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| involves upgrading, managing, andmodifying computer progams requires string interpersonal skills, programming skills, busness skiiilslls, system anaylsis skills |
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| electrivcal engineering (EE) |
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| focuses on cutting edge communitoin and circuit desgin; key areas of interst- hardware design, robotics, solid-state, mobile, and emedded technology, integrated circutis, computer chips |
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| traingin seminars, web conference, web conferances, webinars, online workshops, computer magazines, newspapers, journals, computer career-related Web sites, conferences and trade shows, professinoal organziations and professional associations |
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| It careers constanly change |
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| changes in technology and changes in business |
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| empoyers want employess with |
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| business skills hard and soft and technical knowldege |
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| people related communication, analytical.research, teamwork, project management, buisness acumen |
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| personal values and attributes |
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| honesty, integrit, morality, dideicated, hardworking, tenacious, dependable, reliable, professinal, self conident, self motivated |
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| process related like networking and web development |
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| networking, microsoft products, linux, TCP/IP, Oracle, AJAX, Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP systems) |
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| combines computers and medical expertise t simulate a long-distance house call |
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| expansion of telemedicine that xtends services to the preventive side of medice |
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| skills and knowldege assessment process; organized by computer industry vendors and profesional associations, beefits include provides benchark to assess skills, may lead to higher salary offers, helps match applicatns skill set with emploer job requirements |
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| certicfication risks of employee |
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| narrow scope of information may be emphasized, much time adn work dedicated to vendor- spefici technology that may change or may be less valuale in the future |
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| certification riisks of employers |
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| employeee may have narrow training, knowledge only in one area |
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| application software: tools for productivity |
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| prouctiviet, media and grappgic, internet based, home and educational |
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| word processsing, spreadsheet, database, Presentation, project mangement, personal information managment |
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| desktop publishing/multimedia authroing, image animation creation and editing, 3d redering, audio editing, video editing |
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| email, web browsers, internet messaging, video conferencing and IP telephony, web hosted applications, spyware, adware, pop-ups |
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| peronal finance, tax preperation, home desgin and landscape deisgn, computer assisted tutorials, computer assisted refrencing (eg enclopedias), and games |
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| anyprograms that gives teh user the ability to complete work on teh computer |
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| general - purpose applications |
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| enable users to complet common tasks examples word processing spread sheet programs |
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| general purpose application software |
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| productivity programs, media and graphic software, interet based software, home and education programs |
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| make it easier to do work examples: word-processing software, spreadsheet or database software, prsentation softear, project management software, personal information managmement oftware |
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| office button changed to file tab on ribbon, alllows customization of the ribbon, live preview for the paste clipboard, option to capture and insert secreen shots, enhanced multimedia editing, like vidoe cutting, remvoing backgrounds, recording a slide show as a video, Offce web aplications like ree online companions to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, and real time buddy list identifies who is currently editing a document and stronger security settings for working on collaborative projects |
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| features interfaces similar to microsoft's windows operating systems like application windon, application workspace, document, title bar, window control buttons to minimize, restore down, maximize adn close, window border, status bar adn scrooll arrows, ribbon, tab and contextual tab, group quick access toolbar |
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| auto text wrapping, find adn replace utility, ability to cut, copy and paste text images secreen captues wi document and between documents and progrgams, editing and formatting tools insert heasers, footers, page breaks, page numbers, and dates, embed pics grapics, charts, tables, footnotes, endnotes adn more,add tables columns, tabs buletd or numbered lists, theme feature provides precreatedcolor schemes and font selections, live preview options, portrait or landscarpe orientation print options |
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| leading spreadsheet program for business adn personal use, stores and manipulates numbers, modeling/what-if analysiss-prediction of things tha might happend, each file is a workbook holding worksheet with columns, rows and cells peadshheet entries and features like labels, formulas, mathematical formulas, functions, arguement set, charts, splarklines |
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| database managment system desigend to store related data in tables, create relationships, generate forms, queries, and reports. features of access include tabel, data set, form, filter, query, report |
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| popular program used to creat adn deliever presentations, powerpoint presentations features slide/outline pane, notes ane, view buttons, slide plaane, includes professionally designed templates, slide transitions, placeholder and image animation options, animation painter, ability to insert a video, and convert presentation into a WMV video file |
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| useful for the managment of one or more projects that can vary in complexity. features include visually enhanced timline emphasizes due ate and deadlines, team-planning capability, portfolio manager monitos allocation of scarce resources adn current project costs |
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| personal info mangaement system, features include email, conversation grouing, ignoring conversations, think before you send featue, calendar with alarms |
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| refers to the technology used in presenting informatin including: pictues sound, video |
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| enable users to incorporate more than one type of technology |
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| multimedia and graphics software programs |
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| professional desktop publishing, multimedia authoring, paint, drawing adn animation, image editing, 3d rendering such as CAD, audiio, video edting |
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| compression and decompression includes |
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| codecs, losslesss compression, lossy compression, and audio video interleave (AVI) |
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| algorithms that reduce filesize and allow faster internet trasfer sppeds |
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| does not delete info needed to reproduce the imae withougt flaws |
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| removes some onfo but the loss is typically not noticalbe |
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| audio video interleave (AVI) |
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| microsoft-created specification for packaging audio and video data into a file |
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| desktop publishing programs |
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| used to create newslettes, product catalogs, advertising brochures, and other documents requiring unusal desgin and layout normal word procesors do no provide |
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| create bitmapped images (raster graphics) made up of tiny dots known as pixels; paint programs standard file formats GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP,TIF |
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| graphics interchange formatt (GIF) |
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| lossless compression of simple images, often used for web pages |
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| Joint photographic experts group (JPEG) |
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| lossy compression of complex images and also used for web pags |
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| portable network graphics (PNG) |
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| patent free alternative to a GIF, lossless compresssion, suitable for Web use only |
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| compression optional, files tend to be large |
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| Tag Image File Formatt (TIFF) |
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| includes descriptive information with theimage, used in publishing |
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| create vector graphics that can be edited and resided without distortion |
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| provide graphic objects with three dimensional effectis |
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| manipulates variations in color inensity that would be produced by lightfalling on an object from multiple directions |
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| Comptuer Aided Design (CAD) |
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| 3d rndering programs used by engineers and scienctist |
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| advanced types of paint programs, can chagne complicated bitmapped objects, including photographs , can edit but not create bitmapped image |
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| give the ability to create animation from images and run the animation |
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| used to capture and process sound used in multimedia presentations |
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| standard sund file formatts |
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| MP#, Windows Media Audio (WMA), WAV, OGGVorbis, Musical instrument Digtial Interface (MIDI) |
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| enable the users to modify digitized videos, save in at least one of these formats: moving picture Expert Groups (MPEG), Quicktime, Video for indows |
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| multimedia authoring systems |
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| used to create multimedia presentations, require alarge amoun of disk space and memory to run properly |
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| Web page authoring progams |
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| professional developement tools that have greater scope to creat Web pages: Dreamerweaver, Flash, FIreworks |
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| share files and collaorate: Windows Office LIve, Goodgle Docs; help avoid file icompatibilty |
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| undesirable internet software |
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spyware- monitors your activity
pop-up- small window that appeasrs in the current browser window
adware- targets products to your interests |
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| home and educationsal programs |
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| personal finance and tax prep software, home disgin and landscaping software, computerized referace software like Multimedia dictionaries, encyclopedias, how -t guids, and computer gamses |
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toal sales up to 68.4 billion by 2012, started in 1970's, multiplayer online gaming-players interacet with charcters controlled by other players
MUDs= multiuser dungeons or dimensions
gMUDs = graphical MUDs
MMORPGs= massively multiplayer online role-playinggames |
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| gamers spend an average 18 hours per week playing games, two of every five gamesrs are female, members of 65% of US households palay video games, age of average gamer is 32 |
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| software designed for specific businesses or users, often cost more than general purpose applications becasue of their development costs |
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| custom versus packages software |
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custom software: developed for a user's specific neds, necessary when an application is not available
pakages software: developed for the massmarket |
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fully self contained program
advanages: purchased and installed sseparately, function b themselves
disadvantages: take a lot of storage pace, do no share resources |
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single program that combines the most commonly used fuctins of many productivity software programs exaple: icrosoft works
modules (functions) share teh same interface
lacks features |
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| software suite (office suite) |
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| bundle of standalone progarams like word processing, spreadsheet, presentations graphics, database, personal info, chare common code, drivesrs, and graphic libraries |
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| outline the minimal level of resources that a program requires |
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| relaeases of programs are cited by a year or version number |
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| in a version number a deciaml number indicates a maintenance release |
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| time limited trial version |
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| offeredfor commerical programsby software companies |
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sometimes available to users
software is in the final testing stages an may contain bugs
access is free |
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how software is kept current
small fixes to software are called patches,
large or major fixes to software are called service packs or sevice relases
software can be distributed through the internet and/or purchased in stores |
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in print or downloaded from the internet
brief tutorials, read me files, help files |
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| permits the user to install the program on one computer |
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| tight to install copeies of programs on a precised number of computers |
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| providing a special code or product key befire using it |
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software that must be purchased
may have a trial period, xamples: microsoft office, adobe acrobat, apple ilife |
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| you may try before purchasing |
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| free to users as long as users do not sell it to otehrs |
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| copyright-free software, users can modify or sell |
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| internal proces prohibits making unauthorized copies |
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| moving the software to the hard disk and properly configuring the software |
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| takes the program off teh hard disk |
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| moves it from teh hard disk to memory |
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| can be chosen to identify program is run |
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| software settings used by the program unless overriden by theuser |
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| automatically saves the user's work at spcficed intervals |
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| quitting or closing down an application |
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