Monday, December 15, 2008

week 17 half way point

MONDAY
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format Large file size. No compression

TUESDAY
encryption
The jumbling or coding of sensitive data to make it unreadable

WEDNESDAY
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format - A file type that preserves transparency

THURSDAY
Anti-Aliased
Eliminates jaggedness on curved image

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

week 16

MONDAY
Bug
This is a mistake in a program that the makers of the program didn't notice before they sold it.

TUESDAY
Patch
A little program that fixes bugs in computer programs.

WEDNESDAY
Crack
A small program intended to defeat software's copy protection.

THURSDAY
Virus
A program that someone has made on purpose to try and break computers.

Monday, December 1, 2008

week 15

MONDAY

Cache A temporary storage area for frequently or recently used information from a web site.

TUESDAY
Browser A program for looking at the internet. Microsoft Internet Explorer is a browser.

WEDNESDAY
Hyperlink are the words or phrases that you click in webpage’s to go to another page.

THURSDAY
bps (Bits Per Second) A measure of how quickly information is being transferred via your modem.

Monday, November 24, 2008

thanksgiving ya and week 14

k short list since thanksgiving

MONDAY

Firewall A firewall prevents computers on a network from communicating directly with external computer systems

TUESDAY

IP address (Internet protocol address)A unique string of numbers that identifies a computer on the Internet.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

little late but here week13

MONDAY
Market – potential buyers who have the ability to purchase

TUESDAY
Target Market – A group of consumers at which a company direct its marketing activities.


WEDNESDAY
Green Marketing – Providing packaging and products friendly to the environment and using this fact as a selling point.

THURSDAY
Commodities – are goods traded in the market place.

Additional Related Words To Know. (review)
Middleman – any person or company that is in the distribution channel.

Subsidiary – A business owned by another company.

Monday, November 10, 2008

12 week words

MONDAY

Circuit Board – Flat, rigid board inside a computer used to hold and electronically connect computer chips and other elements

TUESDAY

Format – Set up disk to be able to save data

WEDNESDAY
Write Enabled Notch – Small rectangular cut out in the edge of a floppy disk to protect disk information

THURSDAY Defrag - To reorder a disk so that all information is saved in one contiguous cluster

Monday, November 3, 2008

week 11

MONDAY

Resolution independent – property of vector graphics which refers to the fact that they can be reduced or enlarged
without any loss of quality.

TUESDAY
Bitmap Image (bmp) A graphic image stored as a specific arrangement of screen dots, or pixels.

WEDNESDAY
Bleed or Bleeding Edge - When a page or a cover design extends to and off the edge of the paper.
-Additional Reading In print design, the artwork or block of color must extend off the edge of the page. The artwork or block of color is then printed on larger-size paper. Then the printed page is trimmed to the desired size.

THURSDAY
Color Cast Changes the hue (color) of a selected part of an image while keeping the saturation and brightness intact.
-Additional Reading Viewing an image with a color cast can be similar to viewing it through colored lenses on eyeglasses. A commonly known color cast (in graphic design) is a duotone.

Monday, October 27, 2008

week 10

MONDAY
Byte a unit of storage capable of holding a single character., a byte is equal to 8 bits.

TUESDAY Kilobyte 1,024 bytes. abbreviated as K or Kb.

Additional Reading Info:
In a decimal systems, kilo stands for 1,000, but in binary systems, a kilo is 1,024 (2 to the 10th power).

WEDNESDAY
Megabyte – 1,048,576 bytes. abbreviated as M or MB.


THURSDAY
Gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes. abbreviated as G or GB..

Monday, October 20, 2008

week 9

MONDAY
LAN Local Area Network – computers connected in a building or group of buildings. Most LANs connect workstations and devices, such as laser printers, as well as data.

TUESDAY

FTP – File Transfer Protocol – Used in uploading websites or files

WEDNESDAY
WAN Wide Area Network A computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area connected through public networks, such as the telephone. Typically, a WAN consists of two or more local-area networks (LANs). The largest WAN in existence is the Internet.


THURSDAY
Topology : The geometric arrangement of a computer system. Common topologies include a bus, star, and ring.

EXAMPLES

Thursday, October 16, 2008

words so far

Hardware - Electrical and mechanical parts of a computer

Modem - A device that allows computers to communicate via phone lines or cables lines

Platform - Operating system that runs programs (Mac, Linux, and Windows)

ISP – Internet Service Provider Ex.[Roadrun

histogram-illustrates how pixels in an image are distributed by graphing the number of pixels at each color intensity level.
Additional Reading
Extra This can show you whether the image contains enough detail in the shadows (shown in the left part of the histogram), midtones (shown in the middle), and highlights (shown in the right part) to make a good correction

vaporware-sarcastic term used to for software and hardware products that have been announced and advertised but are not yet available

Microcomputer-A personal computer that contains a central processing unit (CPU), a memory system, all housed in a motherboard.

Minicomputer -A midsized computer that is a multiprocessing system capable of supporting from 4 to about 200 users simultaneously.
ner- Net Zero, SBC]

CRT – Cathode Ray Tube -Tube used in TV’s & computer monitors to display the output of video signal or computer line info. Uses RGB.

LCD – Liquid Crystal Display- Low power display contains a liquid crystal solution between 2 sheets of polarizing material.

Plasma Display-A type of flat-panel display that works by sandwiching a gas mixture between two sealed glass plates
Additional reading –Don’t need to write this down
The plates are sealed so that the electrodes form right angles, creating pixels. When a voltage pulse passes between two electrodes, the gas breaks down and produces weakly ionized plasma, which emits UV radiation.

VGA-Video Graphics Array, a graphics display system for PCs developed by IBM.

PDF -portable document format. Created by Adobe. Document can be viewed even if your system lacks the fonts used in the document. Uses Acrobat Reader


Interpolation- is an imaging method for increasing the size of a digital image by repeating existing data with a mix of faked data to enlarge the image.

dpi- ……dots per inch used to describe the resolution a monitor, printer or scanner. Printing = 300dpi & display on monitors = 72dpi.

Resampling- Sizing an image upward or downward, & letting the software add pixel data (upsampling) or cut pixels data of the image (downsampling).

RGB – red – green – blue Primary colors when using light (Additive colors) Ex. monitor

CMYK - Cyan - Magenta – Yellow – Black (Subtractive Colors) Professional Printing

GAMUT - full range of color that can be displayed or printed

WYSIWYG -What You See Is What You Get - the screen is exactly what will appear when printed

visual arts - art forms that are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.

Cloning – duplicating pixels from one part of an image to another

Port – place on the computer where you plug something in.

CPU - Central Processing Unit “the brains of the computer”

Clip art – collection of predrawn and digitized graphics

GIF – graphic interchange format. Supports transparencies and animation.

JAVA - platform independent program language used to create applets.

Raster Image - picture created in a rectangular array of bitmaps