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- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition is software that converts text scanned as a graphic into text a word processing program can use.
- Client Server
- The data processing interaction in which a program at one site (the client) sends a request to a program at another site (the server) and awaits a response. Horizon uses this method.
- Icons
- pictorial representations of programs.
- Document Management Software
- allows people to convert a document from one form to another. This second form accepts files created in any applications and allows multiple users to view it without having to have the original program.
- Directory (Folder)
- A website can be thought of a collection of files that are viewed using a web browser. These files can be grouped for structural or administrative purposes into folders; directory = folder.
- OS
- The Operating System is the program(s) that manages the operations of a computer. It works with the user, the software, and the hardware. Windows is the most common operating system today.
- Ghosting
- When an image is left on the screen for a long period of time, and is burned into the screen permanently.
- Windows
- is the most common operating system today.
- Bandwidth
- is the capacity of the communications link
- Font
- A font is the overall design for a set of characters. It describes the size, weight, and spacing of a character.
- DVD-ROM
- DVD- Read Only Material (It cannot be changed)
- Horizontal Software
- Software that is created for large markets. (Memos, reports... Chicken farmers to bankers)
- Encryption
- The process of encoding electronic transaction information, to allow secure transmission of data over the Internet. Scrambling.
- Modem
- A device for converting digital information from computers to analog information so that the information can be sent across telephone lines.
- Electronic Software Distribution
- When you download software.
- Analytic Graphics
- allow you to create pictorial presentation of numbers. Your spreadsheet software allows you to create a large variety of graphics. The three most commonly used ones are the bar, line, and pie charts, with bar charts being the most popular.
- Disk Cache
- Storage device. (Magnetic disk storage)
- Copyrighted Software
- s sold under the same rules as any work of art. The user buys the right to use a copy of the software.
- Network
- A collection of terminals, computers, and other equipment that use communication channels to share data.
- Peer-To-Peer Network
- has all computers the same level. No one computer is more powerful than the others. Files and programs can be shared.
- DTP
- r Desk Top Publishing differs from word processing in that when you use a desk top publishing program, you have the ability to move objects, increase or decrease the size of graphic objects, rotate text and graphics objects, and flow text around irregularly shaped objects.
- Defragmenting
- which reorganizes the hard drive.
- Cross Platform
- A system created for applications. It can be used for personal computer, minis, or mainframes.
- Compression
- is used to make the size of files smaller because you want to attach them to an email, upload them to a server, or backup you computer. (Winzip)