typing-Vocab 8
Terms
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- Media Player
- a Windows utility program that allows the user to play sound and video files
- multimedia
- the use of graphics, sound, video in a single document, such as a web page
- database
- a computer application designed to store fields of information that can then be manipulated in many ways, a user might create a database with names, addresses & phone #, and then used to create mailing lists, & labels, etc
- BMP
- bitmap, the extension for bitmap graphics, a bitmap is created using pixels & is considered a paint document
- AU
- Audio, a sound file similar to .wav
- rip
- the process of copying a song from a CD in order to transfer it to a computer or another device, to rip a CD is to convert all the music on the disc to an MP3 format
- C++
- a computer language often used to write applications
- record
- a complete set of single entries into a database field, for example, a record listing client info might include an entry into the fields for name, address & phone #
- GIF
- Graphic Interchange Format, the extension for a graphic file that is often used for line drawings requiring few colors, are viewable using internet browsers
- Photoshop
- an Adobe application that allows a user to create & modify graphics
- PCX
- Paintbrush, the extension for a bitmap graphic created using Paint, a Windows utility program
- AIFF
- Audio Interchange File Format, a sound file often used on Macintosh computers, can be quite large, so other formats are used more often
- JPEG or JPG
- Joint Photographic Experts Group, an extension indicating a graphic file that works best with photographs using many colors, a kind of graphic that can be viewed on a web page
- RA
- Real Audio, the extension for a sound file that can only be heard using Real Augio, a sound program downloaded from the internet
- animated GIF
- a type of moving graphic used on web pages, if an arrow on a web page changes colors, shapes, or sizes, it is often animated GIF