Terms

#DIG 315 Mislevy 2012

#Computer Terminology 15 pts

Identify these terms for class #2. You may use the web, friends, or your book to find the definitions. Submit them to moodle. We will review them in class.

1. Gif, jpeg and png Graphic Interchange Format. Joint Photographic Experts Group. Portable Network Graphics

2. banner Web site advertisement: a rectangular graphic across a Web page, used as an advertisement, heading, or link

3.Crop transitive verb cut something short: to cut something short,

4.Dpi vs ppi Dots per inch stands for the maximum number of tiny spots of ink that the printer can place in a straight line where the spots are theoretically small enough (i.e. ignoring spreading or smearing effects of ink on paper) that if placed in every other such dot position leaving white space between them, the spots can be individually distinguished.

Pixels per inch stands for the maximum number of unique positions in a straight line that the printer can place an ink spot under control from the outside world, namely from a computer connected to the printer.

5.pixilated pertaining to a printed image which has been digitized; visible as a pattern of pixels; also written pixellated

6. thumbnail Computer Science. A reduced image of a graphic or document page, used in order to view multiple images on a screen simultaneously or to download such images more rapidly.



7. bandwidth 1) the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second)

8.OCR usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten,

9. browser (give 2 examples) Safari or Explorer. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

10. search engines vs search directories Search engines and the directories are two different services available to the Web community. However, many people do not know the difference between them. Search engines have databases built up by "robots", which visit a websites and add information to their database. On the other hand, directories are human edited and build their indexes with editors who visit websites, and add to the directory the sites that they consider to be a valuable resource.

11.domain name and domain name extension A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Extensions are categories of Internet domain names.

12.Internet vs intranet The Internet is an open, public space, while an intranet is designed to be a private space


13. ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet

14. IP Address IP address lookup, location, proxy detection, email tracing, IP hiding tips, blacklist check, speed test, and forums.

15. hyperlink To follow a hypertext link to an electronic document or file.


16. hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.

17. HTML, XHTML, XML – what are these? is a family of
XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.

While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.

XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on May 31, 2001. XHTML5 is undergoing development as of September 2009, as part of the HTML5 specification.

18. ecommerce commonly known as e-commerce, ecommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

19. cookie (not the kind that goes with milk) a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.

20. plug-in (including examples) In computing, a plug-in (or plugin) is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used in web browsers to play video, scan for viruses, and display new file types.

21. pod cast A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of files (either audio or video) subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication.

22. ftp File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP -based network, such as the Internet.

23. URL In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource

24. Web 2.0/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that -- on the surface -- don't seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? I've heard it called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link it to such concepts as grid computing -- which is a way of taking many different computers and linking them together to form one very big computer.

25. World wide web vs website vs webpage The World Wide Web (or the proper World ... Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a web browser

26. USB USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.

27. Flash drive/jump drive USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.



28. PDF Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.

29.Social media Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue.