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  • What is Animation What is ADSL2/2+? ADSL2/2+ is the next generation of ADSL broadband. It still runs on your copper wire and depending on your equipment and the length of the copper wire from the exchange, ADSL2/2+ can potentially give you up to 200 times faster than dial-up. The following factors can determine the speed you will achieve
  • Length of the copper wire from the exchange
  • The number of, and type of, other services being used over copper pairs in the same cable by other customers
  • The configuration and line quality of the copper wire pair between the exchange and the customer’s premises
  • Electrical interference from outside sources (such as electric motors)
  • The configuration of the copper wiring within the customer’s premises
  • The software configuration and application on the customer’s computer (in particular how it uses the uplink back to the exchange)
  • The customer’s hardware or modem
  • The capacity of, load on, and access data rate of the destination host computer, which the customer is accessing.
  • AOL - Internet Access Portal
  • AVI - File format for video files. Video compression technology developed by Microsoft. Audio/Video Interleaved - a common video file format (.avi). Video quality can be very good at smaller resolutions, but files tend to be rather large
  • Adobe - A multinational software company that owns a large range of significant and popular software that have become the Industry Standard for digital mediaApple - Now a multinational computer and media platform company that produces a range of hardware and software generally used in the creative digitalmedia industry
  • Analogue - Using hands to show the time, not LCD display. Analogue is everything before digital. Vinyl records, tape cassettes, music stereos, the telephone etc; these all use analogue signals to convey information. The radio frequency is an example of an analogue signal.
  • Active Server Pages - Active Server Page is a server-side scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side scripts that are processed by a Web server before being sent to the user’s browser
  • Alt Tag - Alt tag refers to the text that is associated with an image. This originated from when web browsers were not universally available as “Graphical Browsers” so the “Alt text” was a description used to describe the image.
  • Bluray - A kind of optical disk (CD). These are of a high density, and are read on a different wave length to a standard CD or DVD, thus allowing them a much higher storage capacity, perfect for HD movies. Blue Ray gets its name from the blue laser needed to read them.
  • Blackberry - A wireless communications solution that provides email, phone, corporate data, internet, messaging and organiser features from the one handheld uni BlueTooth - Bluetooth is a technical industry standard that facilitates communication between wireless devices such as mobile phones, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and handheld computers, and wireless enabled laptop or desktop computers and peripherals
  • Blog -Short for “Web log,” a specialized site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running log of events and personal insights with online audiences. Blogs with political or current-events themes have grown in popularity and become “soap boxes” for instant mass-audience commentary.
  • Broadband - The term applied to networks having bandwidths significantly greater than that found in telephony networks. Broadband systems are capable of carrying a large number of moving images or a vast quantity of data simultaneously. Broadband comes from the words “broad bandwidth” and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link between an end user and access network suppliers capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video applications.
  • Bandwidth - Denotes the width of the frequency band used to transmit data. The broader the bandwidth, the faster the connection. And controls the amount of data that can be transmitted via a given communications channel (eg, between a hard drive and the host PC) in a given unit of time.
  • Bitmap - is an image made up of dots, or pixels. Refers to a raster image, in which the image consists of rows or pixels rather than vector coordinates. There are many bitmapped file formats, .bmp, .pcx, .pict, .pict-2, tiff, .tif, .gifBracket <HTML>
  • Browser - Software that allows you to “surf ” the Internet. Netscape, Mosaic, and Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. A browser provides an easy to use interface for accessing the information on the World Wide Web.
  • Convergence Convergence is the principle that the various public media, such as radio, TV,the print media, CD players/stereos, video recorders, telephones and the Internet, are all coming together to form one information channel. …
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  • Connectivity - The ability to use an electronic network to send and receive information between any locations, devices or business services. Connectivity is the ability to ‘connect’. Connecting to the wider network of society involves the negotiation of many barriers. It involves social issues such as the digital divide. But connectivity also implies other technical factors such as the compatibility of computer systems, network connections and having the correct software.
  • CD - Compact Disc (CD). High density storage media based on a 4.75″ reflective optical disc. Can hold up to 650,000,000 bytes of data, that is equivalent to 12,000 images or 200,000 pages of text. CDs may all look the same, but there are numerous standards for different applications. The most common are defined below.
  • Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I). Interactive multimedia platform developed for the consumer market by Philips. It is a proprietary version of the CD-ROM that delivers data, text, audio, stills, and video.
  • Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM). Version of the CD that allows the information to be stored and retrieved. Once a CD-ROM is pressed, new data cannot be stored and the disc cannot be erased for reuse. Although CD-ROMs look like music discs, they can only be used with a computer equipped with a CD-ROM drive.
  • Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R). CD-ROM recording systems can be used to record data onto a compact disc-recordable like any other recordable media. However, they cannot be erased and re-recorded. For large-scale duplication of CD-ROMs, a pressing facility is preferred.
  • Codecs - A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. The word codec may be a combination of any of the following: ‘Compressor-Decompressor’, ‘Coder-Decoder’, or ‘Compression/Decompression algorithm’. Any type of format used to compress a file to a smaller size. MP3 and WMA are examples of Codecs.
  • CATV lines - Community Antenna Television or Cable TV system. Can be all coaxial or HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coax) based. A transmission system that distributes broadcast television signals and other services by means of a coaxial cable. A TV system that uses cables rather than antennas for the transmission of TV programs.
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet, a feature of HTML developed by the W3C. With Cascading Style sheets, both web designers and end users can create style templates (sheet) that specifies how different text elements (paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, etc.) appear on a web page. Currently, not all browsers express CSS formatting in the same manner. A Cascading Style Sheet allows you to put all your page styles (colors, fonts, layout, etc.) into one external file, rather than manually formatting each individual page and clogging the HTML code with hundreds of lines of excess coding.
  • Content Writer/editor - Writers and editors produce a wide variety of written materials delivered to an audience in an increasing number of ways. They develop content using any number of multimedia formats for readers, listeners, or viewers. Although many people write as part of their primary job, or on on-line chats or blogs, only writers and editors who are paid for their work are included in this occupation.
  • CMYK (Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black) Stands for the colors Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black. In print design, colors are defined as a percentage of each of these 4 colors. For example, the CMYK abbreviation for the color black would be 0-0-0-100. In contrast, display devices (i.e. computer monitors) typically define colors using RGB.
  • Computer Operating Systems An operating system (OS) is the main program on a computer. It performs a variety of functions, including
  • determining what types of software you can install
  • coordinating the applications running on the computer at any given time
  • making sure that individual pieces of hardware, such as printers, keyboards, and disk drives, all communicate properly
  • allowing applications such as word processors, email clients, and web browsers to perform tasks on the system (e.g., drawing windows on the screen, opening files, communicating on a network) and utilize other system resources (e.g., printers, disk drives)
  • reporting error messages
  • The OS also determines how you see information and perform tasks. Some operating systems use a graphical user interface (GUI), which presents information through pictures (icons, buttons, dialog boxes, etc.) as well as words. Other operating systems can rely solely on text.
  • Calibration – Monitor / Printer - The method of adjusting scanners, printers and displays to a defined standard to represent color accurately. Color calibration is necessary for accurate WYSIWYG color management.
  • Desktop Your computer’s desktop is much like a physical desktop. You probably keep a number of commonly used items on your desk such as pens, papers, folders, and other items. Your computer’s desktop serves the same purpose — to give you easy access to items on your hard drive. … a computer display area that represents the kinds of objects one might find on a real desktop: documents, phonebook, telephone, etc., and can be contained in a window or “full-screen”. The screen you see when you turn your computer on. It contains icons you can click to enter programs or open files. At the lower edge of the screen is the taskbar which shows frequently used programs as well as those programs already opened. digitized Able to be viewed and reproduced online. Default default, in computer science, refers to a setting or value automatically assigned to a computer program or device, outside of user intervention. Such settings are also called presets, especially for electronic devices.
  • DVD Officially known as the Digital Video Disc, though marketers unofficially refer to it as the Digital Versatile Disc. DVD uses a 5-inch disc with anywhere from 4.5 Gb (single layer, single-sided) to 17 Gb storage capacity (double-layer, double sided). It uses MPEG2 compression to encode 720:480p resolution, full-motion video and Dolby Digital to encode 5.1 channels of discrete audio. The disc can also contain PCM, DTS, and MPEG audio soundtracks and numerous other features. DVD-A: Digital Versatile Disc-Audio. Enhanced audio format with up to six channels of high-resolution, 24-bit/96-kHz audio encoded onto a DVD, usually using MLP lossless encoding. Requires a DVD-A player and a controller with 6-channel inputs (or a proprietary digital link) for full compatibility.DVD-R: A recordable DVD format similar to CD-R in that it is a write-once medium. Backed by Pioneer, Panasonic, Toshiba, and others.DVD-RW: A recordable DVD format similar to CD-RW in that it is re-recordable medium. Backed by Pioneer, Panasonic, Toshiba, and others.DVD+R: A recordable DVD format similar to CD-R in that it is a write-once medium. Backed by Sony, Philips, Yamaha, HP, and others.DVD+RW: A recordable DVD format similar to CD-RW in that it is re-recordable medium. Backed by Sony, Philips, Yamaha, HP, and others.DVD-RAM: A recordable DVD format similar to DVD-RW in that it is a re-writeable format. Unlike DVD-RW it is capable of being written to and erased over 100,000 times. Backed by Hitachi, Panasonic, Toshiba, and others.
  • Download - When you transfer information off a remote machine connected to the Internet onto your local machine, you are downloading data.
  • DomainName - Unique address identifying each site on the Internet, usually of two or more segments separated by full stops. Used in URLs to identify particular web pages or sites located on the Internet. For example, the domain name tafensw.edu.au represents the web site for the Tafe NSW.
  • DNS Server DNS stands for Domain Name Server. These are the servers that match up a fully qualified domain with the proper IP address. This is necessary because computers only understand the IP address for your domain (eg- 123.45.678.90). The Domain Name Server resolves the name of the Web site typed into the location field of the browser with the IP address of the server that will send the requested information from that Web site.
  • Digital Media - Digital media (as opposed to analog media) usually refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. Refers to any type of information in digital format including computer-generated text, graphics and animations, as well as photographs, animation.
  • Digital TV The digital transmission and processing of video signals provides a number of benefits over conventional analogue TV. These benefits include more TV channels, better picture quality and greater reliability. TV transmission standard which relays signals in a series of 0s and 1s (bits) allowing increased channel capacity in a given bandwidth.
  • Dreamweaver A Powerful WYSIWYG Web authoring tool developed by Adobe that allows Web developers to generate HTML and JavaScript source code while viewing the site as they work - it enables easy creation of sites containing graphics and multimedia elements.
  • DSL - A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies.
  • Database developer – a person who creates a collection of information stored in one central location. Many times, this is the source from which information is pulled to display products or information dynamically on a website.
  • Dynamically Generated Content part of the Web is driven by dynamically generated content. This content is primarily stored in databases, which is used by an application or middle layer to format the data to HTML. The web server then sends the content to the browser. The browser receives the web page as the end result and has no knowledge that the page was generated on the server — just that it is a properly formatted HTML file.
  • Encryption - Putting data into a secret code so it is unreadable except by authorized users. To convert data from its original form to a form that can only be read by someone that can reverse the encryption. The purpose of encryption is to prevent unauthorized reading of the data. Prevents any non-authorized party from reading or changing data. The level of protection provided by encryption is determined by an encryption algorithm.
  • email (Electronic mail) The exchange of electronic messages and computer files between computers that are connected to the Internet or some other computer network. The term electronic mail understandably shortened itself to E-mail, e-mail and now email as it became an everyday process. Email is a cheap, fast text message delivered electronically over the Internet.
  • Error 404 - This error message means Page Not Found (on a server). When a hyperlink is pointing to a location on the web that doesn’t exist, it is called a 404 error.
  • eCommerce Ecommerce is the conducting of commerce with goods and services over the Internet.
  • Editable Text Text and other text object components (including pictures and other attachments) that may be edited under digital software application. The two most important forms of editable text are rich text and global text.
  • Encoding A process which translates several signals of information simultaneously from an analog* or digital form to a coded form
  • Export - To save a file in a different format (that of another program). For example, many Adobe Photoshop files are exported to become GIF or JPEG files.

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