Sunday, May 1, 2011

Basic and Specialized Software Application

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Graphical User Interface, and is pronounced "gooey."

It refers to the graphical interface of a computer that allows users to click and drag objects with a mouse instead of entering text at a command line.

GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices.

Two of the most popular operating systems, Windows and the Mac OS, are GUI-based


World Processor

A Word Processor is a computer application used for the production if any sort of printable material.

Application used for the production included composition, editing, formatting and possibly printing.

Word processor may also refer to a type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated processor (like a computer processor) for the editing of text.

 Word processors are descended from early text formatting tools. ( sometimes called text justification toolds, from their only real capability.


Spredsheet

A Spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information.

A table of values arranged in rows and columns. Each value can have a predefined relationship to the other values.

Spreadsheets are largely used for accounting purposes.

Each cell contains alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas.

A formula defines how the content of that cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell or combination of cells each time any cell is updated.



DBMS

DBMS standed for database management system.

DBMS is a computer program designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users.

Examples of DBMS use include accounting, human resources and customer support systems.

DBMS originally found only in large companies with the computer hardware needed to support large data sets.

DBMSs have more recently emerged as a fairly standard part of any company back office.

The term program is often used interchangeably with software and software application.



Utility Suites

Utility is a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics

The concept is also used in utility functions, social welfare, Pareto maximization, Edgeworth boxes and contract curves. It is a central concept of welfare economics.

Maximisation of utility as a moral criterion for the organisation of society

Utility of individuals, aiming for 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number'.

Utility theory assumes that humankind is rational.



Web Authoring

A Website development system that allows Web pages to be visually created like a desktop publishing program.

 It generates the required HTML code for the pages and is able to switch back and forth between the page layout and the HTML.

The software is judged by its GUI tools used for designing the page at high level.

The clarity easily people can modify and maintain the site at a low level.


Audio Editing Software

Audio editing is the process of taking recorded sound and changing it directly on the recording medium. 


All programs should include play, record, cut, copy, paste and so on. This rating goes beyond the basic editing tools to include tools such as equalizers, processors, mixers, present effects, filters as well as analyzing tools like the waveform or spectrogram.


Audio editing was a new technology that developed in the middle part of the 20 century with the advent of magnetic tape recording.


Audio editors would listen to recorded tapes at low volumes, and then located specific sounds using a process called scrubbing, which is the slow rocking back and forth of the tape reels across the playback heads of the tape deck.


Bitmap Image

A bitmap is a type of graphic composed of pixels (picture element) in a grid.

Each pixel or "bit" contains color information for the image.

Bitmap graphics formats have a fixed resolution which means that resizing a bitmap graphic can result in distortion and jagged edges.

Some common bitmap formats are GIF, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PICT, PCX, and BMP.

Photo-editors or image-editing graphocs software such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint are designed for creating and editing bitmap graphics.


Desktop Publishing Program

Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed material for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and the like using a personal computer.

 Desktop publishers use programs like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress to create page layouts for documents they want to print.

Complete desktop publishing involves the combination of typesetting, graphic design, page layout (how it all fits on the page), and printing the document.

Publishers may also use programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create printable images.
Word processing programs like Microsoft Word can be used for basic desktop publishing purposes.



HTML Editor

HTML editor also called an authoring tool, an HTML editor is a software program that inserts HTML code as you create a HTML file.

Some editors will provide a word processing GUI enabling users to create HTML documents without knowing any HTML code.


Image Editor

Image Editor is software that allows images to be edited and also converted to different graphic formats.

Image editors typically deal with only bitmapped images such as GIFs, JPEGs and BMPs.

However, some editors support both bitmaps and illustrations.

Common functions are manually cropping and resizing the image and using " filters" to adjust brightness, contrast and colors.

Numerous filters can be used for special effects. A myriad of filters are available for specia effects. Red eye removal is included in editors specialized for photos.


 Multimedia

Multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media. This includes text, graphics, audio, video.

Educational software that involves animations, sound, and text is called " multimedia software.

Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance.

Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art, by including audio.

Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application.




Vector Image

Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.

Vector is a representation of both a quantity and a direction at the same time. In vector images, the file that results from a graphic artist's work is created and saved as a sequence of vector statements.

There are instances when working with vector tools and formats is the best practice, and instances when working with raster tools and formats is the best practice. There are times when both formats come together.

 An understanding of the advantages and limitations of each technology and the relationship between them is most likely to result in efficient and effective use of tools.






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