COSC Ch. 5

Programs used by many people to accomplish frequently performed tasks.

Helps people work more efficiently and effectively on both business related and personal documents

• Word processing
• Spreadsheet
• Database
• Presentation
• Project Mangement
• Personal Information Management

• Dektop Publishing
• Image Animation Creation and editing
• 3D rendering
• Audio editing
• Video Editing

• E-mail
• Web Browsers
• Internet Messaging
• Video Conferencing and IP telephony
• Web-hosted applicaitons
• Spyware, adware, pop-ups

• Personal Finance
• Tax prep
• HOme design and landscap design
• Computer assisted tutorials
• Computer assisted referencing
• Games

The file menu interface and changed the office button to a tab

Added the ability to customize the ribbon.

Added a live preview for the paste clipboard.

They allowed the option to capture and insert screen shots

They enhanced the multimedia editing including ability to do video cutting, remove backgrounds, and record a slide show as a video

Like google docs, allows multiple users to edit data on same worksheet, and showed a buddy list of others that identified who is currently editing the doc.

Restrict editing, and block author

The area that encloses and displays the application.

The area that displays the document you are currently working on

any type of product you create with the computer, which include;typewritten work, electronic spreadsheet, or graphics

The minimize, maximize and restore buttons located at the top right of the title bar.

a thick line that encloses the window.

displays information about the application and the doc, such as current page number ad the total number of pages

They allow you to see a different part of the doc b using the mouse and dragging the bar.

appear on the scroll bar and can be clicked to scroll the doc line by line.

a band located across the top of the application window and below the title bar and consists of tabs assembles in groups based on their functions

s segment of the ribbon that contains category titles of tasks you can accomplish within an app.

a tab(s) that appears on the right side of the ribbon but only when specific objects are selected.

a collection of icons on a tab that appear within a rectangular region of the ribbon that perform related functions.

OPening a program, opening a doc, saving a doc, closing a doc, and closing the program.

• Automatic text wrapping
• Find and replace
• Cut, copy, paste
• headers and footers, page breaks, page number and dates
• ability to embed pictures, graphics, charts, tables, footnotes, and endnotes

Things that have actually happened or a prediction of things that might happen known as what-if analysis or modeling.

An excel file

What an Excel workbook is made up of.

Columns and rows which make up cells

The column letter and the row number of a particular cell

Two or more adjacent cells selected at the same time and identified by the addresses of the tope left and bottom right cells seperated by a colon.

Identifying phrases used to explain numeric entries and the results of formulas

A combination of numeric constants, cell references, aritmetic operators, and cell functions that is used to calculate

A formula using the order of operations

a formula that begins with the equals sign but is then followed by a descriptive name tht is predefined in the software

It contains the passable values or variables that the function will need to produce the answer.

A graphical representation of data based on data ranges and labels that identify the ranges

tiny charts embedded into the backgroung of a cell, helps visualize data and show trends

A DBMS, DataBase Management System, which is a software program design to store data in tables

a series of columns (fields) and rows (records) that make up the data set.

The contents of a table.

A template with blank fields in which users input data one record at a time.

Used to display all fields of matching records.

Used to specify more criteria, limit the fields to be displayed, and be saved for re-use

Displays info from tables, queries, or a combination of both in a professional manner.

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a program used to create and deliver presentations

A canvas on which you organize text boxes and graphics to present your ideas or points.

.pptx

a productivity program for business users that provides an environmentfor management of projects.

• A timeline that emphasizes due dates and deadlines.
• Team planning capability using drag and drop
• Portfolio manager that monitors allocation of resources and costs

Personal Information Management system that gives you the tools you need to manage time and work effectively

• E-mail
• Conversation Grouping
• Ignoring Conversations
• Think Before you send
• The calendar

Refers to technology used to present info that includes pictures, sound, and video.

The incorporation of more than one media tech programs.

• Paint
• Drawing
• animation programs
• image-editing programs
• 3D rendering programs
• Audio software
• video-editing software

a way to reduce file size of multimedia software to improve file transfer speeds over the internet and more efficiently use hard disk space

Compression/decompression or code/decode algorithms

The original file is compressed so that it can be completely restored, without flaw, when it is decomressed.

Original filed is processed so that some info is permanently removed from the file.

region of Interest

Downloads would take 3 to 5 times longer since the files would be larger

Hundreds

• MP3
• WMA
• realVideo
• DivX
• XviD

• Audio Video Interleave
• A Microsoft-created specification for packaging audio and video data into a file.  Not a codec

They are used to create news-letters, product catalogs, advertising brochures, and other documents

Bitmapped graphics or raster graphics

They are composed of tiny dots each corresponding to one pixel on the computer's display.

When you edit a bitmapped image and when you enlarge the image and it produces an unattractive distortion.

• Graphics Interchange Format
• a 256 color file format that uses lossless compression to reduce file size, best for simple images with large areas of solid color

• Joint Photo-Graphic Experts Group
• These files can store up to 16.7 million colors and are best for complex images like photographs, uses lossy compression

• Portable Network Graphics
• A patent free alternative to GIF, uses lossless compression and are best suited for Web use.

• Windows Bitmap
• Standard bitmapped graphics format from Microsoft Windows. Compression is optional so they tend to be large

• Tag Image File Format
• Used in publishing and uses very specific instructions to be attached to an image and captures as much detail as possible.

Images created by the use of points, lines, curves, polygons, and basically any shape that can be generated by a mathematical description or equation.

It adds realism to a simulated 3D object by manipulatinf variations in color intensity that would be produced by light

Sophisticated versions of paint programs that are used to edit and tranform

Still pictures that are put together to trick your brain into thinking you are looking at motion shown at a frame rate

a file format whose patent is pending or copyright protected and controlled by a single company

Files that contain digitized data in the form of digital audio waveforms which is saved in a standardized format

• MP3
• WMA (windows Media Audio)
• WAV
• Ogg Vorbis
• MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

programs that enable you to modify digitized videos

• MPEG
• Quicktime
• Video For Windows

Sychronized Multimedia Integration Language, enable users to view multimedia without having to download plugins

• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• Fireworks

the capabililty to upload files to an online site so they can be viewed and edited from another location

Internet software that is installed on your computer without your knowledge or consent

Small window that suddenly appears in the foreground of the current window

Like spyware but it is created specifically by an advertising agency to collect info about your internet habits or to get you to buy something

General purpose software such as personal finance and tax preparation software, home design and landscaping software, computerized reference info and games

• Multiuser dungeons/dimensions
• Based on Dungeons and dragons, took place in a text only environment where players created personas

Massivly Multiplayer online role playing game

Designed for specialized fields or the business market

Developed by programmers and software engineers to meet the specific needs of an organization.

aimed at a mass market that inludes both home and business users

program that is fully self contained, for example excel and word

A single program that manages an entire business or set of related tasks

Functions that share the same user interface and you can switch among them quickly

A collection of individual, full featured, stand alone programs usually possessing a similar interface and a common command structure

the minimal level of equipment that a program needs in order to run

A minor revision that corrects bugs or adds minor features.

commercial programs on the internet, which exprire or stop working when a set trial period ends

A preliminary version of a program in the final phases of testing

The process of keeping your version of an application current with marketplace

A contract distributed with a program that gives you the right to install and use the program on one computer

Contracts with a software publisher that enable an organization to install copies of a program on a specified number of computers.

Proves that you are using a legal copy of a program

Software that must be purchased.

A marketing method that permits a user to have a set period of time to try before you buy.

Software given away for free

Software that is not copyrighted that the user can do anything they want with it.

A program that includes some mechanism to ensure that you dont make or run unauthorized copies of it