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technical vocab #3
Question | Answer |
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white pater | to describe the techmology or product in terms most people can understand |
worm | a computer virus or an optical storage techmology |
snippet | small section of tect or source code that can be inserted into a code of a program or web page |
plug-in | an add-on for a program that adds funtionality to it |
motherboard | the main circuit board of your computer and is also known as the mainboard or logic board |
driver | a small file that helps the computer communicare with certain hardware device |
digital signature | a small clock of data that is attached toa document you sign, generated from your digital ID |
wiki | a website that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own web browser |
applet | a jaca program that can be embeded into a web page, can't access system resources on the local computer, system files adn serial devices (codems, printers, scanners, etc.) cannot be used |
Firewire | can be used to connect devices such as digital video camras, hard drives, audio interfaces, and MP3 players such ats the Apple IPod, to your computer |
MIDI | "musical picture experts group" develops standards for digital audio adn video compression |
MPEG | "musical instrument digital interface" a connectivity standard that musicians use to hook together musical instruments (keyboards and synthesizers) and a computer |
ISO | "international organization for stadardization" works with standard institutions from over 150 countries to decelop techmology and product standards |
RAM | "random access memory" small memory chops that form a memory modem |
"portable document format" a multiplatform file format developed by adobe systems captures document text, fonts, images, and even formatting for documents fromm a veriety of apps. |