March 2009
The SD memory cards known as the “Secure Digital” first began as miniature cards. Afterwards the new and advanced form of the SD memory card SDIO “Secure Digital Input/output” was introduced into the market. The SDA “Secure Digital Association” included new features and technology to the SD memory cards.…
CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter W)
Warp
A special effect sequence of morph images that simulate smooth transitions of dissimilar frames.
WYSBYGI
“What You See Before You Get it.” An extension of WYSIWYG interface design allowing the user to view and edit selected smaller areas from a preview dialog box prior to committing special effects with the processing load of only a portion of the entire file.…
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CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter V)
Video capture
The term for converting analog video signal to digital stills and Motion files.…
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CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter U)
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter. An electronic circuit contained within the communications port(s) of the computer that decodes and encodes data in the fashion required by the specific machine for receiving and transmitting purposes. The UART also performs the actual data transmission to the communication device, once it has been encoded and is ready to send.…
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New SMART technology in HP Hard Disk Drive
During the past years, the new, advanced technology of SMART has been introduced in the hard disk drives. The SMART stands for “Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology”. There are many benefits of the SMART technology. With the help of the SMART technology, the user is given a warning about the hard disk drive incase of imminent failure.…
CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter T)
Tablet
A pressure sensitive input device used in conjunction with a pen to edit digital images.
Touch-screen
A display monitor that is pressure sensitive to touch and is often used as a multimedia control instead or in conjunction with a keyboard.…
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CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter S)
Scanning
The most common practice of encoding real images into digital form Accomplished by use of a scanner which passes an image sensor across the original
Screen grabs
Common term for the capturing screen rasterization images and video stills to digital files.…
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CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter R)
Resampling
The practice of interpolating an image of one specification and producing an image of another specification from that interpolation.
Resolution
Defines image quality of a display. It refers to the number of pixels available on a display. Resolution controls the level of detail that can be presented on a screen.…
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Data loss reasons and recovery solution in Macintosh operating system
Macintosh is considered to be most important and complicated operating system developed by Apple Inc. This is one of the modern operating systems facilitating its users with all the advanced features.
Local File systems used by this operating system are UFS (Unix File System), UDF (Universal Disk Format), HFS (Hierarchical File System) and HFS + (Hierarchal File System+).…
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CD Optical Storage Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter P)
Paint
to apply color or gradient to an area of an image
Palette
A group of selected colors used by a graphics board. The EGA board uses a palette of 16 colors. VGA boards in some resolutions provide a palette of 256 colors.…
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