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Sunday 1 May 2011

Basic and Specialized Software Application

Graphical User Interface ( GUI )
Graphical User Interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. It represents the information and actions available to a user through graphical icons and visual indicators.




Word Processor
Word Processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material. It including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing. Word processing was one of the earliest applications for the personal computer in office productivity.



Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells usually in a two-dimensional matrix or grid consisting of rows and columns. It is frequently used for financial information because of their ability to re-calculate the entire sheet automatically after a change to a single cell is made.



DBMS
Database Management System (DBMS) is a set of computer programs that controls the creation, maintenance, and the use of a database. It allows organizations to place control of database development in the hands of database administrators and other specialists. It is a system software package that helps the use of integrated collection of data records and files known as databases.



Utility Suites
Utility software is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. A single pieceof utility software is generally called a utility or tool. It is for users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or surfing the web.



Web Authoring
A category of software that enables the user to develop a website in a desktop publishing format . The software will generate the required HTML coding for the layout of the Web pages based on what the user designs.  Typically, the user can toggle back and forth between the graphical design and the HTML code and make changes to the Web page in either the design of the accompanying code.



Audio Editing Software
Audio editing software is a full featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac OS X. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings then add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as awav or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.



Bitmap Image
A bitmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Raster images in general may be referred to as bitmaps whether synthetic or photographic, i files or memory.



Desktop Publishing Program
Desktop publishing program combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local multifunction peripheral output and distribution.



HTML Editor
HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality.



Image Editor
Image editor is a 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 bring brightness, contrast and colors. A myriad of filters are available for special effects.



Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.



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