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Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations.
(19 terms)
Browser
The short form of Web Browser.
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Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
(14 terms)
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Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
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URL
An address referring to a document on the Internet. This can be used to reference a web page via HTTP or a file to be accessed via FTP, for example. The reason for a URL (rather then just the address) is to define completely what a computer must do, and where it must go, to access a document (sometimes even on it´s local hard drive in the case of ´file:´)
The syntax of a URL consists of four elements: Protocol://address/path/document - here are a few examples: http://www.pawprint.net/in... |
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
Chromatic-aberration
A lens defect that bends light rays of different colors at different angles and therefore focuses them on different planes.
This is common with low-end digital cameras and small consumer point-and-shoot models. |
Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
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TCP
Used in conjunction with the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit information over the Internet in the form of units.
While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet. For example, when a web page is downloaded from a web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the ... |