Specailized Application Software

Audio Editing Software:
A very easy-to-use software for editing different audio formats is now available and is highly recommended for those who are just starting out with sound manipulation and to those who are professionally working with sounds.

Bitmap Image:
It is one of many types of file formats for images stored in a computerized form. It is literally a map of bits that form a particular picture when rendered to a display like a computer monitor. It is a digital image made entirely out of pixels (tiny dots of individual color) in a grid.

HTML Editor:
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.

Multimedia:

It is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms or information in more than one form. It includes the use of text, audio, graphics, animation and full-motion video. Multimedia programs are typically games, encyclopedias and training courses on CD-ROM or DVD. However, any application with sound and/or video can be called a multimedia program. An application that can combine text, graphics, full-motion video, and sound into an integrated package. 

Vector Image:

Images made with the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations in computer graphics. These images are made up of many individual, scalable objects. These objects are defined by mathematical equations rather than pixels, so they always render at the highest quality. Objects may consist of lines, curves, and shapes with editable attributes such as color, fill, and outline.

Web Authoring:

A category of software that enables the user to develop a Web site 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.

Basic Application Software

Graphical User Interface (GUI):
A type of user interface that allows users to interact with programs in more ways than typing such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment with images rather than text commands. It offers graphical icons, and visual indicators, as opposed to text-based interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation to fully represent the information and actions available to a user.

Word Processor:
1. A word processor (more formally known as document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material.
2. Word processor may also refer to a type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 80s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated processor (like a computer processor) for the editing of text.

Spreadsheet:
A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas. A formula defines how the content of that cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell (or combination of cells) each time any cell is updated. Spreadsheets are 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.

Database Management System (DBSM):
A 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 (DBAs) and other specialists. A DBMS is a system software package that helps the use of integrated collection of data records and files known as databases. It allows different user application programs to easily access the same database.

Utility Suites:
A system software that is designed to hold and categorize several utilities, which are system software that help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer.

Utility Suites:
A kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. A single piece of utility software is usually called a utility or tool. It is contrasted with application software, which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or surfing the web. Rather than providing these kinds of user-oriented or output-oriented functionality, utility software usually focuses on how the computer infrastructure (including the computer hardware, operating system, application software and data storage) operates.

The Internet & The Web

F.T.P. (File Transfer Protocol):
A standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, like the internet.

Plug-Ins:
A set of software components that adds specific capabilities to a larger software application. They enable customizing the functionality of an application, commonly used in web browsers, scan for viruses and display new file types.

Filters:
1. A higher-order function that processes a data structure (typically a list) in some order to produce a new data structure containing exactly those elements of the original data structure for which a given predicate returns the boolean value true.
2. A computer program to process a data stream.


Internet Security Suite:
A branch of computer security  specifically related to the internet. It is used to establish rules and measure to use against attacks over the Internet.

Wiki:
A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.

Java Scripts:
An implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It is used to add functionality to a webpage.

Applets:
An applet is a small program that can be included in an HTML page (web page), much in the same way an image is included in a page. A small application that performs one specific task, sometimes running within the context of a larger program.

HTML:
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. A markup language is a set of markup tags, and HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages.
 

URL:
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. Addresses of webpages used on the World Wide Web such as http://www.blahblah.com/.

Careers In IT

Webmaster:
A webmaster also known as a web architect or web developer is a person responsible for managing or maintaining one or many websites. A webmaster's duties are ensuring that the web servers, hardware and software are operating accurately, designing the website, generating and revising web pages, replying to user comments, and examining traffic through the site. He or she must also be well-versed in Web transaction software, payment-processing software, and security software.
Alternate definition: a person who uses online media to sell products and/or services.

System Analyst :
A system analyst is a person who analyze business or scientific tasks and plan and develop the hardware systems and software that allow a computer to perform these tasks. They also work on improving computer systems already in use. They are usually employed by a wide variety of organizations, including business, universities, hospitals and more.

Programmer:

A computer programmer is someone who writes computer software. A specialist in one area of computer programming or a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. Also known as a programmer analyst.

Software Engineer:
A person who designs and programs system-level software, such as operating systems, database management systems (DBMS) and embedded systems. This person creates commercial software packages, whether they are system level or application level.

Computer Support Specialist:
Someone who helps people use computers. When something goes wrong, support specialists figure out why. They check computer systems to make sure they are working well. They also install printers, software and other computer tools. They instruct and teach people how to use them.

Technical Writer :
Also known as a Technical Communicator is a person responsible for writing hardware and software documentation, online help, technical definitions and technical product descriptions on Web sites.

Network Administrator:

A person who manages  a local area communications network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) for an organization. Responsibilities include network security, installing new hardware and applications, monitoring software upgrades and daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing a storage management program and providing for routine backups, ensuring that it is running.

Data Administrator:

A person who coordinates activities within the data administration department. Also called a database analyst.