APPS

=APPLICATIONS OR COMPUTER PROGRAMS OR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS=

Instructions to upload your contribution: 1. Click on EDIT (top right tab) 2. Write your name in brackets (for example [Maria Jose Mora]) 3. Write a title with the name of your component 4. Copy the information you wrote in your word document 5. Upload no more than three pictures from the ones saved in the hub. 6. Write all the websites you used for your research. 7. Don't forget to Save your Work!

[ maya homsy king] Spreadsheets **__ Spreadsheets __**

Definition:

A spreadsheet is a piece of computer software that looks like a piece of graph paper. It is organized by rows and columns, where each intersection or box is called a cell.

Description:

Spreadsheets help you account payments. They have been used by accountants for hundreds of years. Excel is the most used spreadsheet but there are more like Lotus 1-2-3, DOS and many more. They are usually used for math.

[Anna Wooding]

 __ A Word Processor __

A word processor is a computer application used for used for production of any sort of printable material. You can use word processor to make worksheets, type letters, type papers etc. What a word processor helps you to do. If you have information you want to type it will let you type it. You can do all different things like you can delete a paragraph, correct a mistake or print something. You can also do fancy things.

Examples of Word processors are:

Microsoft Word Kingsoft Office [] [] [] []  [Emma.P.Hamilton] presentation creator

Technology assignment: what is a presentation creator?

A presentation creator is a slide show that shows information, pictures and multi media.

Some examples are movie maker and power point. How you use them are: using them for homework, projects, and business meetings. How you use them can be very hard or very easy. To access power point you can make slides and slide pictures for many different meanings.




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** · WIKI is a website that allows you to create your own website that can link to another. **
 * · A WIKI invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site. **
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[chishimba]  __ Video __ __ games __

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. ... ** Background ** Video games are played at the arcade, at home on a television or personal computer, and as a handheld portable game. They are packaged in large consoles, game packs that can only be played on the same manufacturer's hardware (i.e. Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and Sony Play station), and as CD-ROMs. Made up of a program that instructs the computer to display specific visual and audio effects, video games utilize cutting-edge technology in order to provide fast paced entertainment. Recent statistics show that 70% of all children in the United States have home video game systems. Over four billion dollars is spent on arcade video games annually. ** History ** A precursor to the video game, pinball machines were introduced during the 1930s and remained popular through the 1970s. In 1971, a video arcade game was produced called Computer Space. Invented by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, Computer Space was the first real coin-operated video game, but for various reasons, it never became popular. It did however; lay the groundwork for the next video game that Bushnell and Dabney introduced: the phenomenally successful arcade game Pong. Modeled after the game of ping pong, it was an electronic game in which players tried to hit a flashing dot passed their opponent's video paddle. With the success of Pong, Bushnell and Dabney started the Atari Company, and in 1975, they introduced a home version of Pong. In 1976, Warner Communication purchased Atari for $28 million and expanded its home line of video game cartridges. At the same time Bushnell and Dabney were developing Pong, Ralph Baer, who was working for Sanders Associates, was designing a home video game system called The Odyssey. Developed in 1969, Baer's system was finally manufactured and distributed by Magnavox in 1972. The Odyssey was a package of 12 different plug-in games that were housed on circuit cards. Each game came with plastic overlays that, when placed over the television screen, simulated the appropriate background. For example, a plastic overlay of a hockey rink was included with the hockey game. The Odyssey also offered an electronic shooting gallery with four additional games and an electronic rifle. Eighty-five thousand systems were sold. Rapid advances in electronics technology during the 1970s led to the development of more complicated games, such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man. Introduced in 1983 as a joint venture between the Namco Company of Japan and Midway of the United States, Pac-Man has sold hundreds of thousands of games and remains one of the most popular video games. When personal computers became available, computer games were created. Many of these games were adaptations of arcade or home video game systems, however unique games were also developed. The computer game industry grew swiftly during the 1980s powered by various companies, especially the Nintendo Corporation. In the late 1980s, the CD-ROM was introduced. These disks could hold more information on them, and allowed the development of more sophisticated, interactive games. In 1995, digital video disks (DVDs) were first produced for home computers. Since they have a storage capacity over twenty times greater than CD-ROMs, they promise to step up computer games. By chishimba.c

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 [Ezekiel (Zeke) Schuurs]

Animation Creator


 * An animation Creator is a device that lets you see things on the screen. Without it you wouldn’t be able to see anything. This includes pictures and videos as well. The animation creator is a rapid sequence of 2-D or 3-D images that form an animation. It is an optical illusion of m otion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. **

=** This definition is not for ** software **, please remove it from you multimedia presentations! **=
 * That’s a brief explanation of what an Animation Creator is **

=** Important!!! **= Please include the following one:
 * Animation Creator Software** is a program you can use to create moving images in the computer. To create the "movement", an image is displayed on the screen and repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to the previous one.



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[Jack Campbell]

= Web Browsers- Another name is internet browsers and it is part of the software. It helps you find information on the internet. Two different web browsers are Firefox and SeaMonkey. =

[Alessio Martinesi] ** ﻿Web Page Creator ** Definition: This is a program that you use to create Web pages. It can be something as simple as the text editor that came with your computer or it can be something that creates the page right in front of you as you point and click away. If you like to design your pages using HTML then you will probably us a text editor of some sort. They come with a wide variety of options including templates, spell checkers, color coding and much more. If you don't use HTML, or if you want to create a simple page quickly, then you probrably use something more complex. Editors like FrontPage and Composer are easy to use but don't allow you to add complex things such as JavaScript and DHTML without using their text editor option.  Examples: I use an HTML based Web site editor to create my Web pages. Roxer is cool. Very cool. Yes it’s just a web site creator, but my how far we’ve come since the drudgy days of Geocities peeps. The whole thing takes minimalism to a new dimension. Want to edit your page? Click the padlock bottom left, and drag and drop your elements around the page instantly. No mess, no fuss. Text, menu items, images, makes no difference. The control panel for all this editing loveliness is a tiny bar, again bottom left of the screen. Neat and unobtrusive and yet with enough features to make editing intuitive and fast. There’s a range of starter templates to work with, and even a wizard to help complete newbie’s create something beautiful out of very little. The trade off is speed. The finished pages take a while to load, but I’m not really sure whether that’s a function of the code, or because it’s running on a lean mean startup web host machine. It’s something that won’t bother total beginners, but if you’re a little fussy it may get on your nerves. That said, this is a great product and deserves lots of attention. It’s currently very early days for this hosted application, and the developers obviously have plans with a capital P, but for now it’s a great place to send your granny when she calls to ask you to run up a quick web site for her knitting club. Excellent! // Roxer takes a new approach to making web pages, based on the idea that you should never have to bother with code. With Roxer anyone can make visually stunning and fully functional web pages online using only a web browser. Editing is even easier. To rearrange your content, just click and drag items where you want them. To change your text, just click and type. To move content from one page to another, just copy and paste. Best of all, you will be doing these things to your web page from your web page. It’s that easy! //



[Mazmoon Chang]

Media Player

A media player is software that allows you to download and play music and videos. Media players are output software. Windows Media Player, Real Player, Quick Time and iTunes are examples of media players. When you are listening to music or watching a video, you are using one of them. You will not find all these kinds of media players on one kind of computer. Computers have media players but are not the same you might find on another kind.

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(Roberto Eyfjord)

** E ** m // a // i//__l__// What is Email?  Email is an ** electronic mail **, commonly called **email** or **e-mail**, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other Computer networks. Originally, email was transmitted directly from one user to another computer. This required both computers to be online at the same time, a la instant messenger. Today's email systems are based on store-and-forward a model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Users no longer need be online simultaneously and need only connect briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.  An email message consists of two components, the message //header//, and the message //body//, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.   How does it work?  An e-mail message has always been nothing more than a simple **text message** -- a piece of text sent to a recipient. In the beginning and even today, e-mail messages tend to be short pieces of text, although the ability to add attachments now makes many messages quite long. Even with attachments, however, e-mail messages continue to be **text messages** -- we'll see why when we get to the section on attachments.

// History about Email.. //

The first e-mail message was sent in 1971 by an engineer named Ray Tomlinson.