ANIMATION

The creation, recording and retrieving of individual phases of motion. [genedeitch.awn.com]

ADSL-2

Acronym for “Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line”.  Broadband communication technology for use on conventional telephone lines, which reserves more bandwidth for receiving data than for sending data.  [answers.com]

AOL

Acronym for America Online. An American corporation headquartered in Virginia, who own and operate an on line and interactive computer service. [english-test.net]

 AVI

Acronym for Audio Video Interleave. A container format developed for Windows 3.1 in 1992 and used by Microsoft’s Video for Windows Multimedia framework. Although still widely used by consumers, it lacks some features found in newer containers like MPEG or MP4. [afterdawn.com]

ADOBE

Founded in 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock. Adobe was named after Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock’s home in San Altos, California. Adobe is a provider of business, creative and mobile software solutions.  More than half of Adobe’s revenue is generated outside of the USA.  http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf

APPLE 

An American multinational corporation marketing computer hardware, computer software and consumer electronics.  Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. [wikipedia.org]

ANALOGUE

Analogue is a conventional method of transmitting data.  It is aa continuous flow of data. eg a radio frequency.  Digital on the other hand transmits in pieces or samples and provides for greater quality and speed of transmission.

ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

 (ASP) is a technology pioneered by the Micorsoft Corporation and is a type of HTML page (denoted by an .asp file name) that includes script (small programs) that is processed on a web server before the web page is served to the user’s web browser.  This allows the www application to be more interactive. [highbeam.com] 

ALT TAG

HTML tag that provides alternative text when non-textual elements, typically images, cannot be displayed. This is helpful for those who view web pages in text-only mode or the visual impaired.

BLU-RAY

Blu-ray is an optical disc format such as CD and DVD.  It was developed for recording and playing back high definition (HD) video and for storing large amounts of data. While a CD can hold 700 MB of data and a basic DVD can hold 4.7 GB a single Blu-ray disc can hold up to 25 GB.    Blu-ray discs can hold more data than other optical media because of the blue lasers the drivers use. The blue laser has a shorter wavelength than red lasers used for CDs and DVDs, which allows the laser to focus on a smaller area, therefore allowing significantly more data to be saved into the same area 

BLACKBERRY

The BlackBerry is an all-in-one wireless data and voice device developed by Research in Motion, Ltd, Ontario. (www.blackberry.net).  Available in mobile and PDS sizes, the devises provide email, phone, text messaging, web browsing as well as Yahoo instant messaging and corporate data access. [techweb.com]

BLUE TOOTH

A wireless personal area network (WPAN) standard for short-range transmission of digital voice and data. Using omnidirectional radio waves, Bluetooth transmits through walls and other non-metal barriers.  It is widely used for handsfree conversations where mobiles are connected to Bluetooth headsets and vehicles contain Bluetooth enabled audio equipment. 

BLOG

Short for web log, a blog is a specialised site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running log/diary with online audiences. Blog entries mostly apear in reverse chronological order.

BROADBAND

Broadband comes from the words “broad bandwidth”.  Multiple signals share the bandwidth of a single medium, which allows the transmission of voice, data and video signals.  Cable television (or Austar locally) are examples of broadband technology delivering multiple channels over one cable.

BANDWIDTH

Bandwidth is the measure of the amount of information or data that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is measured in thousands of bits per second (kbps) or millions of bits per second(Mbps)

BITMAP

Bitmaps are grids of tiny dots or pixels, each of which has it’s own colour and brightness value.   Common bitmap filetypes include bmp, jpeg, giff and tiff.  Bitmaps are raster images and become quite pixelated when enlarged. 

BRACKET <HTML>

Brackets ie < and > are used to enclose HTML code /tags.  The opening bracket (<) is followed by an element which is browser command, and ending with the closing bracket (>).

BROWSER

Short for web browser, a browser is the software used to view, manage and access web pages by interpreting hypertext and hyperlinks.  Two examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.