EDIT 202 – File Management Lab
Mark Prokopiuk
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1. Screenshot of Starter-Files folder
2. Sample Gif Image
GIF
Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics file
format used by the World Wide Web, CompuServe and many BBSs. GIF supports color and various
resolutions. It also includes data compression, but because it is limited to 256 colors, it is more
effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.
3. Sample JPEG Image here
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JPEG
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression
technique for color images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some
detail is lost in the compression.
4. Webopaedia Definitions
File - (n.) A collection of data or information that has a name, called the filename.
Almost all information stored in a computer must be in a file. There are many different
types of files: data files, text files , program files, directory files, and so on. Different
types of files store different types of information. For example, program files store
programs, whereas text files store text.
Upload - To transmit data from a computer to a bulletin board service, mainframe, or
network. For example, if you use a personal computer to log on to a network and you
want to send files across the network, you must upload the files from your PC to the
network.
Download - To copy data (usually an entire file) from a main source to a peripheral
device. The term is often used to describe the process of copying a file from an online
service or bulletin board service (BBS) to one's own computer. Downloading can also
refer to copying a file from a network file server to a computer on the network.
In addition, the term is used to describe the process of loading a font into a laser printer.
The font is first copied from a disk to the printer's local memory. A font that has been
downloaded like this is called a soft font to distinguish it from the hard fonts that are
permanently in the printer's memory.
The opposite of download is upload, which means to copy a file from your own computer
to another computer.
Hardware - Refers to objects that you can actually touch, like disks, disk drives, display
screens, keyboards, printers, boards, and chips. In contrast, software is untouchable.
Software exists as ideas, concepts, and symbols, but it has no substance.
Books provide a useful analogy. The pages and the ink are the hardware, while the words,
sentences, paragraphs, and the overall meaning are the software. A computer without
software is like a book full of blank pages -- you need software to make the computer
useful just as you need words to make a book meaningful.
Software - Computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is
software. The storage devices and display devices are hardware.
The terms software and hardware are used as both nouns and adjectives. For example,
you can say: "The problem lies in the software," meaning that there is a problem with the
program or data, not with the computer itself. You can also say: "It's a software problem."
The distinction between software and hardware is sometimes confusing because they are
so integrally linked. Clearly, when you purchase a program, you are buying software. But
to buy the software, you need to buy the disk (hardware) on which the software is
recorded.
Software is often divided into two categories:
systems software : Includes the operating system and all the utilities that enable the
computer to function.
applications software : Includes programs that do real work for users. For example, word
processors, spreadsheets, and database management systems fall under the category of
applications software.