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.JPG

JPEG (usually pronounced JAY-pehg) is a term for any graphic image file produced by using a JPEG standard.

A

Action Script

ActionScript is an ECMAScript-based programming language used for scripting Adobe Flash movies and applications.

ActionScript

an ActionScript is the the language used in the Macromedia Flash program.

Look in the help menu in Macromedia Flash for more detailed information.


Array

An Array is just a computer term for a: List or Vector. is one of the simplest date sturctures, and are useful in Flash, and there are numerous uses for Arrays in other programs.


Authoring Software

A category of software [which] lets you make a web page without having any knowledge of HTML.


B

Behavior

"A behavior" is a reusable block of computer code or script that, when applied to an object (computer science,) especially a graphical one, causes it to respond to user input in meaningful patterns or to operate independently, as if alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviour

Bitmap Graphic

A bitmap graphic, is a data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display device. The color of each pixel is individually defined; images in the RGB color space, for instance, often consist of colored pixels defined by three bytesone byte each for red, green and blue. Less colorful images require less information per pixel; an image with only black and white pixels requires only a single bit for each pixel. Raster graphics are distinguished from vector graphics in that vector graphics represent an image through the use of geometric objects such as curves and polygons.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_graphics


Bitmap Graphics

A bit map (often spelled "bitmap") defines a display space and the color for each pixel or "bit" in the display space. A Graphics Interchange Format and a JPEG are examples of graphic image file types that contain bit maps.

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Browsers

Browsers are software programs that allow you to navigate the World Wide Web.


C

Chatting

Real time conversations on the Internet, can occur on the world wide web, Internet relay chat (IRC), through instant messaging, on-line commercial servers (eg AOL or CompuServe). Can be accessed through websites. A chat room is an on-line forum where two or more people can engage in chat (Careaga).

CMYK

CMYK is a scheme for combining primary pigments. C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black.

Colour models

Colour models are ,for example, RGB or CMYK


Colour Modes

RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is the colour model for light and the colour model for computer and TV screens.

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Component

Components are movie clips with parameters that allow you to modify their appearance and behavior. Examples are radio buttons, check boxes, media controller or a scroll pane.

Components

Components are drag-and-drop elements that you use to create a user interface almost instantly. Components are movie clips with parameters that allow you to modify their appearance and behaviour.

(Flash Help)


Conditional

Conditional statements are a vital part of a programming language; these statements are requests to the computer to make an execution choice based on a given set of conditions.


Conferencing

Real-time, two-way communications. Audio-video telecommunication support of simultaneous interactions among participants (eg, involving conference calls or videoconferencing).

Connecting

A computer connects to other computers (the internet) via a modem (examples: telephone, cable, DSL).

Cookies

Contains the information that tell you the times and dates that you have visited web sites. Information can be saved to hard disks in these text files, for example, online purchases, validation information about you for members-only web sites, and more.


Copyright

Copyright is the ownership of an intellectual property within the limits prescribed by a particular nation's or international law. For example, the copyright law provides that the owner of a property has the exclusive right to print, distribute, and copy the work, and permission must be obtained by anyone else to reuse the work in these ways.


CSS

In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

D

Data Integrity

Data Integrity refers to the validity of data. It can be compromised in a number of ways.

(taken from webopedia)


DHTML

Dynamic HTML or DHTML is a method of creating interactive web sites by using a combination of static markup language HTML, a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), the presentation definition language (e.g. Cascading Style Sheets), and the Document Object Model.

Digital Certificate

A digital certificate is an electronic "credit card" that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web. It is issued by a certification authority ( CA ). It contains your name, a serial number, expiration dates, a copy of the certificate holder's public key, and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that a recipient can verify that the certificate is real.


Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Dreamweaver creates and maintaining basic websites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/


Dynamic HTML

Dynamic HTML or DHTML is a method of creating interactive web sites by using a combination of static markup language HTML, a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), the presentation definition language (e.g. Cascading Style Sheets), and the Document Object Model.

INFO FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML


E

eCommerce

Electric commerce: the conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. Specifically, ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications.

eMail

Electronic mail. Mail composed and transmitted on a computer system or network.

Encryption

Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext , that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people. Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood.


Equity of Access

Equity of access means that all people have the information they need-regardless of age, education, ethnicity, language, income, physical limitations or geographic barriers.

(taken from ALA)


Expression

An expression in a programming language is a combination of values, variables, operators, and functions that are interpreted (evaluated) according to the particular rules of precedence and of association for a particular programming language, which computes and then produces (returns, in a stateful environment) another value.

F

File Formats

A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file.

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Fill

A shape created in Flash can be made using fill. Fill is used to colour-in the shape. Colours are chosen in the Colours section of the toolbox.


Firewall

A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it typically used to protect a network when it is connected to an outside network, especially the Internet.

Firewalls

A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.

Fireworks

Macromedia Fireworks (also known as FW for short) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, developed by Macromedia and aimed at web designers (with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc.). It is designed to integrate easily with other Macromedia products, such as Dreamweaver and Flash, and is part of the Macromedia Studio 8 suite.


Flash

Flash is an authoring tool that allows you to create anything from a simple animation to a complex interactive web application, such as an online store.


Frame

Frame (Frame-by-frame animation): Is an animation created by moving an object little-by-little over several consecutive frames and is used by working with the Timeline feature in Flash.

Source: http://wps.aw.com/aw_webwizard/0,6065,184735-,00.html


Frontpage

Microsoft FrontPage is a powerful Web design software tool that is available at retail locations everywhere.


FTP

FTP or (file transfer protocol) is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (eg. Internet or intranet). Two computers are needed for a FTP transfer: a server and a client.

Function

A function object is a computer programming construct allowing an object to be invoked or called as if it were an ordinary function. The exact meaning may vary among programming languages


G

Gradient

Gradients allow you to create the illusiuon of depth and allows you to blend colors.


Grid

When the grid is displayed in a document, it appears as a set of lines behind the artwork in all scenes. You can snap objects to the grid, and you can modify the grid size and grid line colour.

Guide

Guides are a feature in Flash to help you lay out the Stage more precisely. Guides are horizontal and vertical lines you can use as drawing aids while you work.smile

H

HTML

In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. HTML is used to structure information and can be used to describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document. HTML's grammar structure is the HTML DTD that was created using SGML syntax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML


HTTP

HTTP  (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web.

Hyperlink

A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource.

Hyperlinks

A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. As such it is similar to a citation in literature. Combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, a computer can be instructed to fetch the resource referenced. Hyperlinks are part of the foundation of the World Wide Web.


I

IMAP

(Internet Message Access Protocol) IMAP is gradually replacing POP as the main protocol used by email clients in communicating with email servers. Using IMAP an email client program can not only retrieve email but can also manipulate message stored on the server, without having to actually retrieve the messages. So messages can be deleted, have their status changed and multiple mail boxes can be managed.


Internet

The Internet is the publically accessed system operating worldwide on computer networks. It is made up of thousands of networds, and web pages carrying various information and services. These include electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (IE) -- sometimes referred to as Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) -- is the most widely used World Wide Web browser. It comes with the Microsoft Windows operating system and can also be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. The IE browser competes with an earlier browser, Netscape, now owned by AOL.

www.webasyst.net/glossary.htm


internet history

connecting poeple while they are on the computer and the earliest versions appeared in the late 1950s.


Intranet

A network based on TCP/IP protocols (an internet) belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization. An intranet's Web sites look and act just like any other Web sites, but the firewall surrounding an intranet fends off unauthorized access. Like the Internet itself, intranets are used to share information.

for more information, check out the wiki or go to the following website

precisecyberforensics.com/glossary.html


K

Keyframe

A keyframe is a frame in which you define a change in an animation or include frame actions to modify a document. Flash can tween, or fill in, the frames between keyframes to produce fluid animations.


L

Layer

Layers are like transparent sheets of acetate stacked on top of each other. Layers help you organize the artwork in your document. You can draw and edit objects on one layer without affecting objects on another layer. Where there is nothing on a layer, you can see through it to the layers below.


Layers

Layering is the organization of programming into separate functional components that interact in some sequential and hierarchical way. (whatis.com)

Library

The library is used to store and organize symbols that are created in flash. 

Loop

A loop  is a sequence of statements which is specified once but which may be carried out several times in succession. The code "inside" the loop is obeyed a specified number of times, or once for each of a collection of items, or until some condition is met.


M

Maintenance

Once a website has been completed, constant maintenance is needed to keep things running - especially if the website has dynamic content or if users are able to interact with the website. Depending ont the size and scale of the website, maintenance can be a full time job.


Manipulation

Manipulation happens when you change the colour, erase or cut out sections of any picture.to get a better idea of manipulation, look at the first picture:

Now look at the same picture. But it has been manipulated.

By, Stephanie Kelly ME2. Picture from Google image search. manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, version 7.0.1.


Messaging

A form of network communication that appears instantly on the monitor of the receiving system. Also called instant messaging.

Motion Guide

Motion Guide is nothing but moving your symbol in a predefined path such as curves or circles. Learn how to move Flash objects in circular, zig zag or curved paths using Flash motion guide.

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Motion Tween

In motion tweening, you define properties such as position, size, and rotation for an instance, group, or text block at one point in time, and then you change those properties at another point in time. You can also apply a motion tween along a path.


Movie

A Flash Movie is an animated film created using Macromedia Flash animation software, usually as a form of limited animation.

N

Netcsape

A widely used browser or client used to search and view information files on the World Wide Web. Another popular browser is Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Netscape

A graphical browser of the World Wide Web that provides search/retrieval programming, multimedia applications and e-mail functionality to users of the Internet.


News Groups

Discussion forums organized around a particular interest, issue or activity. Can be used to share expertise, views and information, and debate issues.

Notepad

Notepad is a Windows program normally used as a text editor. It is a text editor supplied with Windows. It is sometimes used to type in HTML code.
Notepad (if it's installed) can be opened by clicking on Start> Programs> Accessories> Notepad.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:Notepad&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title


O

Object

Object: An item consisting of data that a user can manipulate as a single unit to perform a task. An object can appear as text, an icon, or both.

www.sabc.co.za/manual/ibm/9agloss.htm 


Online Gaming

Internet games (also known as online games) are games that are played online via the Internet. They are distinct from video and computer games in that they are normally platform independent, relying solely on client-side technologies (normally called 'plugins'). Normally all that is required to play Internet games are a web browser and the appropriate plugin (normally available for free via the plugin maker's website). A game played in a browser is often called a browser-based game.

Opera

Opera is a Web browser that provides some differences with the two most popular browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. Much smaller in size, Opera is known for being fast and stable.


P

Palette

Is the available colors supported by a computer graphics system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palette


Panels

The Training Layout panel set arranges your workspace in a way that facilitates taking lessons. You'll use this layout for all lessons that you take in Flash. (Flash Help Menu)


Photoshop

Adobe graphics program.

Pixel

The pixel (a word invented from "picture element") is the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image. Think of it as a logical - rather than a physical - unit. The physical size of a pixel depends on how you've set the resolution for the display screen. If you've set the display to its maximum resolution, the physical size of a pixel will equal the physical size of the dot pitch (let's just call it the dot size) of the display. If, however, you've set the resolution to something less than the maximum resolution, a pixel will be larger than the physical size of the screen's dot (that is, a pixel will use more than one dot). url


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POP

On the Internet, a point-of-presence (POP) is an access point from one place to the rest of the Internet. (POP also stands for the e-mail Post Office Protocol. A POP necessarily has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your Internet service provider (ISP) or online service provider (such as AOL) has a point-of-presence on the Internet and probably more than one. The number of POPs that an ISP or OSP has is sometimes used as a measure of its size or growth rate.

Privacy

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those whom they choose to give the information.

Examples of Privacy:  Political privacyMedical privacyGenetic privacyPrivacy during an online job searchInternet PrivacyPrivacy from corporations and Privacy from government interference.

(taken from wikipedia.com)


Proxy Server

A proxy server is a computer network service which allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services.

Proxy Servers

A server that sits between a client application , such as a Web browser , and a real server . It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the real server.

R

Resolution

the level of detail of an image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution


RGB

RGB

The RGB colour model utilizes the additive model in which red, green, and blue light are combined in various ways to create other colours. The very idea for the model itself and the abbreviation "RGB" come from the three primary colours in additive light models.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


Ruler

To help you get your bearings, you can choose to display Rulers. [View --> Rulers] Rulers appear along the top and the left side of the Stage.The ruler is measured in pixels. cool


S

Safari

A type of web browser associated with the Mac OS platform.


Scene

To organize a document thematically, you can use scenes. For example, you might use separate scenes for an introduction, a loading message, and credits.

Note: You cannot use scenes in a screen-based document.

When you publish a Flash document that contains more than one scene, the scenes in the document play back in the order they are listed in the Scene panel in the Flash document. Frames in the document are numbered consecutively through scenes. For example, if a document contains two scenes with ten frames each, the frames in Scene 2 are numbered 11-20.

You can add, delete, duplicate, rename, and change the order of scenes.

To stop or pause a document after each scene, or to let users navigate the document in a nonlinear fashion, you use actions.


Search Engine

A search engine is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer.

Search Engines

Permits searching of documents and databases accessible on the Internet. Search engines can be set up to search only content within one Web site or to search the entire Internet. Many search engine developers have their own web sites such as Lycos and Alta Vista. In addition to search engines there are index sites such as Yahoo, where links to Web sites are organized into categories so that you can browse categories rather than guessing at search terms.

Security

The protection of information assets through the use of technology, processes, and training.


Shape

Shape is a 2D or implied 2D area defined by line or changes in value and/or colour.

www.ackland.org/tours/classes/glossary.html 


Shape Tween

By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another shape over time. Flash can also tween the location, size, and color of shapes.


Slicing

In object-oriented programming, slicing is an operation to slice off a target value by size of the base type, thus extra parts will be gone. This is not the same as array slicing, however it does have similar characteristics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slicing


SMTP

SMTP  (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the standard form for e-mail transmission across the Internet.

Snap to Grid

The Snap to Grid tool allows user to precisely position their elements on the Flash page.


Sound

There are two types of sounds in Flash: event sounds and stream sounds. An event sound must download completely before it begins playing, and it continues playing until explicitly stopped. Stream sounds begin playing as soon as enough data for the first few frames has been downloaded.

Stage

When the Stage is magnified, you may not be able to see all of it. The Hand tool lets you move the Stage to change the view without having to change the magnification.


Stroke

The ability to make shapes in adobe flash can me created through using strokes. Strokes can be accessed in the colours section in the tool box, where the colour of the stroke can be changed.

Symbol

Symbols can have all the functionality that you can create with Flash, including animation

Syntax

The rules for the construction of a command or statement when using actionscripting.

T

Tags

A tag is a keyword which acts like a subject or category. A keyword is used to organize webpages and objects on the Internet. Each user "tags" a webpage or image using his/her own unique tag. An image or webpage may have multiple tags that identify it. Webpages and images with identical tags are then linked together and users may use the tag to search for similar webpages and images.

TCP/IP

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP.

Testing

In general, testing is finding out how well something works. In terms of human beings, testing tells what level of knowledge or skill has been acquired. In computer hardware and software development, testing is used at key checkpoints in the overall process to determine whether objectives are being met.

http://searchvb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid8_gci534970,00.html


Text

Text refers to character data, or to one of the segments of a program in memory. In Flash, text is written letters which are objects that themselves can be animated.

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.


Timeline

Just above the Stage, you see the Timeline and layers. This is used to create and name layers, and add content to frames on layers to organize how your Flash content plays as the playhead moves across the frames.


Timelines

The Timeline organizes and controls a document's content over time in layers and frames. Like films, Flash documents divide lengths of time into frames. Layers are like multiple film strips stacked on top of one another, each containing a different image that appears on the Stage. The major components of the Timeline are layers, frames, and the playhead.

(FLASH HELP)


V

Variable

In a case-sensitive programming language, variable names that differ only in case (book and Book) are considered different from each other. Therefore the variable needs to remain consistent throughout the programming in Flash.

Vector Graphic

A graphic image drawn in shapes and lines, called paths.

Vector Graphics

Vector graphics is the creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space.

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Vector Paths

A vector path is made of a number of segments, each of which is a connected sequence of points.

Information from
http://www.levien.com/libart/vpath.html

Video

Computer Science Of or relating to the production of images on video displays.

Virus Protection

A virus is a code which can either lie dormant in a computer and be not particualry harmful, but it can can also cause computers to shut down, lose of data, and even make the computer need to be reformatted. To prevent this Virus Protection has been created. There are many different programs for Virus protection or Anti-virus software, some working better than others, but the aim of all the programs is to protect your computer from harmful and useless virus's.

W

Web Page

A web page or webpage is a resource on the World Wide Web

WWW

The World Wide Web "www" is a global information space which people can read-from and write-to via a large number of different internet-connected devices.

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG application is one that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed. This differs, for example, from word processors that are incapable of displaying different fonts and graphics on the display screen even though the formatting codes have been inserted into the file. WYSIWYG is especially popular for desktop publishing.

X

XML

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. In other words: XML is a way of describing data and an XML file can contain the data too, as in a database.


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