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icons

are used to identify one application from another

Folder

a subdivision in the hard drive used to organize data

Desktop

the background image of a display screen, on which windows, icons, and other graphical items appear

Binary value

110000 = 48
101011 = 43
11111= 31
56 = 111000
129 =10000001
512 = 1000000000

How will technology help me in the future???

How to make coffe

In the morning when my parents are making their coffe before the go to work. They usually fill up the kattle with water first. Then they place it on the stove, and turn it on high. They usually wait 9-15 minutes till the water is hot. They grab their personal cup and pour the water in the cup. They get the powder coffe and they use a table spoon and they decide how many tea spoons of coffe they should add. After they are done with that they get the suger and add at least 2-3 tablespoons and stur it and thats how they make the morning coffe

Utility software

are designed to do housekeeping chores on the computer

is a place where interaction between human n machines occur

is an operating system

Systems software

coordinates and controls the resrouces and the operations of the computer itself

Software development

is a multistep process that begins with a need to perform a task more efficiently using a computer

Operating systems

is an interface between hardware and user which s responsible for the management and coordination of activies and the sharing of the resources of a computer, that acts as a host for computing applications

Network operating system

is an opertaing systyem that contains components and programs that allow a computers on a network to serve request's from other computer's for data and provide access to other resources such as printer and file systems

Multitasking

is a method by which multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU

MS-DOS

is an operating system for x86 based personal computers

Language translators

is a computer program that translate one programming language instructions into another programming language instruction without it losing its original meaning

Graphical user interfaces

is a type of user interface item that allows pepole to interact with progams in more way then typing such as computers, hand held devices and mp3's

Boot

its a process that starts operating systems when the users turn on a computer

Application software

it consists of programs that were created to preform specific task's

algorithm

an algorthim creates a logical proression of steps needed to acomplish a task

What is a software?

Computer instructions or data that can be stored electronicly

Computers thru time

In grade school i came across like these some what nice apple desktops but thy where big and kinda fat. I also saw the old versions cellphones like we use today....i remember using the orginal big ipod (80 gb) or like the Sidekick or Sidekick 2. Now we have new versions of the ipod and cells phones like the ipod touch and sidekick 3, ID, Slide, LX,08,o9. Technology has advanced greatly since grade school's, computers got faster, smaller, transportable. New and new thing are being invented as the days go by.
Now for my parents when computers were out they looked like dinosuars when i saw a picture them.....in her time it was like the begining of the new future, my mom remembers when she first got her job using a computer, it was hard for her to learn at first but she caught on quick but during the past 30 years, like she hasn't used a computer and her sight isn' that good she doesnt know what she is doing like the have been upgraded big time since her time.
I asked my grandparents what they thought about the computer that came out in there time and their answer was"we was really amazed with the technology but we didnt get one because back then they were really expensive for us and plus it looked like some day they where gonna make a better one that is going to end up brian washing the kids to stay up all night using the internet"

Expatatios and goals

Wells what i expct from this class is to learn more then wat i already knew about computers....to expand my knowledgeof it. I also expect my classmates to be respectful and to listen to what other students have to say

For my goal i want to learn how to repair parts that i learned about and how remember what are the function of each somputer

What is a BIOS?

BIOS is a de facto standard defining a firmware interfce
the initial function of the BIOS is t identify ,test, and initalize systems devices such as video display card, hard disk, floopy disk and other hardware

Input Devicesis any peripheral used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system

any peripheral used to provide data and control to signals to an information processing system

Impact Printers

is a peripheral which produces a hard copy of documents stoed in electronic for, usaly on phyiscal print media such as paper or transparencies

is a non -volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating rigid platters with magnetic surfaces

DVD

is an optical disc storage media format

Controller

a chip or extension card that interfces with a peripheal device

CD-ROM

is a pre-pressed compact disk that has data accessible to, but not writble by a computer for data storage and music playback

Byte

a byte is unit of digital information in computing or telecommunications

a bit is a basic unit of infrmation in computing and telecommunications

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII):

it is a character-encoding scheme based on te ordering of the english alphabet

5 different types of computers

Personal computers(PC)
Desktop
Laptop
Personal Digital Assistants(PDA's)
Minicomputer

What are the parts of a computer?

Central Processing Unit(CPU)
Memory
Random-memory Memory(RAM)
Read-only Memory(ROM)
Basic input/output system(BIOS)
Caching
Virtual Memory
Flash Memory
Motherboard
Power Supply
Hard Disk
Operating system
Integrated Drive Electronics(IDE) Controller
Accelerated Graphics Port(AGP)
Sound Card
Graphic Card
Ports
Real-time Clock
Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor
Fans, heat skins and cooling systems