WEEK 2

Lecture:
The lecture told us about computer programs and how to use them.
* Word processing
* Presentation
* Internet access
* E-mails
* Internet browsing/Surfing. FireFox, the Mozilla Suite, Safari, Opera
* Watching/listening audio & video
what we need to know for this course:
* Word processing
* Email skills
* Internet browser
* End note
Browser Statistics – January 2008
* Internet Explorer - 54.7%
* FireFox - 37.2%
* The Mozilla Suite - 1.3% (Gecko, Netscape)
* Safari - 1.9% (Konqueror)
* Opera - 1.4%

Tutorial:
We were asked to edit an document in Microsoft excel and word using the reading tutorials.
Excel:


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Microsoft:




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Screenshot:
This process involves two steps. Creating a screenshot and then saving it as a .JPEG. The process is described below. This document also explains how to save a section of a screen capture.

Reading 1:
This file is a Microsoft Word tutorial. It has the basics of word and exactly what we need to do our tutorial task. Line spacing, font size and type are all shown in examples. It is an easy to use turoial.

Reading 2:
Bitmap(bmp)
* It is the standard Windows bitmap image format for PC's
* When you save an image you can specify the depth of the image between 1-bit to 24-bit depth, this effect the amount of colour and the size of the file.
* If you want to use an image as wallpaper it has to be saved into bitmap format.
CompuServe (.gif)
* GIF is designed to minimize file transfer time over phone lines.
* GIF also format supports moving frames or animations.

Joint Photographic Experts Group- or Jpeg (.jpg):
* JPEG is mostly used to display images on the Internet.
* When saving the document on a JPEG format it automatically compresses it and reduce the file size of the stored image. Also when opening JPEG image it automatically decompresses it.
* Jpg Compression is referred to as lossy. The higher the compression, the quicker the image will transfer, but the more image quality is lost.

The Tagged-Image File Format (.tiff):
* Tiff this file is mainly used to exchange data between computers and can be read by both
* TIFF< LZW compression a method of image compression that uses a mathematical formulas which compresses an image without discarding detail from the image.

Photo Shop Document:
* All images are flat.
* Images have layers, Layer 1 may have an image, layer 2 may have some text, and so on.
* Pictures saved under Photo shop are saved as .psd. PaintShopPro(PSP) and etc.