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Graphics Interchange Format. A format used for displaying bitmap images on World Wide Web pages, usually called a “gif” because .gif is the filename extension. These files use lossless compression and can have 256 colors. JPEG and GIF are commonly used for images on the Web; JPEG is considered best for photos [...]
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Joint Photographic Experts Group. A format for storing high-quality color and grayscale photographs in bitmap form; also the group that developed the format. JPEG provides lossy compression by segmenting the picture into small blocks which are divided to get the desired ratio; the process is reversed to decompress the image.
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A cross-platform programming language from Sun Microsystems that can be used to create animations and interactive features on World Wide Web pages. Java programs are embedded into HTML documents.
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A program which displays a table of numbers in rows and columns, used for accounting, budgeting, financial analysis, scientific applications, and other work with figures.Originally, paper spreadsheets were used; the computerized versions have the advantage of being able to perform automatic calculations on changing data.Each location in a spreadsheet is called a cell, and each [...]
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