BrokenClaw | March 5, 2008
The difference between an analog broadcast and a digital broadcast is difficult to explain without some prior knowledge of how radio and television signals get from the tower to your home in the first place. Suffice it to say that broadcast signals are a type of electromagnetic wave that carries data through space. How far [...]
BrokenClaw | March 3, 2008
Size, compression, and resolution are three characteristics which determine the quality of a digital photograph. The size of a digital photo is usually expressed in terms of pixel dimensions, such as 1024 x 768. The quality of digital cameras is usually expressed in megapixels, which represents one million photo sensors in the camera. While megapixels [...]
BrokenClaw | March 2, 2008
Most of today’s consumer electronic products now record everything in digital format. Digital cameras have replaced almost all film snapshot cameras. Video cameras now record on a hard drive or directly to memory cards or mini-DVDs. Telephone answering machines have been digital (replacing the analog cassette tapes) for quite awhile now. Digital video recorders (DVR) [...]
BrokenClaw | March 1, 2008
Digital media refers to any type of media — words, pictures, audio, or video — which is stored on a computer, digital device, or optical media. As discussed in the article, Digital Bits and Bytes, everything on a computer is stored as a series of numeric bits. In other words, to the computer, there is [...]
BrokenClaw | February 9, 2008
Also read about Hardware and Software. Firmware Once the ware terminology was established in computer science, other forms of the word have come into usage. Between hardware and software comes firmware. Firmware is the term used to describe the software which is embedded onto the circuits of hardware. Unlike normal software, users have no control [...]
BrokenClaw | January 5, 2008
Rip a Disk Rip is the slang term for the process of copying digital data from a CD or DVD onto a computer. The word rip comes from the idea of ripping, or peeling, the data from a disc, which is not what really happens. Ripping a disk simply copies the data. It does not [...]
BrokenClaw | December 3, 2007
A database is a computer application used primarily by businesses to keep track of all types of data. In fact, any computerized business uses a database of one kind or another. What makes a database useful is the fact that each piece of data, called a record, is entered into the system individually, but remains [...]
BrokenClaw | December 2, 2007
A spreadsheet is a computer application used primarily to create, edit, and display financial and mathematical data on a grid of columns and rows. The name pre-dates computer applications, from the days when a large handwritten worksheet had to be spread across multiple sheets of paper. Each box on a spreadsheet is called a cell. [...]