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| Media Player | A windows utility that can play video clips, animation, or sound files. |
| MIDI File | A file containing musical data encoded according to Musical Instrument Digital Interface specifications. |
| Modem | A device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone or cable lines. |
| Motion Card | A card that enables a presentation to display a motion picture on a computer monitor. |
| MP3 | Compresses large wave files into much smaller files that can be easily transmitted across the Internet. |
| MPEG 1 | Postage stamp resolution 352X240. |
| MPEG 2 | Broadcast quality resolution, 720X480 w/ CD quality sound |
| MPEG 3 | High Definition Television |
| MPEG Video | A format for the compression of digitized videos and animations developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group. |
| Multimedia | The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way. |
| Narrow web site | A web site where the home page is the index and all other web pages are individually linked to the home page. |
| Network | A group of two or more computer systems linked together. |
| Newsgroup | An on-line discussion group. |
| Non-empty tag | An HTML code requiring a closing tag. An example would be <B> and </B> required to begin and end bold in a website. |
| Offline | Not connected to the network. |
| Online | Turned on and connected to the network. |
| Ordered list | Items in numeric order preceded by a number. |
| Orphan | Last line of a paragraph appearing at the top of a page or column by itself. |
| Pasteboard | The work surface on the computer screen that surrounds the actual publication page |
| Pathname | Folder(s) in which the file is stored and the extension. |
| Photo CD | A system used to store camera photographs on a compact disc. |
| Post Office Protocol | A protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. |
| Portrait | Page orientation (layout) that is taller than wide; vertical layout |
| Printer Driver | Software that converts an application program's printing request into language that the printer understands. |
| Proportional spacing | Character spacing based on the width of each character, the letter l takes up less space than the letter M. |
| Protocols | Standardized procedures for transmitting files. |
| Publication | A page or collection of pages created by integrating text and graphics |
| Pull quotes (call outs) | Phrases from an article that are enlarged an placed near the article to attract attention to the article. |
| Quicktime | A cross-platform real-time video and multimedia data format developed by Apple Computer. (.mov) |
| Resolution | The sharpness of an image; a devices ability to produce detail on the monitor or printout. |
| Reverse type | Text appears in white on a black or color background. |
| RGB color code | A list of extended color names and corresponding hexadecimal triplets support by most web browsers. |
| River | White space formed from lines of copy containing poorly spaced words. |
| Rule | A term for a line in graphic design. |
