Archive for August, 2006

Multimedia

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

What is “Multimedia?”
Multi- means more than one.
Media- forms of communication. For example text, pictures, sounds, movies, animation.
The Internet was originally a text only medium, even pictures could not be displayed in browsers with text. Computing in general has undergone a revolution over the past 20 years with the growth of “multimedia” applications. From DVD’s and […]

Spreadsheets

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Spreadsheets can be used for many applications from financial book-keeping to statistics. Spreadsheets are more than just rows and columns, a well designed spreadsheet should be “dynamic”. This feature of a spreadsheet means it will change and adapt according to the data input. If the data changes, so too does the results the spreadsheet calculates. […]