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Uncoated Text – Paper Stock
Papers of various weights and finished with no dull, matte or gloss coating. Often used for stationery and envelopes and on calendars and newsletters. These uncoated (non-glossy) stocks are usually safe for desktop laser printing. Many common stationery stocks are not appropriate for 4-color printing.
Upload
Verb: When one sends information to another, it is called
uploading — the transfer of data files FROM a local computer up to
a specified remote computer, server, or host. "I'm going to upload
my pictures to Shutterfly."
Regarding authoring of Web pages, it means
transferring files from a local computer to the Web server. "I uploaded
a new page for my Web site."
The opposite of upload is download.
In a communications session, upload means transmit, and download means
receive.
Noun: Upload can also be used as a noun to refer to the action or the file uploaded. "The upload was successful." "Did you receive my upload yet?"
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
An address for a resource on the Internet. A uniform resource locator identifies the location on the Internet of where a World Wide Web page can be found. Each page has a unique URL. Web pages are located on servers with unique DNS numbers. When a domain name is registered, it is associated with a server using the server’s DNS number. That is why you can’t just change hosts without going through a process - the pointers associating the site with its physical location must be changed.
USENET
A worldwide network of UNIX systems that has a decentralized administration
and is used as a bulletin board system by special-interest discussion groups.
USENET contributed to the Internet’s rapid expansion
and is considered to have begun in 1979. Its spirit of information sharing and
discussion was the hallmark of its system and was reflected in the Internet as
a whole.
When personal computers were introduced in the late 1970s,
a huge new and ever-expanding computer population was introduced to the Internet.
E-mail was increasingly used, network discussions took place and in the 1980s,
communities formed chat rooms.
Vector Image
Vector (object-oriented) images use mathematical equations to represent
images in computer graphics.
Vector graphics, which use shapes, lines,
curves, points to define an image, are an alternative to raster graphics,
which are composed of an array of pixels or dots.
Vector art is important
in printing because it will print crisply at the resolution of the output
device, even when resized. For instance, the same vector image file can
be used to print very small on a business card, and then enlarged for outdoor
signs with the same sharp quality. In contrast, raster (bitmapped) images
blur in proportion to how much they are enlarged.
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Sources:
Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, Third Edition; Microsoft Encarta College
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