Basic and Specialized Application Software

Graphical User Interface (GUI) :-
       The Graphical User Interface or for short GUI, is a user interface based on graphics like icons, pictures and menus, instead of text. It is used by the most updated operating systems. In other words, it is a human-computer interface. It takes advantage of the computer's graphics capacity for easier use of the program.





Word Processor :-
        A word processor, or sometimes abbreviated as WP, is formally known as a document preparation system. It is a purposeful computer or program for accumulating, conducting, and formatting text entered from a keyboard and providing a printout. It is a software used to produce documents like posters, reports and letters.

Spreadsheet :-
        A spreadsheet is a computer program usually used for accounting, in which figures arranged in the rows and columns of a grid can be conducted and used in calculations. It is a screen-oriented interactive that allows a user to put financial data on the screen.

DBMS :-
        DBMS, also known as Database Management System, is a software system that assists the creation and maintenance, and use of an electric database. It is also a software that administers the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in the database.







Utility Suites / Software :-
        Utility suites or software are a kind of system software made to help examine, set up, optimize and sustain the computer. They are computer programs normally provided by a computer hardware manufacturer or software vendor and used in running the system. Its methods can be used to examine processing activity and to test programs.

Audio Editing Software :-
        Audio editing software is a computer application for manipulating digital audio - digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation - to change length, speed and volume or to create loops.

 

Bitmap Image :-
        Bitmap image is also known as a raster image. It uses thousands of pixels in a grid. Each pixel contains colour information for the image. Bitmap images have fixed resolution which means that its quality decreases in terms of distortion and jagged edges, when the image is enlarged.







Desktop Publishing Program :-
        Desktop Publishing Programs are also known as page layout programs. They allow one to use dissimilar typefaces, designate distinct margins and justifications, and install illustrations and graphs straight into the text. Desktop publishing programs are used to create document like brochures, newsletters and books.

HTML Editor :-
        A HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)  Editor or also called an authoring tool, is a software to create web pages. It embeds a HTML code as one works with a HTML file. Specially designed HTML editors offer convenience and added practicability.









Image Editor :-
        Image editors are programs that allows one to capture, manipulate and edit a certain image. They modify bitmap images like GIFs, JPEGs and BMPs. They can expand, crop, and adjust brightness, contrast and colours of an image.











Multimedia :-
        Multimedia, or also known as "rich media", is the use of computers to produce text, animation, video, sound and graphics in a joined way. It is the information of multiple formats. It is the interactivity of several media types in a single digital object.

Vector Image :-
        A vector image is a type of a graphic file. Unlike bitmap images, vector images use geometric shapes or objects like points, lines, curves, ellipses and polygons, and shapes. Vector images usually contain less data than bitmap images and so it is therefore easier to alter, resize, coloured and manipulated.