Computer software is often
regarded as anything but hardware, meaning that the "hard" are the
parts that are tangible (able to hold) while the "soft" part is the
intangible objects inside the computer. Software encompasses an
extremely wide array of products and technologies developed using
different techniques like programming languages, scripting languages
etc. The types of software include web pages developed by technologies
like HTML, PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP.NET, XML, and desktop applications like
Microsoft Word, OpenOffice developed by technologies like C, C++, Java,
C#, etc. Software usually runs on an underlying operating system (which
is a software also) like Microsoft Windows, Linux (running GNOME and
KDE), Sun Solaris etc. Software also includes video games like the
Super Mario, Grand Theft Auto for personal computers or video game
consoles. These games can be created using CGI (computer generated
imagery) that can be designed by applications like Maya, 3ds Max etc.
A web BROWSER is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images,videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Web browsers format HTML information for display, so the appearance of a Web page may differ between browsers.Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation.Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine.Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. Opera handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds.Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers.Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows (see Internet Explorer shell) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich.
Antivirus
software (sometimes spelled Anti-Virus or anti-virus with the hyphen)
are computer programs that attempt to identify, neutralize or eliminate
malicious software. The term "antivirus" is used because the earliest
examples were designed exclusively to combat computer viruses.AVG
is an umbrella term for a range of antivirus and internet security
software for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD computing
platforms, developed by AVG Technologies.McAfee VirusScan
is a popular antivirus program created and maintained by McAfee,
formerly known as Network Associates. VirusScan is designed for home
and home-office use; McAfee also develops VirusScan Enterprise for use
in corporate environments.Norton AntiVirus
(NAV), a product of Symantec Corporation, is a popular antivirus
program. Its function is to detect and remove viruses.Ad-Aware
is an anti-spyware program developed by Lavasoft that detects and
removes spyware or adware on a user's computer. It also detects other
malware, including dialers, Trojans, viruses, bots, rootkits.Avast Antivirus
is an anti-virus program developed by ALWIL Software based in Prague,
Czech Republic, first released in 1988. Avast! was one of the first
on-access antivirus programs to be released for Windows x64 edition.
A
messenger
is a person employed in business to convey messages, official
dispatches, telegrams, letters, or parcels, and go on special errands
as part of their duties.which was released on November 6, 2007.The
technology used within the Google server network however is not
publicly known.MSN Messenger,
now called Windows Live Messenger, is a freeware instant messaging
client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005
and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating
system (except Windows Vista).Yahoo! Messenger
is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated
protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of
charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic. mIRC
is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Microsoft Windows, created
in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully
functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language makes it
extensible and versatile.Instant messaging between the Google Talk
servers and its clients uses an open protocol, XMPP, allowing users of
other XMPP clients to communicate with Google Talk users. VoIP in
Google Talk is based around the Jingle protocol.AOL
LLC (formerly America Online, Inc.) is an American global Internet
services and media company operated by Time Warner and was
headquartered in Loudoun County, Virginia until late April 2008 when it
was moved to new offices at 770 Broadway in New York City
Multimedia
is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content
forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content
forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple
content forms.The term is used in contrast to media which only utilize
traditional
forms of printed or hand-produced text and still graphics. In general.JetAudio
is a multimedia player software offers advanced playback option and
multimedia file editor even burning capabilities. There are two
different versions: Basic and Plus. The Plus version has additional
bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion.RealPlayer
(briefly known also as RealOne Player) is a cross-platform media player
by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including
MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of
proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.KMPlayer
(Konqueror Media Player) is a video player for KDE . It is both a
plugin for Konqueror, as well as a standalone video player. It is
capable of running MPlayer or xine as a backend.Winamp
is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of
Time Warner. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware/shareware.The
minimalist WinAMP 0.20a was released as freeware on 21 April 1997. Its
windowless menubar-only interface showed only play (open), stop, pause,
and unpause functions.
Graphics
(from Greek γραφικός; see -graphy) are visual presentations on some
surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to
brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs,
drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols,
geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images.CorelDRAW
is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation
of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics
Suite.CorelDRAW's capability to handle multiple pages from within the
main
program provides a major benefit compared to Adobe Illustator (up to
CS3).Adobe Photoshop,
or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and
published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader
for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship
product of Adobe Systems.The Adobe Flash Player
is a widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player
created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe after
its acquisition.AutoCAD
supports a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) for
customization and automation. These include AutoLISP, Visual LISP, VBA,
.NET and ObjectARX. ObjectARX is a C++ class library.Xara Xtreme
(formerly Xara X) is a 2D vector graphics editor created by the British
software company Xara.Xara Xtreme for Linux (or Xara Xtreme Linux
Edition) is the open source
version of Xara Xtreme. Formerly, it was called Xara Xtreme LX or just
Xara LX; the abbreviation LX stands for Linux.
compress
is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method,
which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in
LZ78.Files compressed by compress are typically given the extension .Z.
Most tar programs will pipe their data through compress when given the
command line option -Z (tar in itself does not compress, it just stores
multiple files within one tape archive file).WinRAR
(a.k.a. RAR) is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility
developed by Eugene Roshal. It is one of the few applications that is
able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to
be proprietary.The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his
brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in business of the software.WinZip
is a proprietary file archiver and compressor for Microsoft Windows,
developed by WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing). It
natively uses the PKZIP format but also has various levels of support
for other archive formats.the creators of WinZip incorporated
compression code from the Info-ZIP project, thus eliminating the need
for the PKZIP executable to be present.
In
the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by work
done in a visual experience, such as a performance, a painting, or a
motion picture. This message is usually about life, society or human
nature. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored
in a work.StyleXP is a
computer program designed to modify the graphical user interface of
Windows XP. As of version 3.19 features include modifying themes,
explorer bar, backgrounds, logon screens, icons, boot screens,
transparency, cursors and screensavers.WindowBlinds is a computer
program that allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface.
It has been developed by Stardock since 1998, and is the most popular
component of their flagship software suite, Object Desktop.TweakVista
is a software tool for Windows Vista that allows modification of
various OS-specific functions, most notably the settings surrounding
the Desktop Window Manager, User Account Control and startup
programs.SkinStudio (previously known as BuilderBlinds) is a software
tool by Stardock used to create skins for their WindowBlinds,
ObjectBar, WebBlinds and PocketBlinds programs, as well as Koala Player
and Windows Media Player.
