Chapter 4 Specialized Application Software

Chapter 4  Specialized Application Software

Introduction

•    Specialized applications make it possible to perform advanced tasks at home.

•    Home users can create Webs sites, work with graphic images, and create music or art.

•    Robots now provide security
and assistance in homes.

•    Competent end users need to
be aware of specialized
applications

–    Graphics programs

–    Audio and video editing software

–    Multimedia

–    Web authoring

–    Artificial intelligence

Graphics Programs

In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer.

Audio and Video Software

1.    Audio editing softwar

This audio editing software is a full featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac OS X. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings then add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

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2. Video editing software

  Video editing software, also known as Non Linear Editing (NLE), is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. NLE systems replace traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analogue video tape-to-tape machines

Multimedia Programs

Multimedia is media and content that uses 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 use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.

Web Authoring 

(1) (adj.) A category of software that enables the user to develop a Web site in a desktop publishing format. The software will generate the required HTML coding for the layout of the Web pages based on what the user designs. Typically, the user can toggle back and forth between the graphical design and the HTML code and make changes to the Web page in either the design of the accompanying code.

(2) (v.) To design and create a Web site, from writing the site's underlying code to writing the text to managing the site's upkeep.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"^[2] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.^[3] John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956,^[4] defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines