Application Software/Mobile Apps Flashcards
What software works with end users, application software, and computer hardware to handle the majority of technical details?
System Software
What software is described as end-user software and is used to accomplish a variety of tasks?
Application Software
Application software can be divided into three categories. What are they?
- General Purpose Applications
- Specialized applications
- Mobile Applications (Apps)
___________ includes word processing programs, presentation software, spreadsheets, and database management systems.
General-Purpose Applications
_______ include thousands of programs that are more narrowly focused on specific disciplines and occupations.
Specialized Applications
________ consists of applications designed for cell phones and tablets.
Mobile apps
Where you can download applications to work with your mobile, laptop, and desktop devices?
-app store
- ex) Apple App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store
- Applications are written for their respective device
Is the portion of the application that allows you to control and interact with the program.
-User Interface
-Depending on the application you can use a mouse, a keyboard, a stylus, a finger, and/or your voice to communicate with the application.
Most General-Purpose Applications use a _____ and a _________________ that displays graphical elements called ________ to represent familiar objects.
- mouse
- graphical user interface (GUI)
- icons
The mouse controls a ________ on the screen that is used to select items such as icons.
Pointer
A __________ is simply a rectangular area that can contain a document, program, or message.
Window
The standard GUI system uses a system of three things. What are they?
- Menus
- Toolbars
- Dialog Boxes
_________ present commands that are typically displayed in a _______ at the top of the screen.
- Menus
- Menu bar
__________ typically appear below the menu bar and include small graphic elements called ________ that provide shortcuts for quick access to commonly used commands.
- Toolbars
- Buttons
___________ provide additional information and request user input.
Dialog Boxes
What interface changes based on the needs of the user?
Ribbon GUI
Ribbon GUI uses an interrelated system of three things. What are they?
- Ribbons
- Tabs
- Galleries
________ replace toolbars and menus by organizing commonly used commands into sets of related activities.
Ribbons
________divide the ribbon into major activity areas. Each tab is then organized into _______ which contains related items.
- Tabs
- Groups
Some tabs, called ____________, appear only when they are needed and anticipate the next operation to be performed by the user.
contextual tabs
_________ like dialog boxes, provide additional options and simplify choosing an option showing the effect.
Galleries
Common features of entering/presenting, edition, and formatting documents include:
- Spelling and grammar check
- Alignment
- Fonts and font sizes
- Character effects (ex: bold and italics)
- Edit Options
- Find and Replace
____________ or __________ are add-on programs for a variety of mobile devices, including cell phones and tablets. Sometimes referred to as_______.
- Mobile apps
- Mobile applications
- apps
Traditional applications include:
- address books
- to-do lists
- alarms
- message lists
Popular apps include those for:
- music
- videos
- social networking
- shopping
- games
What is the free-to-play model?
where initial game is free, but more advanced features require and in-app purchase
