Software

= Software =

In this topic we will talk about SOFTWARE associated with a typical computer systems. We will also look into Social Impact and ethical issues of software.

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 * 1. Software developments for disabled people. **

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 * Blind within the work place.

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 * Siri


 * [|How does voice recognition work?]
 * [|Issues with Siri]

2. Software with limited by language availability.

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4. Difference between Command line interfaces and GUI Interfaces.

5. Difference between,[| Site License], Individual Licenses (proprietary), shareware, public domain, and open source.

6. Software that were custom built (macros, templates and wizards) and commercially available software.

7. Web-Based software
 * You can look at this[| program], it is a bug tracking software and a project management software that is web based.

8. Reason why we have different types of files.(data compression/decompression, lossless and lossy )  **Lossy JPEG (left) and lossless RAW (right) photographs.** ("Top 10 Myths and Misconceptions." //Mrrandom on HubPages//. Hubpages. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .)

Make sure that you will find the difference between the following: Rich Text Format (RTF), Text (TXT), Portable document format (PDF), Spreadsheet format (Excel .xlsx), Joint Photographer Experts Group bitmap (JPG/JPEG), Portable Network Graphics bitmap (PNG), Comma-Separated Values (CSV), Hypertext Markup Language (HTM/HTML)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">9. Different file [|COMPRESSION].

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Work for today 24 Nov 2011.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1. Read this [|Article] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">2. Identify Stakeholders, Area of Impact (Stand 2), IT System involved in the triangle. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">3. Discuss the Social and Ethical issues in the article and make sure you are relating all parts of the triangle. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">4. List down Terms that are new to you, this part will not be marked. But we will talk about it during class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Find possible software that can be used for hacking/tracking.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">NO SOURCES NO GRADES.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Due 28 November 2011, Monday. Submit your work in Turn it in.