Categorias: Todos - software - entertainment - design - programs

por alexander Hiltbrunner 13 anos atrás

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What is a Computer?

A computer is an intricate machine that encompasses both hardware and software components. The hardware includes elements such as the central processing unit (CPU), memory like RAM, and storage devices such as hard drives.

What is a Computer?

What is a Computer?

A very nice, orderly, visually interesting map.

Some of these topics need rather more balance as they reflect your personal interests rather strongly!

Software

Entertainment
Design

Is design software part of entertainment?

I think it would be a good idea to do a new mindmap for the different types of software

Paint

With paint you can paint new pictures

How the program looks

Photoshop

With Photoshop you can change or fake already existing pictures

A older Cover

Videos

Realplayer

A player that is nearly the same as the flashplayer but is not that common anymore

Flashplayer

The most common player, also used on Youtube

The Cover

Divx Player

A player that i mostly used for online watching of films

How the player looks

Games

Shooter

Battlefield

Call of Duty

Strategie

The Settlers

Age of Empires

Gameplay

Office Programs
Apple Programs

Iwork

The Apple version of Microsoft Office

Iwork box

Microsoft Programs

Word

With Word you can write texts

Excel

With Excel you can make tables of all kinds

Cover

Power Point

Power point is a program with which you can set up presentations

cover

Hardware

Output Devices
Speakers

Through the speakers the sound comes out of the computer

Normal Speakers

Headphones

The same as speakers but only you can hear the sound

Monitor

Is the squared thing which stands on your desk and shows you what happens on the computer

A Monitor

Input Devices

Can you group some of them in terms of what kind of input device they are? e.g. pointing device?

Mr McDermott

Game Controller

A Gamecotroller

Trackpad

A trackpad is normally only used by laptops

because you don't have a mouse with a laptop

Trackpad on a Laptop

Microphone

With a microphone you can record speaches or talk to other persons in the internet

Mouse

the mouse is the thing with the two buttons to klick

You can move the cursor around with it

A Computer Mouse from Microsoft

Keyboard

The Keyboard is the boar with all the letters on it

A Keyboard

CPU
Reading Devices

CD Drive

The CD drive reads CD with data on it

some of them can also burn data on new CD's

CD Reader

USB Plug

You can plug a USB stick in it and use the data on the stick

Disk Drive

The disk drive is a bit older, it was used to read floppy disks

Floppy Disk Drive

Processor

is the thing that work in your computer generally you can say that it calculates things

Common Proccessor

Memory

Ram

5 GB Ram

Harddrive

the harddrive is the main storage of your computer, all the data is saved on it.