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I I-bar, I-beam the shape of the mouse pointer in a text editing environment. See INSERTION POINT. FIGURE 133. I-bar (I-beam) cursor. I-triple-E see IEEE. I2 see INTERNET 2. IA-32  (Intel  Architecture-32) the architecture of the Intel 80386, 80486, and Pentium microprocessors, used on the majority of the computers in existence today. Contrast IA-64. IA-64  [...]

Highlight compatible, but some of the earliest CD-ROM software could read only High Sierra format disks. Highlight 1. to make a menu item prominent (either lighter or darker than the oth- ers) to show that it is selected. In most graphical user interfaces, you can choose the highlighted item by pressing Enter. 2. the lightest [...]

High Sierra format Hierarchical hierarchical arranged in such a way that some items are above or below others in a tree-like structure. Examples of hierarchies include the orga- nizational chart of a corporation, the arrangement of directories on a disk, and the arrangement of windows on a screen (because some of the windows are within [...]

Heuristic FIGURE 128. Helvetica (normal weight) Heuristic heuristic a method of solving problems that involves intelligent trial and error. By contrast, an algorithmic solution method is a clearly specified procedure that is guaranteed to give the correct answer. (See ALGO- RITHM.) For example, there is no known algorithm that tells how to play a perfect [...]

Hard Copy hard copy a printout on paper of computer output. Contrast SOFT COPY, which is a copy that is only viewable on the screen. Hard Disk hard disk a data storage medium using rigid aluminum disks coated with iron oxide. The read-write head travels across the disk on a thin cushion of air without [...]

Green PC grayscale FIGURE 122. Graphics tablet (Photo courtesy of Wacom Technology) 1. a series of boxes filled with a range of black tints from pure white to 100% black. A grayscale is used to test a printer, monitor, scanner, or printing press. 2. (scanner terminology) the range of grays in an image as measured [...]

Graphics Card raster graphics or bitmap graphics, in which the screen or plotting area is divided into a rectangular array of points (called pixels, from “picture cells”), and the computer is told what color each point should be. Computer screens and printers are raster devices, but some graphics soft- ware uses vector-style instructions internally so [...]

Graphics (linear) or have the blend radiate from a central point (radial). See also FOUNTAIN FILL; UNIFORM FILL. FIGURE 120. Gradient fill tool (from Adobe PhotoShop) Grammar Checker grammar checker a part of a word processing program that flags sentences that violate rules of grammar. For example, in Microsoft Word, if you type “They is [...]

Full duplex cedure is to give anonymous as your user name and then type your e-mail address in place of the password. Also remember to use the command binary if the file you are transferring is anything other than plain ASCII text. Figure 119 shows an example of an anonymous FTP session. C:\> ftp ftp> [...]

Free Software Figure 118 shows the appearance of this page when displayed by the browser. If the right-hand frame did contain a large amount of text, the user could scroll through it while the links on the left-hand side always stayed in the same place, making it easier to jump to other sections of the [...]