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Light Light is a form of energy that has two aspects: An electromagnetic wave aspect A corpuscular aspect (photons) The light emitted by... Beginners > Video |
IT The word "informatique" is a neologism made by contraction of the words "information" and "automatique". The French word... Beginners > Computer science |
Creating a LAN If you have several computers, it may be worthwhile to connect them in order to create a local area network (LAN). Setting up such a... Beginners > Practical notes |
Digital Audio Sound is vibrations in the air; that is, a series of rising and falling pressures in the air, deviating from the average, which is... Beginners > Audio |
Introduction to Office Automation The term office automation refers to all tools and methods that are applied to office activities which make it possible to process... Beginners > Office software |
Introduction to Spreadsheet Concepts A spreadsheet (or spreadsheet program) is software that permits numerical data to be used and to perform automatic calculations on... Beginners > Spreadsheet |
History of the Internet In 1962, as Communism grew stronger, the US Air Force asked a small team of researchers to create a military communications network... Beginners > Computer history |
MP3 MP3 ("MPEG Audio layer 3") is a lossy audio data compression format, developed by the International Organization for Standardization... Beginners > Audio |
Computer representation of colour In order to be able to handle colours correctly and to exchange colorimetric information it is necessary to have the means to... Beginners > Video |
Spreadsheets - The Excel Interface Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet in the Microsoft Office office suite. To start it, simply click on the appropriate icon in the... Beginners > Spreadsheet |
Computer - History The history of the computer owes its existence to the fact that people, who are lazy by nature, have always sought to improve their... Beginners > Computer history |
Installing a network card The goal is to set up a network in order to exchange data or play games on the network. Thus, it is necessary to install a network... Beginners > Practical notes |
Connecting several computers to a network on Windows In order to configure each computer, you need only go to the control panel, then double-click on "network connections", and then right... Beginners > Practical notes |
Ogg Vorbis Ogg Vorbis is an audio data compression format developed by Xiph.org. As with the MP3 format, it's a form of compression which reduces... Beginners > Audio |
CIE / Lab (L*a*b) coding Colours may be perceived differently depending on individuals and may be displayed differently depending on the peripheral display... Beginners > Video |
Spreadsheets - Worksheets Spreadsheets display data and formulas in a table form (lines and columns) called a worksheet. A worksheet is made of lines (numbered... Beginners > Spreadsheet |
History of the hard drive The first hard drive was invented in early 1956, at the request of the US Air Force, by the company IBM. It was called the RAMAC 305... Beginners > Computer history |
Worksheet - Cells A "cell" is the intersection between a line (horizontal) and a column (vertical) on a worksheet. Thus, the name of the line combined... Beginners > Spreadsheet |
Sharing an Internet connection on Windows XP If you have a LAN (two or more computers connected in a network, i.e., each has a network card), of which one is connected to the... Beginners > Practical notes |
AAC (m4a) AAC (Audio Advanced Coding) is an audio data compression format developed by the Fraunhofer Institute in cooperation with AT, Nokia,... Beginners > Audio |

