Ally’s Digital Media Blog

Current Trends in Digital Media include:
You Tube (where anyone can upload a video). There are many people who have online shows who broadcast on You Tube. I watch one regularly called “Fast Lane Daily”
Websites such as My Space and Facebook - these are community websites and make money from advertisements.
Mobile Technology such as […]

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Before I go into the management side of Digital assets, I thought I would start from the beginning and answer the question:
Just what are Digital Assets?
Digital assets are content and/or media which is digitally stored that is of value to a person or an organisation. These files could include documents, video files, audio files, […]

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World Wide Web

“The above image illustrates in 3-D the actual domains and connections of the world wide web. Colors have been added to represent .edu, .gov, .com, etc. domains. I’ve always seen the web as bubbles - some large, some small - and vectors - thick or thin. This is the best graphic device I’ve […]

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Thumbnail
A thumbnail is the term used to describe a miniature version of a slide or picture. A perfect example of this is when you are searching in your computer files you can view via thumbnails and this will show a tiny picture of the image or document.
Tiff File
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is a […]

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Quicktime

QuickTime is a multimedia architecture developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows, and other platforms. It allows your computer to work with real-time movies, sounds, and high-quality compressed images.
QuickTime applications include the following:

QuickTime Player for playing, interacting with, or viewing video, audio, virtual reality (VR), or graphics files

QuickTime Pro for high-end […]

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OSP (Online Service Provider)
On the Internet, OSP (online service provider) has several different meanings.
The term has had some currency in distinguishing Internet access providers that have their own online independent content, such as America Online (AOL), from Internet service providers (ISPs) that simply connect the user directly with the Internet. In general, the companies sometimes […]

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Microsoft
www.microsoft.com
Founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest and most influential companies in the personal computer industry. In addition to developing the de facto standard operating systems — DOS and Windows — Microsoft has a strong presence in almost every area of computer software, from programming tools […]

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Kai’s Power Tools from Wikipedia
Kai’s Power Tools are a set of API plugins created by Kai Krause that were designed for use with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photopaint. Kai’s Power Tools were sold to Corel when MetaCreations was closed.
The phrase Kai’s Power Tools is often abbreviated to KPT.
There are various versions of Kai’s Power Tools. […]

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Image Capture

Image Capture is an application program that enables users to upload pictures from digital cameras or scanners which are either connected directly to the computer or the network. It provides no organizational tools like iPhoto but is useful for collating pictures from a variety of sources with no need for drivers. It achieves this […]

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Google
Podcast - Edition Two - Google
GIF File
The Graphical Interchange Format (GIF) is one of the most widely used image formats on the web. GIF files are recognizable by their .gif file extension. GIF is suitable for images with sharp edges and relatively few gradations of color, such as line art, cartoons, and text. You can […]

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