Digital Dictionary

Technology is moving so fast that we mere mortals have trouble keeping up with the Digital language. This glossary of terms may help:

eBook: electronic Book. It’s a PDF but “e-Book” is more descriptive.

eMovie: electronic Movie.  An “MPEG-4," or m4v, which will play on any computer. Not a DVD, which will play on a DVD player or a computer if it has a “DVD player” program installed. Converting an m4v into a DVD is explained on the Information page.

App: Application; Apple’s way of saying Program.

PDF: Portable Document Format (The best-known PDF implementation is Adobe PDF.) If you don't have a PDF reader on your computer, you can download one for FREE from the internet. Find out how to transfer a PDF (eBook) to any tablet or device on the Internet.

Digital: 1s and 0s; on or off; electronic language that allows your computer to read, write and store any kind of information, visual or audio.

MB: Megabyte a measure of amount of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity; megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes;

GB: 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.

CD: Compact Disk. Stores Digital information; will hold 700 MB or 80
minutes of music.

DVD: Known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. Looks the same as a CD but it will hold 4.7 GB or 120 minutes of music or movies. Also it is an optical disc storage media format.

JPG: Or JPEG; an Image file format. Photos made from dots. “Cubes” or “stair steps” when you enlarge it too much. Looks like a photo.

MPEG-4: Also known as m4v: Will play on any computer. MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data.

Video coding format. Looks like a movie or Video but a much smaller file than a DVD. That’s why we don’t offer a DVD download of our e-Movies, videos, to you. ( A m4v, 60 min. eMovie is about 500 MB, or ½ GB. A DVD of that same eMovie is 2 GB. The download time would be 4 times longer.)  We will mail you a DVD of any e-Movie upon direct request. (Contact us) for 14.95 + 3.95 S/H.

The internet will give you the directions you need to upload any of our eBooks from your computer to any other device you have.