Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Mini-Glossary

These three pages contain a list of the terms you are most likely to run into when working on your Mac. If you don’t find a word here, check the index because I probably explained the term in the main body of the book. For an incredibly extensive and up-to-date resource of definitions, check www.webopedia.com (unfortunately, though, I don’t guarantee you will always understand the definition). Also check Sherlock (Chapter 31).

bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes

All of the terms listed to the left refer to size. It might refer to the size of a file, or how much space that file takes up on a disk. For instance, a small file like an icon might be 3K (kilobytes), and a large file like a high-quality photograph might be 15MB ...