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 ...
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