Appendix Glossary Q

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Glossary - Q

QIC - (Quarter-inch Cartridge) a popular type of backup data storage that uses magnetic tape.

Quark - Makers of the immensely popular "QuarkXpress" page layout program, arguably the king of professional layout and design software (with apologies to Adobe Corporation).

Query - A question, usually one presented to a database or search engine to find a file, Web page, product or service.

Queue - Pronounced "Q" a waiting line where elements of many varieties are sorted and are waiting to be processed. For example, a number of printing jobs may be "queued up" waiting to be printed. The printer takes a single document at a time and prints it.

QuickTime - QuickTime is the name of the digital video file format created as a cross-platform standard Apple Computing. Macintosh or Windows users who have installed the QuickTime playback software (available free of charge from Apple) can view any digitised video and animations that are saved as QuickTime files. QuickTime is also a popular method of embedding motion graphics into websites, claiming responsibility for most of those delightful vacation video clips on so many people's home pages.

QuickTime VR - (QuickTime Virtual Reality) an upgraded version of QuickTime developed by Apple that allows users to experience 3D photographs and other graphical images using a mouse to zoom in and out, rotate and otherwise manipulate a wide variety of shapes and forms.

Quit - To exit an application by properly saving work and shutting it down.