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1. Q6

2. HARDWARE
Hardware definition
Hardware are the physical parts used in tools, machinery and other
equipment, the parts are usually the machines, wiring and the other
physical parts of a computer/ other electronic equipment.

3. HARDWARE
Computer (Mac)
During the work I have done for this subject I have used an Apple iMac
G5, This mac is originally from 2004 and was discontinued in 2006,
they are all in one computers built by Apple and the original Apple
Mac was released in August 1988, The founders are Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The memory of an iMac ranges
from 8GB to 32GB and the current cost of an iMac is $1299, they
keyboard and mouse came with the mac and both were good use.
The mac was also used because It housed all the hardware in the
computer. I had to use this for the whole part of my coursework
because I had use use all software that I used for my coursework by
using the Mac

4. HARDWARE
Photography
Camera- Nikon D3100 – Digital SLR
This camera was used becuase the image's it takes are high quality and
would make my magazine look better becuause of the high quality
Backdrop
A backdrop was used because in order to make the images look better a
backdrop was needed and it made them easier to edit because of
the plain background

5. HARDWARE
SD Card reader
The SD card reader was used the transfer data from the camera into the
iMac so that the images could be used, I had to use this to move
photographs that were on the camera onto the iMac by using a SD
Card reader. On the SD card i had to find my images and then add
them onto my desktop and them i would remove the SD Card reader
from my computer.

6. HARDWARE
iPad
An ipad was used because it was used to do work that wasn't completed in
lesson, this was used be ause without it, I would have fallen behind on
work.

7. SOFTWARE
Software definition
Software are the programs and other operating information used by a
computer.

8. SOFTWARE
Photoshop
Photoshop has been heavily used in my magazine for the most part
because it could has been used to edit photographs and create my
magazine, this was important to use because without it I wouldn’t
have a the photo editing system to create a magazine. Using
Photoshop there are many different editing systems i had to use
including cropping an image, making an image black and white.

9. SOFTWARE
Safari
I Had too use safari to find inspiration as well as for the website word
press on which all of my coursework is on

10. SOFTWARE
Powerpoint
Powerpoint was used to answer questions, i used powerpoint is better
to use different ways to answer the questions such as powerpoint or
word is better than just answering it all using one way to answer.

11. SOFTWARE
Word
Word was used to write out the information for my article and this was
used instead of wordpress becuase it would be easier to edit than
using the wordpress and it abled to be emailed back to myself so i
could work on it outside of school.

12. SOFTWARE
Indesign
I used indesign to add the text to article because indesign is more specific
wheras photoshop is more for just editing images, indesign makes it better
where text is concerned. Indesign make it easier to make the text fit in with
my magaxine better than if i had to use photoshop.

13. SOFTWARE
Outlook/Gmail
These were used so i could email my work back and forth from school so i
could get work done outside of school. An example of sork that i emailed
from school is below.