The Lexicon of New Media Terms

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Terms beginning with "G"

Gannett Corp.: A major media corporation which owns USA Today and several newspapers around the world, including nine dailies in Wisconsin.
gateway: A computer that handles moving data from one network to another.
gaussian blur: Making an image appear out-of-focus.
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format, a compressed graphics file format which creates a smaller file size by only remembering a limited number of colors for use in the image.
GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freeware graphics editing program for UNIX and X operating system; also called "The Gimp."
Gnutella: A software application for peer-to-peer sharing of data between computers (typically MP3 music files).
Google.com: A popular Web search engine.
Gopher: An Internet information tool created at the Univesity of Minnesota which has since been displaced by Web-based sites and browsers.
grayscale: Using only shades of gray to represent an image; sometimes called "black-and-white," which is inaccurate since 16 to 256 different colors of gray are involved..
GUI: Graphic user interface, any way of working with a program using icons or other images instead of just line-code commands; GUI is pronouced "gooey".
guru: An expert on a particular topic; for example, Jakob Nielsen is often called a "usability guru."

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