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UI vs UX   Often times than not, words UI and UX are used interchangeably, and that used to be acceptable few years back. But now, with the rapid advances in computational technologies and the high penetration of the mobile market, have forced us to come out of the closet and use these terms more precisely than... 

Megabyte vs Megabit   Megabit and Megabyte are two units used to measure the amount of information in computer systems and network systems. Megabit Bit is the basic measure of the information used in the computing and telecommunication technology. It is an abbreviation for the Binary Digit. A bit can assume... 

Kruskal vs Prim   In computer science, Prim’s and Kruskal’s algorithms are a greedy algorithm that finds a minimum spanning tree for a connected weighted undirected graph. A spanning tree is a subgraph of a graph such that each node of the graph is connected by a path, which is a tree. Each spanning... 

Binary vs ASCII   Binary code is a method used in computers and digital devices, to represent and transfer text, symbols, or processor instructions. Since computers and digital devices perform their fundamental operations based on two voltage values (High or Low), every bit of data involved with a process... 

Header vs Footer   If you read a nice type set book, you will always note a series of word segments and numbers running both at the top of the page and bottom of the page all along the book. These contain general information about the book such as the author, the title of the book, and the page numbers. The... 

Multimedia vs Hypermedia   Both multimedia and hypermedia are common terms in our technical jargons, and though their meaning may seem to coincide, there is a significant difference between the two concepts. Multimedia is the presentation of text, graphics, animations, audio, and video using computers in... 

Encoder vs Decoder   In modern technological environment, transmitting, storing, and interpreting information plays a key role in the operation of all the electronic based systems, whether it is a digital device or an analog device or a computer system or a software system. In the general sense, an encoder... 

Platform vs Environment   Computer platform and computer environment are two terms used in computer science, which are closely related. Therefore, their meanings are almost synonymous in common use, but more explicit definitions show the differences of the terms and their usage. According to Oxford Advanced... 

Bitmap vs Vector   In computer graphics, Bitmap and Vector graphics are two file formats that are used to store digital images. The bitmap format uses an array of bits with reference to the position of the each bit; that is, a map of bits to represent the image. Bitmap belongs to raster graphics image format... 

DOC vs RTF   Both DOC and RTF are proprietary document file formats used by Microsoft for software. The RTF was introduced in 1987 as a cross platform document interchange format and the DOC format was originally used as a file format for plain text documents and was used in Microsoft WordPerfect word processor... 

GIF vs JPEG   The JPEG and GIF digital image file formats are used in computers and related devices. Both Image file formats are extensively used in world wide web, and JPEG is also used in digital photography. JPEG and GIF produce images by the use of a bitmap, hence called raster graphics images. Producing images... 

JPEG vs JPG   JPEG or JPG is an image file format used in computers and devices related to digital imaging, which bears the name of the committee that developed it, Joint Photographic Experts Group. More precisely JPEG is a standard for image compression using lossy compression methods. JPEG committee was formed... 

Login vs Log On   Do you login or do you log on to your computer and different websites? This is a question that is difficult to answer for even experts. In fact, there are many who thing that both are synonymous and either can be used to describe the act of getting inside a website or being allowed to use... 

Hard Copy vs Soft Copy These days, banks ask account holders whether they want to have a hard copy or a soft copy of their bank statement. Internet Service Provider cajole customers to accept soft copies of their bills rather than pressing for hard copies. So, what is the difference between a hard copy and a soft... 

ICT vs Computer When computers first arrived on the scene, they were bulky, and did not have as much power and efficiency as they do today. There were far fewer applications and uses of computer, and being expensive, they were mostly used in big organizations or where there were specific and specialized uses... 

Bandwidth vs Speed Bandwidth and speed are two parameters to refer the performance of systems. When considering the internet connections, sometimes, the terms ‘Bandwidth’ and ‘Speed’ are used with the same meaning of data transfer rate (or bit rate). It is related to the amount of data being transferred...