Pinstripe Creative - Multimedia Glossary

Text-to-Speech - voice synthesizers that "read" computer text. First used to read screens for blind computer users, text-to-speech is becoming increasingly popular for children's games.
TIFF - Tagged Image File Format, cross-platform file for storing high-quality graphics.
Trackball - Operating like a mouse, a trackball remains stationary while a ball on its top is rolled with the fingers. Because you don't move it around the desk/mousepad like a mouse, it takes up less space.
TrueType - Vector font type from Apple and Microsoft. The character size is adjustable without quality loss
URL - Uniform Resource Locator. The Internet address of a Web resource (page, embedded elements, etc.) understood and interpreted by browsers.
Vector Image - This type of image (as opposed to Bitmap image) is calculated from its dimensions and can be reduced or enlarged without loss of quality.