What does it mean when there isn't enough room to run a program?

My desktop tends to go blank and when I try to open programs such as Excel or Word a message comes up saying there isn't enough memory to run. Anyone know what could fix this? Also I opened iPhoto and it asked if i wanted to open iPhoto or iPhoto, not knowing the difference, I picked the first one and almost all of my photos were gone.

there are a couple of ways to fix this.
1) run less applications at one time, meaning make sure they are truly closed and not just off.
2) get a ram upgrade. this can be done by yourself or by taking it to an apple store.

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