ARPANET: An early name for the Internet.
Author: A person who wrote a program (or book).

Bandwidth: The measurement of the amount of data that can be transported in x time.
BBS: An electronic Bulletin Board System that allowed people to post and read information.
Beta: A test release of a program (beta version).
Bug: A problem in program.
Byte: Also known as binary term, a byte is a measure of data storage. 1,048,576 bytes is equal to 1 megabytes and 1,073,741,824 bytes is equal to one gigabyte. That's a lot of bytes!

CD: Also known as compact disk, disks used to store data such as music, or software.
Crack: To get into someone's computer.
Crippleware: Limiting software's functionality as a purchase incentive.

Database: Also known as DB, it is sort of like a file cabinet inside your computer.
Developer: Someone who develops software.
Diskettes: Also known as floppy disk. (see floppy disk)
Disk Vendor: A person who collects trial versions of shareware puts them on a CD and sells them.
Download: A program you can collect off the Internet.
Download site: A website where someone can download software.

Electronic delivery: Delivering solely through the Internet or email.
Email: An electronic mailing system.

Firewall: A wall between your computer and the internet preventing access to your computer.
Freeware: Free software.
Floppy Disk: Also called floppy or diskette a floppy does the same job as a CD, it stores information, however a CD stores way more megabytes.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol.

Gigabyte: Also known as G or GB it is a measure of data storage. It contains 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 1,024 megabytes.

Hacker: Someone who breaks into computer systems and puts in extra data or uses data.
Hardware locking: A registration method locking software to a user's specific company.
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language.
HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

Internet: A connection of computers and info all over the world.

Megabyte: Also known as M or MB, a megabyte is a measure of data storage. There are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte and 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte.
MILNET: An early name for the Internet.

Network: Computers connected together.

Online Fraud: Purchasing with a stolen credit card.
Online ordering: A secure link allowing purchases on the Internet.
Operating System: An operating system organizes and controls all of the programs you run on your computer.

PC: A Personal computer.
Program: A software application.
Programming language: A language a computer and a human can understand. Some programming languages are binary code, machine code, C, C++, Delphi, GameMaker, and Visual Basic.
Publisher: Someone who distributes software

Registration Company: An online ordering company

Shareware: A kind of marketing method. (see try before you buy)
Software Piracy: Stealing software.
S= =R: S= =R means the Shareware Version must equal the registered version. It was made by the ASP.

Trial ware: Software you can try prior to purchasing.
Try before you buy: A marketing method where a person can use a trial version of the software before buying.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator-web address.
Users: Someone who uses a programmer's software.

Virus: A dangerous computer program that can erase files cause other programs to not function properly, or even open your database to people.

WWW: WWW is World Wide Web abbreviated

Resale Terminology - for purposes of this website the following definitions explain the breakdown of sites we used.

We all love ColorPic's ability to quickly and easily capture colors from the scxreen and make palettes, but wouldn't it be great if we could easily see those palettes in a web browser. Well thanks to "l u c h y x", a ColorPic fan, we now have that ability! You can use the ColorPic Web Palette Generator plugin to automatically create html previews of all your palettes, and also check how the text and background will look.

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What if there was one simple application could help guide your eyes while reading, making digesting long electronic documents easier and more efficient? That’s the core reason behind Line Reader, along with a few bonus features that will make this app an indispensable part of your user experience!

Line Reader addresses a dilemma that we all face at some point – how to manage reading long documents online. If we were reading a book or printed article, we could use an index card to mark our place and guide the path of our vision. Since holding an index card up to your computer screen is impractical, we’ve created Line Reader to navigate you through the rough waters of electronic documentation.

With Line Reader, your mouse cursor transforms into a handy reading aid, taking the form of a horizontal line that you use to track your spot in any online document or web page. You can customize the length, width, and color of your line, as well as invoke a secondary helper line that serves to further emphasize the location of your cursor. One click, and your line flips to the vertical, which is convenient for highlighting entire paragraphs, steps in a recipe, or assembly instructions.

Line Reader runs on Windows XP and Vista.

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Mexico will start a national register of mobile phone users that will include fingerprinting all customers in an effort to catch criminals who use the devices to extort money and negotiate kidnapping ransoms.

Under a new law published on Monday and due to be in force in April, mobile phone companies will have a year to build up a database of their clients, complete with fingerprints. The idea would be to match calls and messages to the phones owners.

Hundreds of people are kidnapped in Mexico every year and the number of victims is rising sharply as drug gangs, under pressure from an army crackdown, seek new income.

The Screen Protractor is a fantastic teaching aid for mathematics and geography as it can be used to measure angles on top of any other image. We've used the protractor in Google Earth allowing students to measure angles between real-life geographical locations.

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U.S. Internet search company Google Inc released software on Wednesday that allows users of mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.

Users in 27 countries will be able to broadcast their location to others constantly, using Google Latitude. Controls allow users to select who receives the information or to go offline at any time, Google said on its Web site.

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Consumer Action identified five ways that consumers often inadvertently spend too much money on cell-phone service.

1. Early Termination Fees
2. When you buy a new phone, perhaps because an old one was lost or stolen, operators typically they are required to start a new contract.
3. Some operators charge $.40 to $.45 per minute for calls that surpass a users monthly allotment for a postpaid plan.
4. Excessive text messaging charges.

Mobile phone giant Nokia threatened to leave its native Finland if a change to laws blocking companies from monitoring employee emails was not introduced, a respected Finnish newspaper said Sunday.

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