tech term of the day

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PartitionMagic

A utility for hard drive organization from Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (www.symantec.com) that allows disk partitions to be changed on the fly without destroying existing data. By making multiple smaller drives out of a large one, their cluster sizes are lowered and waste less space.

Officially called "Norton PartitionMagic, " this highly praised product runs in Windows and supports FAT (DOS, Windows 95, 98 and ME), NTFS (Windows NT, 2000, XP) and EXT 2/3 (Linux) File Systems. Without a product like this, the DOS Fdisk utility is used to repartition a hard disk, and all data are lost in the process. PartitionMagic was originally introduced in 1995 by PowerQuest Corporation, Orem, UT, a company acquired by Symantec in 2003.

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DTV

Short for Digital Television, it is a digital television standard that is fast replacing analog (or NTSC analog) television. DTV enables broadcasters to offer television with movie-quality picture and sound. It also offers greater multicasting and interactive capabilities. While many use the terms Digital Television (DTV) and High-definition Television (HDTV) interchangeably, they are, in fact, two different things. DTV refers to the actual TV signal being transmitted digitally (instead of as an analog signal). DTV offers several broadcast options, two of which are considered to be HDTV formats. Some of the more common DTV standards include:

480i: -the digital version of current analog signals.

480p: - provides a sharper image and looks closer to HDTV than regular television. Today all DVDs can be played on EDTV

720p: - provides an image close in quality to 1080i, but allows 480p signals to be broadcast as well.

1080i: - the most detailed HDTV image available from broadcast TV

The numbers above represent the vertical resolution, while the letters represent interlaces or progressive scan (i) (p). For example, 1080i represents 1080 vertical resolution, interlaced.

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MOEMS

Short for Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems, also known as optical MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and generally taken to include waveguides, diffraction gratings, moving mirror and moving bubble devices. The primary goal is to endow systems with the capability to alter or modulate the path of a light beam, and, in some cases, to temporally or spectrally modify the light beam. The most common micro-optical elements are those that reflect, diffract or refract light. MOEMS is the manipulation of light in one, two, or three-dimensional space

M©+square SG

Just a feedback.

The terms which are featured, are very jargon based. Not very reader friendly.

Cheers Wink

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Hmm, I have edited them to be as reader friendly already. Have to try harder. Smile

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scroll

To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window.

chanff8 SG

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
[b]scroll

To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window.[/b]

Mighty Mouse Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

I hate Apple mouse. Don't have left and right click and scroll. Laoya.

chanff8 SG

Haha my school iMacs all use that single button mouse. But I like the Mighty Mouse, very smooth scrolling but takes time to get use to middle-clicking, I have to click on the little ball directly Confused

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32-bit driver

A driver written for a 32-bit environment. It often refers to drivers written for Windows 95/98 or Windows NT in contrast to 16-bit drivers written for DOS and Windows 3.x.

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Surprisingly, the Mighty Mouse is still using single click.

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group key

An encryption key that is used by everyone on the network or in the vicinity. Contrast with an "individual key" that is used for only one user, also called "pairwise key," "per-station key" and "unique key. " Group keys and individual keys may be used in tandem. For example, group keys may be used for broadcasting to everyone, while individual keys are used for transmitting to one user.

chanff8 SG

it has a right click, and a centre click as well Wink

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Internet e-mail service

There are two ways to get e-mail over the Internet. One is by using a mail program that is installed in your computer, and the other is Web-based e-mail that is accessible from any Web browser. Most of the time, you can get your mail via both methods.

For more about information, refer to this thread:

http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=170642

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nagware

Software that periodically prompts the user to register the product. Similar to a nag screen for shareware, nagware is also built into commercial software. Also called "annoyware. "

chanff8 SG

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
[b]nagware

Software that periodically prompts the user to register the product. Similar to a nag screen for shareware, nagware is also built into commercial software. Also called "annoyware. "[/b]

so thats what its called... rather irritating i have to agree

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If not, it is not called nagware. Nag at you to register....

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shunt

To divert, switch or bypass.

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