All visitors are logged and counted. Click on this icon to view the visitor-statistics. The grand encyclopedia of computer terminology This encyclopedia is compiled by produkties.uithuizen.net This explains the most common computerterms which you can encounter. This list was compiled from several sources. It does not explain HTML commands in detail because for this purpose another encyclopedia is available.The most recent update of this document can be found at: http://www.uithuizen.net/encyclopedia/terms.php Choose a list of terms you want to see .A-.Z   0-9   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z Type a term you want to search for: and You want more information? Well click on these links: Random House Personal Computer Dictionary i      i-link   IWon 118 items available in this category i-link I-Link is used by Sony to connect certain devices to each other. I-link can be seen as a digital serial interface which enables bi-directional communication of digital video- and audio data between devices which are equipped with i-Link connections. It can also play a role in controlling a device with an i-Link connection by a device with the same connection. I-Lookup Known spyware or adware. I-Lookup.abeb Known spyware or adware. I-Lookup.GWS Known spyware or adware. I-lookup/Drbr Known spyware or adware. I-Lookup/GlobalWebSearch Known spyware or adware. I/O Acronym for Input/Output. Any transfer of data between a computer and an external device. IAGold Known spyware or adware. IamBigBrother Known spyware or adware. Ibero Dialer Known spyware or adware. IBISToolbar Known spyware or adware. IBM International Business Machines; a well known American company that produces computers; It has set the standard to which all computers need to comply in order to communicate correctly with other computers or devices. IC Acronym for Integrated Circuit; A single semiconductor component containing from two to millions of discrete components (e.g. transistors). IChoose Known spyware or adware. ICM Acronym for Internet Communications Manager. ICM is designed to provide Internetworking for XNS-based LANs through the use of asynchronous communications line. ICMP Acronym for Internet Control and Message protocol. The ICMP, a special TCP/IP protocol, is a special-purpose set of messages that are used between Internetwork nodes to resolve problems in packet processing. icon A clickable graphical symbol, which can start an application. ICR Acronym for Interrupt Code Register. A register containing all the interrupt-code flags for the system. ICT Acronym for Information and Communication Technology, which reflects that the border between Information Technology (IT) and Communication Technology is disappearing. ID 1) Acronym for IDentification. 2) Acronym for IDentifier. ID8525 Known spyware or adware. IDDE Acronym for Integrated Development and Debugging Environment. IDE 1) Acronym for Integrated Development Environment. 2) Acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics. A type of disk drive interface which essentially extends the PC´s expansion bus all the way to the drive and places the drive controller on the disk drive itself. IDI Acronym for Initial Domain Identifier. First part of an URL like: http, ftp, news etc. IDIV Acronym for Integer DIVide. IDL Acronym for Interface Definition Language. A meta-language for describing computer and network-based algorithms and/or protocols. It is implementation independent. idle Time that a computer or active application has no task. The modern computers are so fast that the computer is almost continously in an idle state IE Plugin / Tinybar Known spyware or adware. IEAccess Known spyware or adware. IEDial Known spyware or adware. IEDriver Known spyware or adware. IEEngine Known spyware or adware. IEFeatures Known spyware or adware. IEHelper.dll Known spyware or adware. IEHost Known spyware or adware. IEMonit Known spyware or adware. IEMonit.Adult Known spyware or adware. IEPlugin Known spyware or adware. IEPlugin / OnlineDialer (SunInfo) Known spyware or adware. Iesar Known spyware or adware. IESearch Known spyware or adware. IESpeaker Known spyware or adware. IETF Acronym for Internet Engineering Task Force. Workgroup that determines protcols for and solves problems on the WWW. IETray Known spyware or adware. IGA Acronym for Integrated Graphics Array. IGC Acronym for Integrated Graphics Controller. IGetNet Known spyware or adware. IGetNet / IGN Keywords Known spyware or adware. IgetNet/ClearSearch Known spyware or adware. IGP Acronym for Interior Gateway protocol. The routing protocol used in the gateways of a TCP/IP internetwork to obtain the shortest path routes through the Internet. image 1) A picture created from individual pixels (dots). 2) A copy of the important files on a harddisk. imagemap An image on a website which is clickable. The result is dependent on the position in the image that is clicked upon. IMAP4 A new mailing protocol. It is considered to be the follow-up of POP3. IMesh Known spyware or adware. IMG Acronym for IMaGe. IMISERV Known spyware or adware. IMR Acronym for Interrupt-Mask Register. The register that holds the interrupt mask. INC Acronym for INCrement. IncrediFind Known spyware or adware. IncrediFind variant Known spyware or adware. INDOR.E Known spyware or adware. Inet-Traffic Known spyware or adware. InetSpeak Known spyware or adware. information highway See Internet. information retrieval Searching for information with a search program that uses databases. INIT 1) Acronym for INITialization. 2) Acronym for INITialize. INMOTA Known spyware or adware. INOR-A Known spyware or adware. INSPIR.11 Known spyware or adware. INT 1) Acronym for INTeger. 2) Acronym for INTernal. 3) Acronym for INTerrupt. 4) An interrupt request signal. See IRQ. 5) Acronym for INTernational. Organization Domain name. interactive Refers to computer programs, online services, and "Interactive TV" whereby the user can make inputs which direct subsequent delivery of services. interface An electronic buffer zone between two components of a computer system like the computer and a device; it is also a device that is used to relay the communication between two parts of a computer system. Interfun Dialer Known spyware or adware. interlace 1) A method of refreshing the image on a computerscreen. This method refreshes only one half of all lines at the same time, first the even numbered lines, later the odd numbered lines, which causes the well known "flashing" of the screen. 2) A method to send picture data over the Internet. When a picture is interlaced, the following occurs: After one sixty-fourth of the picture is downloaded, you can see a general image of what the picture looks like. As more of the picture is downloaded, the resolution improves until the whole picture is displayed. Internet A world wide network of computers that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that are connected via telephone lines, on which you can login with a modem (see also WWW). It was setup in the 1960´s by the American Army (ARPANET). You can connect through it via certain companies (providers). Internet Marketing Toolbar Pro Known spyware or adware. Internet Optimizer Known spyware or adware. InternetAlert Known spyware or adware. InternetBillingSolution Known spyware or adware. InternetDelivery Known spyware or adware. InternetSpy Known spyware or adware. InternetWasher Known spyware or adware. InterNIC An organisation that has a vast amount of information about Internet. It also manages the distribution of domain names. interpreter A program which analyzes and executes each line of source code in succession, without looking at the entire program. The advantage of interpreters over compilers is that they can execute a program immediately. InTheKnow Known spyware or adware. Intranet A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kind of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. intruder Individual or software program that enters a computer system without authorization. Intruder Alert Known spyware or adware. IntSfTx Known spyware or adware. INVASION.A Known spyware or adware. invert To change the normal appearance of an image or text to its opposite. IP Acronym for Internet protocol. The lower level (transport layer) of the TCP/IP protocol suite. See also TCP, TCP/IP. IP address The same as IP number. IP Number Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g.: 165.113.245.2. Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number - if a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet. Most machines also have one or more Domain Names that are easier for people to remember. IPCP Acronym for Internet protocol Control protocol. IPInsight Known spyware or adware. IPR Acronym for Intellectual Property Rights. The protection of content and ownership, primarily in the area of digital media. IPX Acronym for Internet(work) Packet eXchange. A low-level layer of Novell´s NetWare networking software. IPX handles addressing and routing issues. See also SPX. IR 1) Acronym for InfraRed 2) Acronym for Information Retrieval. IRC Acronym for Internet Relay Chat. Basically a huge multi-user live chat facility. IRC DDoS bot Known spyware or adware. IRC trojan Known spyware or adware. IRC.ALADINZ.C Known spyware or adware. IRCBOT.B Known spyware or adware. IRCBOT.C Known spyware or adware. IRCBot.G Known spyware or adware. IRCBot.H Known spyware or adware. IRCINTER.A Known spyware or adware. IRQ Acronym for Interrupt ReQuest line; A hardware line connected to the interrupt controller chip which signals that a CPU interrupt should be generated. ISA Acronym for Industry Standard Architecture; 16-bit bus-design for IBM-AT and compatibles, for which it is necessary to use DIP-switches on your insert cards in order to set or change adapter-memory addresses. See also EISA. ISDN 1) Acronym for Integrated Services Data Networks. 2)Acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network. High-speed transmission of any digitized signal--whether voice, video or data--directly over telephone lines. The ISDN lines provide two voice and one packet data circuit over lines previously used for only one voice circuit or one voice-grade data circuit. So ISDN offers efficient use of bandwidth and end-to-end digital transmission. ISearch Known spyware or adware. ISP Acronym for Internet Service Provider. An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually on a commercial basis. ISR Acronym for Information Storage and Retrieval. ISRAZ.B Known spyware or adware. ISTBar Known spyware or adware. IT Acronym for Information Technology. Nowadays is usually spoken about ICT. IWon Known spyware or adware. This encyclopedia is for informational purposes only. All (registered) trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners. No infringement of third party rights intended. The author cannot garantuee that the information presented is complete or that it contains no errors.