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 t      TAB   TZET 101 items available in this category TAB Short for TABulation character. tag(line) Appendix. TANG Known spyware or adware. TAPLAK Known spyware or adware. task An active application including the hereby used systemresources. taskoverview A program used by some OS´es that indicates which tasks are active. taskswap A change in priority for a task from foreground to background or reverse. TASTYRED Known spyware or adware. TCP Acronym for Transmission Control protocol. A higher level (session layer) of the TCP/IP protocol suite. See also IP, TCP/IP. TCP/IP The protocol suite originally developed by DARPA for use on its ARPANET network, which is now known as the Internet. See also IP, TCP. Tdak Searchbar Known spyware or adware. TDMA Acronym for time division multiple access. It is a technology used in digital cellular telephone communication that divides each cellular channel into three time slots in order to increase the amount of data that can be carried. TDMA was first specified as a standard in EIA/TIA Interim Standard 54 (IS-54). IS-136, an evolved version of IS-54, is the United States standard for TDMA for both the cellular (850 MHz) and personal communications services (1.9 GHz) spectrums. TDMA is also used for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT). telecom Short for telecommunication. teleshopping The possibility to order products via Internet. teleworking The possibility to work at home. Telnet A program that makes it possible to use a remote computer as was it your own. Your own computer is more or less a workstation of the host computer. terminal A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry. Usually you will use terminal software in a personal computer - the software pretends to be (emulates) a physical terminal and allows you to type commands to a computer somewhere else. terminal emulation software that enables an intelligent computer device to mimic a dumb terminal in order to communicate with another computer. Also, terminal emulator software is often equipped to allow a computer to connect with other terminals that use different protocols by "emulating" the terminal it wishes to reach. terminal server A special purpose computer that has places to plug in many modems on one side, and a connection to a LAN or host machine on the other side. Thus the terminal server does the work of answering the calls and passes the connections on to the appropriate node. Most terminal servers can provide PPP or SLIP services if connected to the Internet. textbox A small box within a dialog screen in which you can enter options, parameters of commands, depending on what the dialogue asks for. TheLocalSearch SmartBar Known spyware or adware. THEUG Known spyware or adware. thread On USENET and other electronic forums, a message and its follow-up postings. THREADSYS Known spyware or adware. throughput A measure for datatransfer, expressed in DTR. thumbnail A small representation of a picture. thumbs.db Database file used within the Windows operating system. It contains the so called thumbnails of pictures. TIBS / VX2/d Known spyware or adware. TIFF Tagged Image File Format. See .tif. tilde This symbol: *~*. timeout The time period that an application will wait for a certain event to occur before it produces an errormessage; used by printers. Timesink Known spyware or adware. Tiny Spy Agent Known spyware or adware. Tinybar Known spyware or adware. titlebar The tiny rectangular at the top of a screen with gives some information about the screen: for example the name. TITOG Known spyware or adware. TITOG.C Known spyware or adware. TLS Transport Layer Security. Successor of the SSL protocol. It is a cryptographic protocol that provides secure communications on the Internet TOADCOM.A Known spyware or adware. TOFAZZOL Known spyware or adware. toggle An option or command that switches a value between "on" and "off". token ring A LAN arranged in a loop. Before the computer sends data to any of the other computers on the ring, a token (a data packet that makes the rounds thousands of times per second) must be received by an attached terminal or workstation. Only then will the terminal or workstation start transmitting. toolbar Row of boxes, often at the top of an application window, which control various functions of the software. The boxes often contain images that correspond with the function they control. * In most Microsoft Windows programs the toolbars can be adjusted, hidden, or displayed by clicking on View at the top of the window and clicking Toolbars. * If you have have had your standard toolbars replaced in your Internet Browser and/or have had toolbars installed in your Internet Browser without your permission it´s likely you´ve been infected with spyware / malware. ToolbarCC Known spyware or adware. ToPicks Known spyware or adware. TopMoxie Known spyware or adware. TopSurfer Known spyware or adware. TORVEL Known spyware or adware. TotalVelocity Known spyware or adware. touchscreen A device/technology that enables a user to touch a computer monitor to make a selection. tower A certain type of cover of a PC, with in it all components. Townews Known spyware or adware. TPE Acronym for Twisted Pair Ethernet. aka: 10Base-T. TPS108 Known spyware or adware. TR/SCKEYLOG.SPY.20 Known spyware or adware. track A circleshaped datastream on disk; analogue to a LP, although it is not spiral shaped. TradeExit Known spyware or adware. Traffichog Known spyware or adware. Transparency Transparency is a method that allows areas of a picture to appear transparent, therefore revealing the background. There are several methods of transparency, including alpha channel transparency. Transponder Known spyware or adware. TrekBlue Known spyware or adware. Trickler Known spyware or adware. Troj.Small Known spyware or adware. Troj/Pulez-A Known spyware or adware. Troj/Search-A Known spyware or adware. TROJ_ATAKA.A Known spyware or adware. TROJ_BUDDY.E Known spyware or adware. Trojan horse A quasi-virus and therefore not discovered by all virusscanners. It´s an malicious program that does something else than the user expects. Trojan.Bargains Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Digits Known spyware or adware. Trojan.DLoader Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Download Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Gaslide Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Linst Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Norio Known spyware or adware. Trojan.PSW.DNSTroj.12 Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Simcss Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Startpage Known spyware or adware. Trojan.StartPage.G Known spyware or adware. Trojan.URLResolver Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Win32.Starter Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Win32.Startpage Known spyware or adware. Trojan.Win32.StartPage.gf Known spyware or adware. Trojan/Dialer Known spyware or adware. TrojanDownloader Known spyware or adware. TrojanDownloader.Win32.VB.aa Known spyware or adware. True Color Color display in 16.7 million colors. TrueActive Known spyware or adware. TRYNOMA Known spyware or adware. TSR Acronym for: Terminate and Stay Resident; a program that remains in memory after the first call and which will start after pressing a hotkey. TT Acronym for: True Type; These are typefaces that can be scaled and that will appear identical on the screen and when printed. See WYSIWYG. TTL Acronym for Transistor-Transistor Logic. A common technology for switching circuits in which true is represented by a voltage level of 2.5 to 5 volts and false by a level of 0 to 0.7 volts. TTY Acronym for TeleTYpewriter. TUPEG Known spyware or adware. TUXDER Known spyware or adware. TVMedia Known spyware or adware. TWAIN Acronym for Technology Without Any Interesting Name. An API that provides a standard method for acquiring images in an application. TwainTech Known spyware or adware. TX 4 Known spyware or adware. TX 4 BrowserAd adware Known spyware or adware. TZET 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. 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