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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Useful Tech Terms

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
API - Application Program Interface
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Blog - Web Log
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computing
DDR - Double Data Rate
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
EPS - Encapsulated PostScript
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
GPS - Global Positioning System
GSM - Global system for Mobile communication
IDE - Integrated Device Electronics
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ipod - iPod is a portable music player developed by Apple Computer
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
ISDN - Intergrated Services Digital Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
MAC add - Media Access Control Address
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
NIC - Network Interface Card
NTFS - New Technology File System
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
open GL - Open Graphics Library
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
SATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SDSL - Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
TFT - Thin-Film Transistor
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity