is used to restore disk and corrupted files | CRASHED DISC RESCUER | |
make a PC easier for disabled users to use | ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM | |
rewrites data so that it takes less space on disk | COMPREHENSION UTILITIY | |
lets you watch DVDs, play music and listen to the radio on the Web | MEDIA PLAYER | |
materials that emit light and produce colours when they are acrivated by electron beam | PHOSPHORS | |
a flat-panel display which works by emitting light through a special liquid | LCD Screen | |
the smallest element in a displayed image | PIXEL | |
the space between a displaye's pixels | DOT PITCH | |
the frequeny at which a minitor renews its image measured in Hz | REFRESH RATE | |
technology in which each pixel has its own transistor switch | TFT | |
means of measuring the brightness of image | CANDELA | |
shine in an unsteady way | FLICKER | |
space between lines or surfaces that meet measured in degrees | ANGLE | |
device creating images with millions of tiny mirrors placed on a chip | DLP | |
the main transmision patch handling the major data traffic, connecting different LANs together | BACKBONE | |
a hardware and software combination used to connect the same type of networks | BRIDGE | |
a device for converting digital sygnals to analogue sygnals and vice versa to enable a computer to- | MODEM | |
a network contained within a small area e.g. a company department | LAN | |
a special computer that directs communicating messages when several netwoek are connected together | ROUTER | |
a main computer that provides a storage area for data files on a network | SERVER | |
An interface that enables dissimilar networks to communicate sych as two LANs based on different --- | GATE | |
Graphical user interface | GUI | |
a system that allows a user to interact with a computer using a combination of inputs such as spee-- | MULTIMODAL INTERFACE | |
software assistant that performs tasks such as retrieving and delivering information and automating | INTELLIGENT AGENT | |
Text to speech | TTS | |
a project of the Massachusetts Institute of technology's Artifical Intelligence Lab | The INTELLIGENT ROOM | |
set boundaries for the beginning and end of a message | BRACKETING | |
Matchematical calculations based on the contents of data | CHECKSUM | |
transmision mode in which both computers send and receive at the same time | FULL-DUPLEX | |
transmision mode in which each computer takes turns sending and receiving | HALF-DUPLEX | |