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Burn up and burn down charts are visual representations of progress in the scope of a project, showing the amount...
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Deloitte is a global professional services firm that offers auditing, consulting, advisory, and tax services to companies in a variety...
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Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a leading cloud-based project management solution that offers robust features, workflows, and automations to help...
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A product manager is someone involved in all areas of production, including setting strategies; developing products; and working with relevant...
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Lean manufacturing is a modern approach to manufacturing that eliminates process and resource inefficiencies. Becoming lean has grown into an...
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Mobile workforce management (MWM) refers to the tools and software used to manage remote, field, and other employees who work...
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IT Service Management (ITSM) tools are the tools involved in designing, delivering, and managing IT services. These tools support IT...
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What Is a CRM Manager? A customer relationship management (CRM) manager is a person that oversees all customer and client...
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Capacity planning is a process that helps organizations determine the resources needed to meet the demand of consumers. It is...
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Airtable is a no-code, cloud-based tool that helps businesses create custom databases. Companies of all types and sizes use Airtable...
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Basecamp is an online tool that helps teams collaborate, communicate, and manage projects. Teams use Basecamp to keep track of...
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OpenOffice is an open source software for word processing, spreadsheets, and other office-suite applications. The software mainly utilizes the C++...
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Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite software, is a collection of office and productivity applications that connect for increased...
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Clutter is a technology developed by Microsoft for its Outlook email client that helps users automatically organize their Outlook inboxes...
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Microsoft Office Sway is a new application in the Office Suite that provides a cloud-based, touch-enabled toolset for creating interactive...
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According to recent news reports, Microsoft is planning to release a version of its Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Power...
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ProjectLibre is an open source project management software solution developed as an alternative to Microsoft Project. As with other project...
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Joeffice is an open source office productivity suite. Currently in alpha version for Windows, Mac and Linux (or subscribe to...
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An OST file, or offline storage table (.ost) file, is an Offline Outlook Data File that stores a synchronized copy...
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A PST file, or personal storage table (.pst) file, is a Microsoft Outlook Data File that stores a user’s Outlook...
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Online pictures is a new feature in Microsoft Office 365 that lets users use Word to search your albums on...
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Resume Reading is a new feature in Microsoft Office 365 that bookmarks your last position in a document. Users who...
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Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium allows users to access and share documents and other files stored on SkyDrive. When you...
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Office Web Apps are browser-based versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Office Web apps allow users to view...
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File sharing in Office 365 (Microsoft Office) for small business and enterprise users is available using the SharePoint Online environment....
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Microsoft Office 2013 is the follow-up to Microsoft’s Office 2010 office suite. Office 2013 has been developed under the Office...
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Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking and information management application that is part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of applications....
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The Microsoft brand comes with a hefty price tag for small businesses and individual users. Try these free alternatives to...
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A new fork of Oracle’s Open Office open source office suite that was first released in September 2010 by The...
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Formally Office 365, Microsoft 365 is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft that offers well-known applications like Word,...
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Spreadsheets present tables of values arranged...
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Microsoft Office is Microsoft’s ubiquitous office suite for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Office made...
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Open source software offers small businesses the same low costs and flexibility that enterprises enjoy. So why don’t more small...
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Email fax services enable users to send faxes through their email accounts (fax from email) and receive faxes as PDF...
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The ability to send faxes through an email account (fax from email) and receive faxes as PDF attachments (fax to...
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The capability to send faxes through an email account. Sending a fax from email typically requires a service plan with...
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The capability to receive faxes as PDF attachments in your email inbox. Sending a fax to email typically requires a...
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What is Apple Safari? Apple Safari is a Web browser available for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems as well...
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross-platform, open source e-mail client that competes with the likes of Microsoft Outlook and Eudora Mail....
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Microsoft Outlook is an e-mail client and personal information manager (PIM) that’s available as part of Microsoft’s Office suite. Many...
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Also known as webmail, online email service providers enable users to send, receive and review e-mail from their Web browsers....
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What is Financial Software? Financial software is typically described as any type of computer software designed to help individuals or...
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Software designed to help businesses manage inventory, sales, purchasing, shipping and related functions. Inventory management software solutions often work with...
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A tool for remotely collaborating on presentations, conducting training sessions and demos, and working as a team as though all participants are in the same location.
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A presentation tool in the Microsoft Office suite designed to help users create informative slides that can contain text, graphics,...
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What happens when someone sends an e-mail out into cyberspace, and why do e-mails sometimes bounce back? In computer jargon,...
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A feature in many applications, including word processing programs, spreadsheets and search engines that will automatically detect and correct typos,...
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In Microsoft Excel, fill handle is a command that lets you fill data in to your spreadsheet cells, that is...
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A toolbar at the top of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet window that you can use to enter or copy an...
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A feature found in software and applications, that lets you enter a series of numbers or characters in a specified...
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A wizard found in the Microsoft Excel program that takes users step-by-step through the process of creating a chart in...
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In Excel and other spreadsheet applications, the column header is the colored row of letters used to identify each columnwithin...
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In the Microsoft Excel program, “borders” is a built-in tool that lets users access predefined border styles to add a...
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In spreadsheets an array formula is a formula that will perform multiple calculations on one or more sets of values....
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In spreadsheets a calculated column is one that has been formatted to use a single formula that automatically adjusts for...
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In spreadsheets, rows are numbered horizontal groups of cells. Contrast with column, which are vertical rows of cells, usually identified...
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A slang term used in reference to an inexperienced spammer. The reference implies that the person is a low-life who...
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(n.) (1) A method used to break security systems, specifically password-based security systems, in which the attacker systematically tests all...
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Software that is used by spammers to send out automated spam e-mail. Spamware packages may also include an e-mail harvesting...
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An automated process where a bot is used to search Web pages for e-mail addresses. The e-mail addressees are collected...
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A function of some e-mail servers that directs all questionable e-mail to a single mailbox.
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A grassroots nonprofit networked online community that offers local and individual city groups that promote reuse through local gifting among...
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Short for Directory Harvest Attack, DHA is a type of malicious Internet attack where online spammers collect valid e-mail address...
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A malicious act where huge numbers of e-mails are directed to a specific system or a targeted user of that...
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The part of the e-mail address that appears to the left of the @ symbol. In ‘address @ www.webopedia.com‘ for...
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When newsletter or e-mail list subscribers have chosen to unsubscribe from a mailing list, the list owner usually sends a...
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Chain emails are those that, in the body or subject of the message, asks the recipient to forward the email...
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(MUHN-jing) Munging (address munging), is the act of altering an email address posted on a Web page to make it...
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Acronym for Tinn is not Notepad, Tinn is an ASCII file editor intended to replace the default Notepad program distributed...
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A Microsoft Windows Vista feature, formally called Outlook Express in previous Microsoft operating systems. Windows Mail better addresses concerns regarding...
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IP blocking is a form of security used on mail, Web or any other Internet servers to block connections from...
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A publishing system that treats the electronic copy of a document as the “digital master” for both the electronic and...
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SURGINET is one of the most well-known e-mail mailing list for General Surgeons that serves as a forum for academic...
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A form of e-mail spoofing where someone uses your e-mail server to send mass quantities of e-mails. Usually owners and...
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A vCard, or virtual card, is a type of file that functions as an electronic business card. They contain identifying...
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Slang term for spam e-mail address, a person’s secondary e-mail address, which is used for registering to receive newsletters, discussion...
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In e-mail terminology a hoax is a message which is written to deliberately spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
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OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0681). An open file format enables users of varying office...
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A slang term used to describe a person who nags (annoys or torments persistently) through electronic means such as e-mail,...
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In e-mail, a probe message is a type of bounce handling for e-mail address verification. It is commonly used in...
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A Mailbox Management feature found in Microsoft Exchange 2000 and later versions. If you have multiple Exchange Servers and Mailbox...
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A slang term used to describe e-mail spam specifically of adult content or of a pornographic nature. Sporn tends to...
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Short for Non-Delivery Receipt, NDR is an e-mail related acronym. When an e-mail message is composed and sent to an...
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Adapted from the slang term scab (a strike-breaker or one who crosses a strike line to work in place of...
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A whitelist is a list of email addresses, IP addresses, or applications that are deemed safe and allowed to run...
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Short for DNS Based List, DNS Blacklist, or DNS Blocklist. A published list of IP addresses that can be queried...
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Acronym for Right-Hand Side Blacklist. A type of DNSBL that uses domain names instead of IP addresses.
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Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) was originally an anti-spam project where a daemon would check, in real time,...
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An e-mail signature is a block of text that is appended to the end of an e-mail message you send....
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Forward is an option found in an e-mail client, which allows you to forward a received e-mail to another recipient....
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(1) In e-mail, a redirect is an option found in e-mail clients that is similar to a forward, with the...
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Web mail is a Web page interface used to access e-mail through a Web browser. In order to use Web...
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Short for Authenticated Post Office Protocol, it is similar to the POP protocol except that APOP enables your password to...
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Gmail is a free, search-based email (Webmail) service, which is accessible from a Web browser anywhere in the world so...
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Procmail is a mail processing utility for Unix. Procmail helps you filter your e-mail; sort incoming mail according to sender,...
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A device that uses IP networks to transport faxes instead of PSTN as its means of transporting a fax document.
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Acronym for Value Added Network A VAN, or Value Added Network refers to a private network provider that leases communication...
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Piggyback e-mail is a term used in the e-mail marketing industry. A piggyback e-mail is comprised of a third-party advertisement...
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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (acronym for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003) officially came...
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Often referred to as simply “mail server”, an e-mail server is a computer within your network that works as your...
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(f ls poz &-tiv) (n.) The condition in which spam-filtering software will incorrectly identify a legitimate, solicited or expected e-mail...
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(blak list) (n.) In Internet terminology, a generic name for a list of e-mail addresses or IP addresses that are...
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( m l &-pend ing) (n.) The process of merging a database of customer information that lacks email addresses for...
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(adj.) The phrase anti spam (or anti-spam)Refers to any software, hardware or process that is used to combat the proliferation...
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Short for directory enabled network, DEN is a type of network that is managed from a central location. A DEN...
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(b z -en fil t r) (n.) A technique for identifying incoming e-mail spam. Unlike other filtering techniques that look...
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The practice of having multiple e-mail addresses all resolve to a single e-mail address. For example: a small business has...
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Mail relay is often referred to as an e-mail server, a device and/or program that routes an e-mail to the...
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Acronym for Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata, a standard for metadata oriented toward magazine publishers that contains a lightweight...
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An e-mail utility that automatically replies to an e-mail message with a prewritten response when that e-mail comes into a...
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Short for Extended Turn, an extension to the SMTP mail delivery protocol that allows an SMTP server to request from...
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Short for On-Demand Mail Relay, an e-mail service that allows a user to request e-mail from any internet connection by...
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Forging an e-mail header to make it appear as if it came from somewhere or someone other than the actual...
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Abbreviated PIM, a multicasting routing protocol that runs over an existing unicast infrastructure. There are two variations of PIM: PIM-SM...
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(1) A person who is licensed to operate a ham radio. (2) Automatic spam filters classify e-mail as either spam...
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In reference to digital security, nonrepudiation means to ensure that a transferred message has been sent and received by the...
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A shortened form of the word pseudonym, a nym is an anonymous invented name that a person can use in...
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When e-mailing, hard bounce is used to describe an e-mail that has bounced back to the sender undelivered without having...
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When e-mailing, soft bounce is used to describe an e-mail that has bounced back to the sender undelivered after it...
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Short for phase-shift keying, a modulation technique used by modems in which different phase angles in the carrier signal are...
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Acronym for Register of Known Spam Operations, a free-access public register of spam operations that have been thrown off of at least three ISPs for their spamming activities.
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BlackBerry is a line of mobile e-mail devices and services from Research In Motion (RIM). BlackBerry is a complete package...
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Short for message transfer agent, MTA is the program responsible for receiving incoming emails and delivering the messages to individual...
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Short for mail user agent, the software that allows a user to access and manage e-mail, including reading, composing, disposing,...
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ABEND is an Acronym for abnormal end of task. It refers to software crashes or loss. The phrase is derived...
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An easy-to-use online instant messaging program developed by Mirabilis LTD. Prounounced as separate letters, so that it sounds like “I-Seek-You,”...
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The process of adapting software for a particular country or region. For example, the software must support the character set...
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A feature supported by many e-mail clients and news readers that enables you to block out messages from specific individuals....
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Short of Application Configuration Access Protocol, an e-mail protocol being developed by the IETF to complement IMAP4. ACAP supports related...
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Short for blind carbon copy, a copy of an e-mail message sent to a recipient without the recipient’s address appearing...
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(1) Short for Ferroelectric Random Access Memory, a type of non-volatile memory developed by Ramtron International Corporation. FRAM combines the...
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A condition, often an error, that causes the program or microprocessor to branch to a different routine. The terms interrupt...
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A powerful word processor from Microsoft. The program enables you to perform word processing functions.
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Normal postal mail, where an actual physical letter or package is delivered. The term didn’t exist until electronic mail (e-mail)became...
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The internet, coupled with the rise of smart phones, has defined communication for a generation of people. Where letters and...
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An attachment is a file attached to an email message. Many email systems support sending text files as email. If...
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Short for Secure/MIME, a version of the MIME protocol that supports encryption of messages. S/MIME is based on RSA’s public-key...
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To transmit a single message to a select group of recipients. A simple example of multicasting is sending an e-mail...
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Semaphore means a hardware or software flag. In multitasking systems, a semaphore is a variable with a value that indicates...
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The first spreadsheet application, introduced in the late 1970’s. The idea behind VisiCalc was developed by Dan Bricklin, and the...
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An automatic mailing list server developed by Eric Thomas for BITNET in 1986. When e-mail is addressed to a LISTSERV...
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A list of e-mail addresses identified by a single name, such as mail-list@sandybay.com. When an e-mailmessage is sent to the...
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Majordomo is a free mailing list server that runs under UNIX. When e-mail is addressed to a Majordomo mailing list,...
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An application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and enables you to send, receive and organize e-mail. It’s...
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A popular e-mail client developed by QUALCOMM, Inc.
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Short for Internet Message Access Protocol, a protocol for retrieving e-mail messages. The latest version, IMAP4, is similar to POP3...
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POP (sometimes PoP) is an acronym used when discussing email, networking, programming, and video display technologies. Post Office Protocol Post...
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(pronounced as separate letters) Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail...
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One of the most popular word processors for PCs and Apple Macintoshes.
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In spreadsheet applications, a reference to a particular cell or group of cells that does not change, even if you...
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Refers to objects currently being displayed or used. For example, in graphical user interfaces, the active window is the window...
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A function that performs a computation on a set of values rather than on a single value. For example, finding...
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A comment attached to a particular section of a document. Many computer applications enable you to enter annotations on text...
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To add something at the end. For example, you can append one file to another or you can append a...
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In spreadsheets, a mode in which all cells are recalculated whenever a value changes. Automatic recalculation ensures that the spreadsheet...
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Compatible with earlier models or versions of the same product. A new version of a program is said to be...
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In computing, clear means to erase. Clear the screen, for example, means to erase everything on the display screen. Clear...
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(1) On a display screen in character mode, a column is a vertical line of characters extending from the top...
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In programming, a constant is a value that never changes. The other type of values that programs use is variables,...
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To remove an object from a document and place it in a buffer. In word processing, for example, cut means...
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(n.) In the PC world, the term was originally used for a file created with a word processor. In addition...
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Short for electronic mail, email (or e-mail) is defined as the transmission of messages over communications networks. Typically the messages...
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Sometimes called text editor, a program that enables you to create and edit text files. There are many different types...
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In word processing, an embedded command is a sequence of special characters inserted into a document that affects the formatting...
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In word processing, a header that appears only on even-numbered pages.
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) (1) A space allocated for a particular item of information. A tax form, for example, contains a number of...
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Common computing definitions for fill: (1) In graphics applications, to paint the inside of an enclosed object. Typically, you can...
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1. (n.) A searing e-mail, bulletin board or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh,...
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(1) An equation or expression. (2) In spreadsheet applications, a formula is an expression that defines how one cell relates...
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Most text editors and word processors have two text entry modes from which you can choose. In insert mode, the...
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To place an object between two other objects. Inserting characters, words, paragraphs and documents is common in word processing. Note...
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(1) A name. (2) For mass storage devices, a label is the name of a storage volume. It is sometimes...
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A primitive type of editor that allows you to edit only one line of a file at a time.
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A spreadsheet program designed for IBM-compatible personal computers by Lotus Corporation in 1982. Lotus 1-2-3 was the first publicly available...
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(1) A symbol, name, or key that represents a list of commands, actions, or keystrokes. Many programs allow you to...
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)A feature supported by many word processors that enables you to generate form letters. To use a mail-merge system, you...
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An area in memory or on a storage device where e-mail is placed. In e-mail systems, each userhas a private...
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In spreadsheet programs, a mode in which formulas are not recalculated until you explicitly (manually) run the recalculation function. Compare...
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Short for Messaging Application Programming Interface, a system built into Microsoft Windows that enables different e-mail applications to work together...
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A filter that selectively includes or excludes certain values. For example, when defining a database field, it is possible to...
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The use of computer systems to execute a variety of office operations, such as word processing, accounting, and e-mail. Office...
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To copy an object from a buffer (or clipboard) to a file. In word processing, blocks of text are moved...
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(1) In client/server applications, to send data to a client without the client requesting it. The World Wide Web is...
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In spreadsheet applications, one or more contiguous cells. For example, a range could be an entire row or column, or...
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In spreadsheet programs, recalculation refers to computing the values of cells in a spreadsheet. Recalculation is necessary whenever you change...
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In spreadsheet applications, a reference to a cell or group of cells by indicating how far away it is from...
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To insert a new object in place of an existing object. The term is used most often in connection with...
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A feature supported by most word processors that lets you replace a character string (a series of characters) with another...
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The term return refers to moving to the beginning of the next line in a text document. Word processors utilize...
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A program that checks the spelling of words in a text document. Spell checkers are particularly valuable for catching typos,...
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A spreadsheet is a table of values arranged in rows and columns. Each value can have a predefined relationship to...
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(v) To have a specific functionality. For example, a word processor that supports graphics is one that has a graphics...
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A special character that can be inserted into a text document. Different programs react to tab characters in different ways....
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A spreadsheet program that allows you to arrange data as a stack of tables, each of which has the same...
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Variable length refers to anything whose length can vary. For example, in databases, a variable-length field is a field that...
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In database management systems, a view is a particular way of looking at a database. A single database can support...
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Voice mail may refer to digital email systems that support audio. Users can leave spoken messages for one another and...
A word processor lets you create, format, and share polished documents, far beyond what a basic text editor can do....
