Computer Acronyms

— A —

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

— B —
BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

— C —
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

— D —

DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

— E —
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

— F —
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

— G —
GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

— H —
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

— I —
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

— J —
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

- K —
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

— L —
LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode

— M —
MAC - Media Access Control
MB � MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

— N —
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

— O —
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

— P —
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP - Plug ‘n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

— R —
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

— S —
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

— T —
TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - TDK Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

— U —
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

— V —
VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

— W —
WAN - Wide Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

— X —
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

How to Format and Fix Corrupted USB Flash Drives?

Simply right click on your pendrive or usb flash drive in windows explorer and choose format it.

When formatting the flash drive, there is an option called “File System“. Now choose “FAT“. Remember this is not FAT32. After that just click on format and wait.

After that you can continue using your flash drive like normal.

If you encountered any problem, please do share with us.

Generic Volume Cannot Be Stopped Right Now

When you try to remove a USB pendrive by using “Safely Remove Hardware > Safely remove USB Mass Storage device” option, windows should stop all the read and write operations on the drive so that the drive can be safely removed without damaging the files stored inside the drive.

If you encountered this error “Generic Volume Cannot Be Stopped Right Now” messages

Try using the following solution:

This error occur when there are some files located in your pen drive are in used by some running applications. Try closing all such files or applications such as windows explorer and try removing the drive.

If you still cannot remove your usb drives try this second method which require you to download file unlocker utility.

How To Safely Remove USB Pen Drive with Unlocker?

1. Download Unlocker from here and install it on your computer.
2. Right click on your USB pen drive in my computer and select Unlocker.
3. Next, click Unlock All
4. Now you can remove your pen drive normally using “Safely Remove Hardware”

Delete Temporary Internet Files For More Space

If you are one of the regular internet user, make sure you delete your temporary internet files regularly. You can do this by clicking Tools and Internet Options in your Internet Explorer menu. Once you deleted these files, make sure you also delete your Browsing History which is also located there.

How to Protect Your Laptop

Do you worry about your laptop when bringing them along to travel? Here is a solution to secure your laptop. Here are some simple ways to protect your laptop from all sorts of problems from theft to accidental damage. This method will keep your computer as safe as possible without spending another big buck on it.

STEP 1: Record the serial number and store it in a safe place. You should also add the laptop to your home owner’s insurance policy.

STEP 2: Don’t turn your back on your computer when you’re out in public. Don’t even leave the laptop unattended. There are so many laptop thefts around.

STEP 3: When you stay in a hotel, use the safe to secure your laptop. You can also lock the laptop on the bed or desk with a chain and padlock. There are many other notebook locks out there that you can obtain easily.

Good Luck

Problem with Internet Explorer and Firefox

If you have problem running Internet Explorer or Firefox, and want to use Internet Explorer as usual, you can disable all the addons and run IE or Firefox.

Run Firefox Without Extensions
- Go to the Run dialog by going to Start > Run
- Type firefox -safe-mode

Run Internet Explorer Without Addons
- Go to Start > Run
- Type iexplore -extoff

Backup Firefox Bookmarks Online

Since Firefox bookmark is saved in your harddisk under your Firefox profiles, there is no way to access the bookmarks from another computer.

Follow these steps to install the Firefox Foxmarks add-on so that you can backup them online and restore it on another computer.

Step 1: Download the add-on using your Firefox browser http://www.foxmarks.com/

Step 2: Install the add-on by clicking the “install now” button.

Step 2: Install the same plugin to your other computer’s Firefox browser. This add-on allow you to restore the bookmarks on another computer.

Step 3: Follow the Foxmarks setup screen. Enter your username, email address and password to be able to create an account for Foxmarks.

Step 4: At other computers, login to FoxMarks to see the bookmarks uploaded from your previous computer.

Orkut Sms Numbers and Charge On Per Sms Free Alerts

All we Know that Orkut sms is lunched in india but we haven’t used it because we are confused about the charge on per sms by ours Service provider
,Orkut has mention this prise list in which you can get all details on much you will be charged for sending per sms in orkut using yours mobiles phones.If you are still confused get the details from below.

• To Get Orkut SmS Numbers please check the mobile tab on your orkut settings page.
• You can Get Sms Notification Free up to your monthly limit , and Will Only be Charged For Sending Sms i.e 2 Rs (all carriers except MTNL, which is 1 Rs)

If Still have confussion Fell Free To Comment Us ,We are will provide you the best possible information

Send Orkut Scraps through SmS Using Mobile Phones Is Not Free

Orkut have Finally Launched Orkut sms Notification In India after Brazil On Premium Basis ,Now Orkut Users Get Sms on every scrap they received ,Friend Request ,Etc But unfortunately on Charge Basic ,Orkut SMS allows you to stay in touch with your orkut friends Using text messages from your mobile Phone . You can Learn more on Orkut SmS Via Visiting ours post OnOrkuts Now In Mobiles .

To Register yours phones you can visit Orkut mobile Setting Tab and There you can register yours Phones ,Mobile Service Like Spice, Tata , Reliance ,Mtnl ,Aircel ,Bpl Have This Option , Unfortunately Some Other Popular Service Like Airtel Hutch ,vadaphone are Lacking In this area,You can also Go through Orkut Sms Command Through Below Chart.

You can control Orku sms Feature Through Notification section also after Registering yours mobile Phones ,If you still need any Query on this feel free to Comment us yours Query as well as yours problem.

Receive Orkut Scraps on Mobile Phones through m.orkut.com

Imagine when every one is surfing orkut through mobile Phones

,as this is going to be true ,Finally Google launched a mobile version of Orkut at m.orkut.com - this new mobile site lets you read scraps, receive updates from existing friends plus you can approve or decline new friend requests.

You can also navigate the Orkut mobile using keypad shortcuts on your mobile phone

like 3 for Friends, 7 for Scrapbook, 5 for Logout
,6 for My Profile, 1 for Help etc.But for this you must have GPRS Activated in yours Mobile phones , as this is must to surf orkut through mobiles phones,otherwise you will not able to surf orkut in mobile phones

User with No mobile phones can also check this websites directly from there Browser by clicking m.orkut.com as this is available for both mobile and browser.And if you want to use this feature then just login to m.orkut.com through yours mobilephone Enter yours Username and Passward and Enjoy Surfing Orkut Through Mobiles Phones! Remember If you want to Login through Mobiles phones you have to activate GPRS in yours Mobile Phones.

Using Different Font And Style In Orkut

You can Use Alt Command For wriiting In different Fonts

, These fonts are mostly and widely used in Orkut profiles and all social networking profiles ,The reason for Using these fonts is that it make yours Profiles unique and different , These Font Can be used mostly By firefox user The reason behind these is Internet Explore not able to display these fonts In there actual Look .Surfing Orkut through mozilla firefox will give a different look to Orkut and also help you to protect orkut profiles from hackers and viruses ,So to write Name In different Fonts In Orkut and all Social networking profiles follow below Guide.

• Install Stylish Orkut Fonts application
  
  on yours profile ,and from there create stylish fonts and scraps for yours scrapbook , you can also create colorful scraps in one click using that widgets.
• Application is highly popular and is widely used via all orkuters to create stylish fonts ,if you want to use this application then you have to install that application first afterthat you can use that application Click here to install that application.

Hope you enjoy the latest update on this post , if you have any query on above update you can ask me through comments section.

10+ Gtalk Tricks Guides And Tutorials

Gtalk is the Widley Used Messenger all over the Internet ,People are now switching to Gtalk slowly and slowly leaving yahoo messenger due to some enhanced feature.So its necessary for new gtalk users to know more about Gtalk ,for this we have created a short Gtalk Tutorials that will help users while surfing gtalk .

Send Bold Text: Text embedded between two * characters is displayed as bold text. Example: This is a *bold* statement.

Send Italics Text: Text embedded between two _(underscore) characters is displayed as italics text. Example: This is an _italics_ statement

Insert Line Breaks: If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter

Send mail: Press F9 to send a mail to the contact with whom you are chatting

Restore Google Talk Window: Press Windows Key + Esc to restore Google Talk window from system tray

Call a Contact: Press F11 to start a voice call with the chat contact and F12 to end the voice call

Insert Line Breaks - If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

Switch Windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

Length Of A Single Message - A message can be max 32767 characters long.

Use Keyboard shortcuts while talking in Gtalk ,It will make yours work fast and talk Easy ,Below are some keyboard shortks for Gtalk User.

• Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - Selects all the text typed.
• Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
• Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
• Ctrl + F4 - It closes the current window.
• Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
• Alt + Esc - It Minimize the current open window.
• Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray).
• F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.

Nickname & Status Message:You can’t change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

• F11 - It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
• F12 - It cancels a telephonic call.
• Esc - It closes the current window

How To Make Conference Calls:To have conference calls in Gtalk: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of the target add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read

“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex.

Open Second instance of the software on every user’s computer.After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Login to multiple Google Talk accounts simultaneously with a very easy hack. Follow these steps

1. Create a shortcut of Google Talk messenger on your desktop or any other preferred location .(To create a shortcut, right click on your Google Talk messenger application and select Send To–>Desktop(create shortcut) )
2. Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select Properties option
3. Modify target location text “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu to

“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

1. Click Ok and you are done with this .

Contacts: Don’t need to say yes or no when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this). Wierd: The Gmail account ‘user@gmail.com’ can’t be invited as your friend.

Retrieve Find or Hack Lost Password From Firefox and Internet Explore

Clicking Yes remember my password in Firefox is dangerous for anyone who use public Internet cafes and the dangerous thing is, anybody who know this technique can read yours password easily using simple steps . In most cases this type of problem are commom and many hackers use this method to hack passward . Here’s how you can enable or disbale this feature before you surf any public computers .

• How to View anyone stored passwords in Firefox: To retrive all the stored passward in Firefox.Go to Tools > Options >Security > Saved Passwords. And there you have all the passwords that you ever asked Firefox to remember for you.
• To Enable Or Disable Remember me Option from yours Firefox Go to Tools > Options > Security Check or Uncheck Remember passward for sites as per yours requirement , See below screenshot. for details.
• You can also Control remember me passward feature by disable this feature for some website and enabling for some website , Check Exception Tab for more details

How to View stored passwords in Internet Explorer(IE)

Anyone can easily view store passward in encrypted form through Windows Registry database, For this you need to take help of a free 35kb tool called IE PassView.The tool automatically displays a list all saved information ,like passward username In IE.

This feature can be harmful or useful both depending on the user requirement to view secret passwords. To disable or enable this feature in Internet Explore ,Check or uncheck “Prompt me to save passwords” in Internet Explorer.