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Released on November 16, 2011, Google Play Music was a website and app that allowed users to stream, download, purchase, and store music and podcasts. Both streaming subscriptions and individual songs could be purchased using a debit card, credit card, PayPal, or using Google Play gift cards. In September 2020, Google shut down Google Play Music, as its features and content were moved to YouTube Music. All former Google Play Music subscribers can find their libraries on the service by logging in with the same Google account....

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a non-profit organization founded in 1998. It is responsible for IP (Internet Protocol) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, and generic and country-code TLDs (top-level domains). How is ICANN pronounced? ICANN is an acronym that’s pronounced as eye-can. See the domain suffix listing for a full list of domain suffixes approved by ICANN. Does ICANN handle individual IPs? No. It would be impossible for any single company or organization to handle the billions of different IP addresses....

Error message generated by invalid data, a logical programming flaw, or an input error. For example, if a computer has a floppy disk, CD, or hard drive in the computer that’s not bootable, when booting the computer you will receive an invalid system disk error message. Error, Invalid page fault, Programming terms Related information POST troubleshooting steps. How to fix boot error “PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable”.

RetroArch is an open source emulator for “retro” computer architectures such as the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. It acts as a front end for the LibRetro API, a development interface that allows programmers to create emulators and multimedia applications. RetroArch supported platforms Platforms that support RetroArch include: Microsoft Windows macOS X Android Jailbroken iOS Blackberry 10 Raspberry Pi OpenPandora Playstation 3 Xbox Xbox 360 GameCube Nintendo Wii Playstation Portable Game terms, Software terms

RoHS, or Restriction of Hazardous Substances, is a European standard for preventing the use of hazardous materials in electrical and electronic equipment. These standards are set forth to protect public health and the environment and the first use of the RoHS symbol was used on March 1, 2007. RoHS classified substances Currently, there are ten substances classified under RoHS: BBP (Butyl Benzyl Phthalate) Cadmium DBP (Dibutyl Phthalate) DEHP (Bis (2-Ethylhexl) Phthalate) DIBP (Diisobutyl Phthalate) Hexavalent Chromium Lead Mercury PBB (Polybrominated biphenyls) PBDE (Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers) United States RoHS-like restrictions Any company that manufactures or sells electrical or electronic products must be RoHS compliant if they want to do business in countries with RoHS restrictions....

Short for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI is a nonprofit institute founded in 1984 that computes scientific data that might reveal intelligent, alien life in the universe. For example, such data might include electromagnetic radiation received from outer space, which, when analyzed, may indicate an intelligent source. [email protected] On May 17, 1999, the [email protected] project was introduced to the public by the SSL (Space Sciences Laboratory) at the University of California, Berkeley, USA....

Short for transparent operating system, TOPS is a LAN setup designed by Sun that enables IBM compatible, Apple, and Sun computers to interoperate. Computer acronyms, Network terms, Operating system terms, Transparent Related information Network and network card help and support.

Uninstall is removing a program and its associated files from a computer hard drive. The uninstall feature differs from the delete function in that it safely and efficiently removes all associated files, whereas delete only removes part of a program or selected file. What happens to a program when it is uninstalled? When uninstalling a program using the uninstaller, all files copied to the computer are removed, and system setting changes are removed or reverted to their defaults....

VAX, also known as Virtual Address Extension, is the name of a 32-bit ISA (instruction set architecture), and a line of computers based on that architecture. It was designed by DEC in the mid-1970s to better execute programs written in high-level programming languages. It replaced the previous PDP ISA, and ran the VAX/VMS operating system, also developed by DEC. The first VAX computer was the VAX-11/780 (shown right), released on October 25, 1977....

The VCEG, also known as the Video Coding Experts Group or Visual Coding Experts Group, is an organization of computer scientists and image processing experts. They are responsible for defining and standardizing various ways to encode, decode, transmit, and display digital images and video. It is responsible for video standards, such as H.264, and image standards, such as JPEG. CCITT, Computer acronyms, Group, Image Processing, Video terms Related information Video card help and support....

If you’ve ever had to unzip a file, you’re likely familiar with either WINRAR or WinZip. Both are utilities designed to either compress or extract data from compressed files, but there are differences in performance and price beyond that. In this article, we’ll go through some of the major differences between the two programs in terms of features and also a quick look into price and performance. What is WinRAR? It has become something of a running joke to ask if people paid for WinRAR....

If you are thinking of starting your own blog, and you want to use WordPress as your blogging platform, you have a couple of options. You can use either WordPress.com or WordPress.org. Both methods are based on the WordPress content management system (CMS) platform. However there are major differences between the two that you should understand before you make a decision. WordPress.com is a platform hosted and managed by the WordPress company, while WordPress....

Difficulty Difficult Steps 44 Time Required 1 - 3 hours Sections 12 Hard Drive 1 step Bottom Vent 6 steps Faceplate 3 steps Top Vent 6 steps Lower Case 9 steps Eject Button 1 step Upper Case 2 steps Optical Drive 4 steps Cooling Fan Duct 1 step Dual Fans 2 steps Motherboard 5 steps GPU Heat Sink 4 steps Flags 0 BackXbox 360 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites...

Difficulty Moderate Steps 11 Time Required 25 minutes Sections 3 Battery 5 steps Volume Buttons 4 steps Power Button 2 steps Flags 0 BackZTE Lever Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction What you need Step 1 Battery Remove the SD card and the Sim card from the device. The Sim and SD cards are not shown here as our device did not come with them....

Eject may refer to any of the following: With removable disk drives, eject means to disengage the medium (removable disk), so it may be removed. For instance, with a CD-ROM drive, ejecting the disk opens the tray. Or, if the CD-ROM drive uses slot insertion, ejecting will mechanically reposition the CD, so it sticks out of the slot. The picture is a close-up example of an eject button and icon on the front of a CD-ROM drive....

Shorthand for et cetera (Latin for and the others), etc. is used when listing similar related items. For example, if you’re listing numbers, etc. could be used as shown below. Numbers include 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Looking at the example above, you would understand in addition to the numbers listed, the list continues as 5, 6, 7, and may go on forever. Chat terms

More commonly called an external drive, external storage is storage that’s not part of the internal parts (external) of a computer. These drives often connect to the computer using USB, eSATA, or FireWire connection. The picture is an example of a Drobo and an example of a popular external storage solution. Examples of external storage devices The following list is of external storage devices used over the evolution of the computer....

A Gantt chart is a type of chart that helps visualize a schedule for a project. Each task of the project is listed in the vertical axis, and days, weeks, or months are listed in the horizontal axis. The Gantt chart shows a bar for each task, with the length of the bar corresponding to the start and end week or month. The completion percentage of each task may be listed next to the bar for each task....

LCD may refer to any of the following: Short for liquid-crystal display, LCD is a flat display technology used in laptops, cell phones, calculators, digital cameras, and flat screen displays. The LCD is made of two sheets of a flexible polarizing material and a layer of liquid crystal solution between the two. An LCD is available as an active-matrix, dual-scan, or passive-matrix display and are most common with laptop computers, like the Dell laptop computer shown in the picture....

Developed by Intel, Lotus, and Microsoft, LIM, also known as LIM 4.0 or LIM-EMS, was a method of raising the 1 MB limit of accessible memory in MS-DOS. It was able to accomplish this task while keeping support for EMS and EEMS. EEMS, EMS, Memory terms Related information Memory (RAM) help and support.