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Featured Featured Guide Difficulty Moderate Steps 26 Time Required Suggest a time?? Sections 5 Lens 5 steps Camera Assembly 11 steps Viewfinder Lens Assembly 7 steps LCD Assembly 1 step LCD 2 steps Flags 1 Featured Guide This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. BackZeal Optics iON Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide...

Facebook Poke is a Facebook feature that lets you poke any of your friends on Facebook as a way of saying “hello.” After getting poked on Facebook, the notification shown to the right appears on your Facebook page that lets you poke back or remove the poke. To poke a friend, visit their profile page and click the Poke button in the top-left corner of the screen. Internet terms

Interapplication communications may refer to any of the following: Alternatively known as an Apple Event, IAC (Interapplication communications) is the method of how the Apple Macintosh computer and software programs communicate with one another. IAC is also shorthand for In Any Case, IAC is an acronym used in chat rooms and message boards. Below is an example of how this could be user in chat. IAC, I still think you’re a good person....

Short for Intensity Red Green Blue, IRGB is a method of encoding sixteen unique colors in four bits. It is used in CGA and later video adapters in MS-DOS character mode. The four bits represent red, green, blue, and an intensity bit indicating an alternate brightness of the color combination. The sixteen possible colors created by IRGB encoding are listed in the following table. Color terms, Computer acronyms, Intensity bit, RGB, Video terms...

When referring to computers, jargon is a word understood and used by other computer users familiar with the subject. For example, words like SPAM and sneakernet are computer jargon, lingo, or nerdspeak that describe something about computers and are words someone unfamiliar with computers may not know. Chat slang, Shorthand, Slang, Technobabble, Term Related information What are the most important computer terms I should know? Computer Hope glossary of over 15,000 computer and technology related terms....

Short for quality of service, QoS is an ability of a product to provide a certain service by the settings in the product. For example, a user could assign different levels of QoS on a network router, allowing certain users or network traffic to have more or less priority than other users. In other words, an administrator may set a higher priority on internal network traffic opposed to external traffic....

Remotehelp may refer to any of the following: When connected to a computer over FTP, remotehelp is a command that grabs any help information from the remote computer. Remote help is synonymous with Remote Assistance. Related information How to use FTP from a command line. Linux ftp command and information. What FTP programs can I use to send and receive files? FTP help and support. FTP, Software terms

The right to repair is the idea that once a consumer purchases a product, they can repair and make changes to it without the manufacturer. If a company has the exclusive rights to repair its products, it can charge much higher prices. Apple, for example, requires a lengthy and expensive certification process to train independent electronic stores to fix their smartphones and laptops with official parts. When companies don’t support the right to repair, it encourages people to create more e-waste by buying new products when official support is discontinued....

Swift is a programming language developed by Apple. It’s used to create computer programs and mobile apps for iOS, macOS, and Linux, and for the Apple Watch and AppleTV. It was first released on June 2, 2014. Swift is similar to, and highly compatible with, the Objective-C programming language. It was designed to help developers increase application fault tolerance and system safety. For example, Swift programmers cannot use null pointers except with a special data type called “UnsafePointer....

South by Southwest, often shortened as SXSW or SouthBy, is an annual trio of festivals held in Austin, Texas, showcasing art, culture, and technology. Launched in 1987, its a music, film, and interactive festivals are held in March of each year, hosted by SXSW Inc. In 2018, the reported attendance of SXSW was 161,000 for music, 72,872 for film, and 75,098 for interactive. That year, the festival generated approximately $350 million for the city of Austin....

The Windows Recovery Environment, also abbreviated as WinRE, is a collection of tools included with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.x, Windows 7, and Windows Vista. The tools in WinRE help you recover or repair your Windows system if it does not boot or start up properly. How to access WinRE The Windows Recovery Environment runs if your computer fails to boot twice in a row. On the third boot, WinRE starts automatically instead of Windows....

YT may refer to any of the following: Shorthand for you there, YT is used in chat and online games as an easy way to see if someone is at their keyboard. YT is an acronym sometimes used for YouTube. When referring to a domain name, .yt is the domain suffix for Mayotte. Chat terms, Computer acronyms, Game terms

Difficulty Very easy Steps 2 Time Required 1 minute Sections Why! NV41MZ Bottom Cover Replacement 1 step Why! NV41MZ Right CPU Fan Replacement 1 step Flags 3 Bullets! Better coordination with markups and the color/type of bullets will help make this guide more clear! Member-Contributed Guide An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff. Better Introduction Improve this guide by completing or revising its introduction....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 6 Time Required 10 minutes Sections 3 Battery 1 step why! W650SZ Bottom Cover Replacement 1 step Keyboard 4 steps Flags Member-Contributed Guide An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff. Bullets! Better coordination with markups and the color/type of bullets will help make this guide more clear! Better Introduction Improve this guide by completing or revising its introduction....

The powercfg command allows users to view and modify their Windows computer’s power plans and settings. Using powercfg provides similar control over the power settings as does the Windows Power Options utility. Availability Powercfg is an external command available for the following Microsoft operating systems as powercfg.exe. Availability Powercfg syntax Powercfg examples Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Windows 11 Powercfg syntax Windows 10 and Windows 11 syntax POWERCFG /COMMAND [ARGUMENTS]...

Difficulty Moderate Steps 14 Time Required 15 - 20 minutes Sections 3 Back Cover 5 steps Face Plate 7 steps LCD Display 2 steps Flags 2 Inconsistent Images Updating the images on this guide to be more consistent with the prerequisites would increase its awesomeness. Needs Better Images Better photos will improve this guide. Help out by taking, editing, or uploading new ones! BackZune Flash 2nd Generation Full Screen Options...

Godwin’s Law is a law created by Mike Godwin in 1990 that states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. While difficult to prove scientifically, anecdotal evidence (unfortunately) seems to support the law’s validity. Computer laws, EFF, Forum, Internet terms, Meme, Newsgroup

Released in 2017, Google Lens is an image recognition technology that identifies objects and display information about them using Google Search. Google Lens singles out items using artwork, text, and other distinctive features, and then searches the Internet to find matches. Google Lens can be used with your smartphone’s camera to identify real-life objects. It can also be used to identify things on your screen using screen capture. Google Lens is accessed through the free app for iOS and Android, the default camera app on compatible Android devices, or through Google Assistant by selecting the Lens icon and asking “Ok Google, what is on my screen?...

Interactive describes software or hardware whose behavior changes in response to interaction with a human. For example, a mouse is considered an interactive hardware device because a human uses it to control a computer. With regards to software, this web page is considered interactive because you can click its hyperlinks to move to other areas or pages on the site. Hardware terms, Interactive program, Interactive video, Non-interactive, Software terms