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GlassWire is Internet security software for personal computers running Windows. The purpose of GlassWire is to restrict devices from using the network to improve Internet connection speeds. When using GlassWire, users can monitor which devices are connected to their Wi-Fi network, and what they are accessing on the Internet. The software also allows users to place firewalls on a computer or home network. GlassWire is available in three versions and costs between $39 and $99 a year, depending on the version....

Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming that indicates either the type of object or the way it should be used. It was originally proposed by Charles Simonyi, a programmer at Xerox PARC in the early 1980s. There are two variations of Hungarian notation: Systems and Apps. They both involve using a special prefix as part of the name to indicate an object’s nature. Systems Hungarian notation In Systems Hungarian notation, the prefix represents the actual data type of the object....

When referring to network or data security, integrity, also know as data integrity, is data that is intact. More specifically, data that may only be accessed, modified, or copied by those who are authorized to do so. Any data with lost integrity is said to be compromised. Parity, Security terms Related information Computer security help and support.

Short for light-emitting diode, LED is a semiconductor that illuminates when an electrical charge passes through it. LEDs are commonly green, amber, or red, but they can be an assortment of other colors as they’ve become popular with case lighting. Below are examples of how an LED could be used with a computer. Keyboard LEDs An example of an LED is the led status indicators on your keyboard for Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock, as shown in the picture....

Originally released in June 2010, the Galaxy S is a flagship brand of Android smartphones created by Samsung. The Galaxy S series is one of Samsung’s most high-end phone lineups, but other options, like the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Z Fold, are also available. Galaxy S phones use Samsung’s One UI operating system on top of the latest version of Android. Versions of the Galaxy S Galaxy S - The original Samsung Galaxy S, released in 2010 with 512 MB RAM....

Short for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, XSLT is a language that uses style sheets to transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Computer acronyms, Internet terms, Software terms, XML, XSL Related information The official XSLT website.

Everyone with a network router at home also has a local area network (LAN), which makes it easy to share resources and data between devices. Modern networks are also blazing fast, making large file transfers over LAN feasible. Maybe you’ve got a large NAS (network attached storage) full of media and documents. Perhaps you’re working with other collaborators and need to shuffle information between devices locally. Sadly, even modern networks run into performance issues and file transfers can get bogged down....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 5 Time Required 15 minutes Sections 1 Remote Control Motherboard 5 steps Flags 0 BackX-Street STR Viper 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 Remote Control Motherboard Turn off the remote control. Flip power switch to the off position. Remove the battery from bottom of the remote control for further safety measures....

Difficulty Easy Steps 11 Time Required 15 - 20 minutes Sections 2 Hard Drive 9 steps Disc Drive 2 steps Flags 0 BackXbox 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 Hard Drive Make sure your Xbox is safely unplugged and is laying on a flat, stable surface. Make sure your Xbox is safely unplugged and is laying on a flat, stable surface....

Difficulty Difficult Steps 10 Time Required 15 minutes Sections 4 Cover Plate 6 steps Directional Pad 1 step Joystick Caps 1 step Top Motherboard 2 steps Flags 0 BackXbox One Wireless Controller (Model 1708) 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 Cover Plate Slide the battery cover toward the top of the controller to remove it....

Difficulty Easy Steps 3 Time Required 3 - 7 minutes Sections 1 Cosmetic Cover and Top Cover 3 steps Flags Member-Contributed Guide An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff. BackDell XPS M2010 MXP061 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction The information and pictures in this guide have been taken from the service manual from this device, listed on the iFixit product page....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 9 Time Required Suggest a time?? Sections 4 Power and Volume Switch 2 steps Speaker 2 steps Leg Spring 3 steps Leg Motor 2 steps Flags 1 Slice and Dice The steps in this guide should be split up and made into a series of prerequisite guides. BackZoomer Show Pony Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide...

Eyefinity is an AMD technology that enables multiple displays to work from one video card using a special driver that reports to Windows. One big display is visible instead of multiple displays. With earlier video cards, this would require multiple video cards in the computer or other third-party hardware devices. Dual monitor, Video card terms Related information How to have multiple monitors or displays on a computer. How to split one large display into two or more....

Disk fragmentation or file fragmentation describes a group of files scattered throughout a hard drive platter instead of one continuous location. Fragmentation is caused when information is deleted from a hard drive and small gaps are left behind to be filled by new data. As new data is saved to the computer, it is placed in these gaps. If the gaps are too small, the remainder of what needs to be saved is stored in other available gaps....

FM may refer to any of the following: When referring to the radio or an audio signal, FM is short for frequency modulation invented by Edwin Armstrong in 1933. FM is a method of transmitting a signal of greater quality at ranges of 80 MHz to 108 MHz at a shorter distance compared to AM. The Internet domain suffix .fm is short for Micronesia. Short for frequency modulation, FM encoding is a method of recording data to a floppy disk or hard drive platter....

Short for high-definition television, HDTV is a generation of television first approved by ATSC on December 24, 1996, that offers higher resolutions and clarity. HDTV resolutions The HDTV standard defines display resolutions of: 1080i (1,080 lines of pixels in an interlaced configuration) 720p (720 lines, progressive) 1080p (1080 lines displayed progressively) HDTVs are displayed on a wider screen because of the 16:9 aspect ratio although not all wide screen displays are capable of displaying HD....

Developed by Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah, and first released in 2012, Julia is a high-level programming language used in scientific computing. It can be utilized for statistics computations and data analysis, similar the R programming language. One of its strongest features is multiple dispatch — a type of polymorphism that allows functions to behave differently based on the data type of the arguments they receive....

Code-named Utopia, Microsoft Bob was introduced to the public on January 5, 1995, at CES by Bill Gates. It is the user-friendly interface pictured here. The program was originally designed to be used with Microsoft Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 and is no longer developed or used today. AI, Clippy, Microsoft Agent, Software, Software terms

Do you want to design flyers, brochures, or cards, and publish it on your own? Microsoft Publisher might be the program that’s best suited for this if you are on Microsoft 365. It bears a resemblance to Microsoft Word but is more related to the commercial Adobe InDesign (part of Adobe’s expensive Creative Cloud) and free Scribus software. Publisher is a desktop publishing software with features for page layout and design....

The Oracle of Bacon is a website created by Brett Tjaden and now maintained by Patrick Reynolds. It allows users to find the shortest link between Kevin Bacon, an actor, and another actor or actress of the user’s choice. The website periodically downloads data from a large Internet movie database system to keep its data current. It then uses the data to map links between Kevin Bacon and other actors and actresses by way of movie titles and other actors or actresses....