Xiaomi Inc. developed the Xiaomi Mi4. It was released on August 2014 as a new addition to Xiaomi’s high-end smartphone line that is popularly used in China and India. Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. The phone’s battery drains quickly, won’t charge at all and is slow to charge. The phone could have not received a full charge because of a faulty charger....
Difficulty Difficult Steps 7 Time Required 7 - 15 minutes Sections 2 Legs 3 steps Chest Senor 4 steps Flags 0 BackZoomer Meowzies 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 Legs Using the Triangle driver remove the four 7.5 mm screws. The two front screws are deeper than the two on the back legs which may cause difficulties....
Close may refer to any of the following: In general, close is the action performed to terminate a program or exit a file. If a file has changed since it was opened and is closed without saving, those changes are lost. If the program closes without performing the close action, this is usually called a crash. How to close an open program To close or exit a program window or application, click the close button (see example below) or use one of the keyboard shortcuts from the tips above....
Consumer may refer to any of the following: A consumer is an individual who buys goods or services for their use. An example of a consumer is a person going to a retail store and purchasing a computer for use at their home. Another example is someone buying goods or services for themself or their family on an e-commerce website. In 2019, consumers in the United States spent $53.119 trillion on goods and services in both physical and online stores....
Defrag is a Microsoft utility first included with MS-DOS 6.0, and in all versions of Windows. It is designed to help chronologically order the data on the hard drive. Defrag places each part of a program together instead of scattered throughout the hard drive, allowing the read-write head to access the data faster on the hard drive. Windows 98 and later includes a version of Defrag that places commonly accessed data at the beginning of the drive....
Also known as click-and-drag, drag-select is clicking in an empty area, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the cursor to another location. This action selects (highlights) everything from the beginning to the end of the drag. In the animated picture, the user clicks next to “back.jpg” and continues holding down the mouse button while moving to the bottom-right to select all nine files. Example of a text drag-select In the box below, click before “Select,” and while holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the right until text is highlighted....
Go, also known as golang, is a computer programming language whose development began in 2007 at Google, and it was introduced to the public in 2009. Go’s three lead developers at Google were Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Their goal was to create a language, loosely based on the syntax of C, which would eliminate the “extraneous garbage” of languages such as C++. As a result, Go does not include some “extraneous” features of other modern languages, such as method and operator overloading, pointer arithmetic, and type inheritance....
Short for Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP is a protocol that replaced UUCP; utilized by USENET to transfer postings between clients and servers. NNTP is defined in RFC 977 and is assigned to port 119 when used through Internet TCP. Computer acronyms, Network terms, Protocol, USENET Related information Network and network card help and support.
NPC may refer to any of the following: Short for non-player character, a NPC or vendor is a character or monster who is controlled by the computer and not a real person. A NPC helps add life to a game by creating artificial players, each with specific abilities and personalities. If you’re playing an online game and encounter another character controlled by a real person, that type of character is called a PC....
Remote access or remote connection is a device capable of accessing a shared resource. For example, a user may have the capability of remotely accessing their company network with their home computer to read e-mail. Access, Network terms, RC, Remote, Remote user, Tele, Virtual computing, VPN You should only give remote access to people you know or that you are sure you can trust. Once someone has access to your computer, they could create a backdoor, or install malware, that would give them easy access to the computer at a later time....
Vaporware is a term first used by Philip Elmer-DeWitt in a TIME magazine article published on February 3, 1986. Vaporware describes software that is announced by a company, but not yet released. Software commonly gets this name after not being released several months or years after the official announced release date. Abandonware, Computer slang, Software, Software terms, Ware
Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. When attempting to turn on the device with the power button, it is unresponsive. This can be caused by faulty battery, loose ribbon cables in a recently replaced battery or blockage in the charging port. If your charging port seems to be clogged, try to clear any blockage with a toothpick and plug in the charger for at least 15 minutes once all blockage is clear....
Your computer and programs running on your computer are not the only places keyboard shortcuts can be used. Many online services like YouTube also offer keyboard shortcuts. Below is a listing of keys you can use on your keyboard to control YouTube videos. Play and pause a video Press spacebar or K on your keyboard to play and pause a video. The YouTube video and window must be active. If these keys are not working, click the video to make sure it is selected....
Difficulty Difficult Steps 14 Time Required 45 minutes Sections 1 Internal Battery 14 steps Flags 0 BackRice Cooker Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction If the front panel screen of a Zojirushi Rice Cooker does not show information, most likely the internal battery of the rice cooker is dead (except damage caused by human factors)....
Geocasting is a technique for routing data on the Internet. To geocast information is to choose its destination based on how far the information needs to travel. When information travels a shorter physical distance, pages load faster in a web browser. For example, if a website operates identical servers in the United States and Germany, a user in Great Britain gets the information faster from Germany. A router or switch configured to geocast the data packets would direct the traffic to the German server....
Often abbreviated as IE or MSIE, Microsoft Internet Explorer is an Internet browser that allows users to view web pages on the Internet. Users can also utilize Internet Explorer to listen to and watch streaming content, access online banking, make purchases over the Internet, and more. The screenshot is an example of what Internet Explorer 7.0 looked like with the Computer Hope homepage loaded. Internet Explorer history Internet Explorer was first introduced on August 16, 1995, by Microsoft as version 1....
Motif is a Graphical User Interface (as well as the widget toolkit) for Unix and Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It was first developed in the 1980s. Motif uses a square, three-dimensional, chiseled appearance to draw interface windows, dialog boxes, and other GUI elements. Over the years, it was developed to closely mimic the popular Windows and OS/2 GUIs, with Microsoft contributing to Motif’s design style guide....
Paging may refer to any of the following: Paging is a DRAM memory management method used by computers allowing data to be saved and obtained from a specified storage space to be used in the main memory. Under this method, data is gathered using blocks of the same size (called pages), which allows for noncontiguous use of the physical address space. When accessing memory in the same row the computer keeps the row address and only changes the column....
Smishing is a fraudulent action similar to phishing, using SMS (text) messages rather than e-mail messages to send bait messages to people. Much like phishing, a smishing message appears to be legitimate, asking for personal or financial information by requesting you visit a website or call a phone number. Often a smishing message give a sense of urgency such as an account being deleted or an ATM card being suspended....
Alternatively known as web surfing, surfing with computers describes the act of browsing the Internet by going from one web page to another web page using hyperlinks in an Internet browser. Origin of the phrase The phrase “surfing the Internet” was coined in February 1992 by computer scientist Mark McCahill. Later that year, author Jean Amour Polly further popularized the phrase in an article titled “Surfing the INTERNET: An Introduction.”...
