Kilobyte
This is an almost defunct term for a very small unit of memory into which even a short blog entry cannot be squeezed. In the early years of computing, computer memory was made from small magnetic hoops through which wires were threaded - eight of which were required to store a single character or byte. [...]
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Further Comments on Muscle Memory
- Tim Negris posted a comment to my post: Productivity And The “Muscle Memory” Interface It bears repetition. This is what it said… To dig deeper, it seems that the muscle-memory user interface (MMUI) has a few common attributes appearing in most...
Productivity And The “Muscle Memory” Interface
- This year I will finally be able to put some effort into PDQMac.com, the site I’ve set up with the aim of improving people’s interface productivity. If there’s a key underlying point to what I’ll be doing with that site,...
One Million Users: Is Stanza Killing The Kindle?
- If you’re not one of its million users, then you’re probably asking “What is Stanza?” Stanza is an electronic book application for the iPod/iPhone available for free through the Apple App Store. It’s not the only free eBook application, but...
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- The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions (I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously). Document Management System A filing cabinet, Fax and photocopier. Kilobyte This is an almost defunct term for a very small unit of memory into which even a short blog entry cannot be squeezed. In the early years of computing, computer...
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- The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions (I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously). Blogging The process whereby sad individuals regularly publish their inane musings on the web, possessed by the delusion that someone might actually want to read them. Help Desk A team of highly trained counselors whose job is to calm you...
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- 0 - 9: 90 Percent Solution A: Accountancy, Actuary, Agent, Archiving, Artificial Intelligence, Athiest, Audit Trail, Autoformat B: Battery, Benchmark, Binary, Bit or BIT, Blogging, Booting, Broadband, BTSOOM, Buzzword C: Carrier, CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering), CISC, Commit, Computer languages, Content Management, Critical Success Factor, Cursor D: Data Base Administrator, DBA, Data Warehouse, Deadline, Decision Table, Demon (Or...