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Docking station
Alternatively referred to as a universal port replicator, a docking station is a hardware device that allows portable computers to connect with other devices with little or no effort. Docking stations enable users with a laptop computer to convert it into a desktop computer when at the office or at home. For example, a user could use their laptop while on the road and then when at the office connect the laptop to the docking station and use their 19" monitor, speakers, and office printer without having to transfer any of the data they may have been working on while on the road. In the picture to the right, is an example of a Dell docking station, this particular docking station enables the laptop to be directly connected to the docking station without the need of using any additional cables. Keep in mind that all docking stations are different.
Dock -Term used to describe the process of connecting a portable computer to a docking station.
Undock (cold dock) - Term used to describe the process of disconnecting a portable computer from a docking
station after it has been shut down.
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E ink
1. Hardware company founded in 1997 with research that started at the MIT Media Lab that develops Electronic Paper Displays (EPD) technologies found in such products as the Amazon Kindle. As can be seen in the picture example, this technology works by positively charging white pigment chips and negatively charging black pigment chips and storing those chips in a clear fluid. When a negative electric field is applied the white pigment chips move to the top and makes the surface appear white, and the opposite eclectic field moves the black pigment chips to the surface.
2. Electronic Paper is also the code name Microsoft used for Multiplan.
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Excel
Codenamed Odyssey, Excel is a software program capable of creating and editing spreadsheets that are saved with a .xls file extension. For example, with a spreadsheet you could create your own payroll, balance your check book, organize a large amount of data in an easy to read format, and much more. This is done by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing the values in the spreadsheet to view overall totals and create graphs based on that data.
Unlike a word processor such as Microsoft Word, the Excel documents are created with several hundred columns and rows that break down to several thousand cells. These can be modified by color, number format, size, fonts, layout, and thousands of additional available options. In the below picture, is an example of what Microsoft Excel may look like.
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Tumblr
Tumblr is a website that provides users with a microblogging platform and social networking capabilities. Users can post a variety of content, including text and multimedia. Users can also follow the blogs of other users. The website offers a dashboard type of interface, providing easy access for blog posting and viewing other blogs being followed.
Tumblr was created and launched by David Karp on April 27, 2007 and has grown to be one of the most popular blogging websites, registering 13.4 million unique visitors from the United States in July 2011. By July 2012, over 71 million posts were being made to the site every day and as of December 27, 2012, the site had over 39 billion posts in total. Several famous individuals use Tumblr, including Lady Gaga and John Mayer, and even President Obama used Tumblr to host his blog starting in October 2011. Tumblr's success earned David Karp recognition as the Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by BusinessWeek in 2009.
On May 20th, 2013 Yahoo! announced it was purchasing Tumblr for $1.1Billion dollars.
The official Tumblr page is found at http://www.tumblr.com/
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UDP
Short for User Datagram Protocol and defined in RFC 768, UDP is an alternative protocol to the TCP/IP that runs on top of IP and is sometimes referred to as UDP/IP. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP does not divide each transmission into packets, which allows for a faster transmission. However, UDP does not provide error checking.
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