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MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed...

Tivadar Puskás de Ditró (in older English technical literature: Theodore Puskás) (17 September 1844 – 16 March 1893) was a Hungarian inventor, telephone...

The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from...

Broadcatching is the downloading of digital content that has been made available over the Internet using RSS. The general idea is to use an automated mechanism...

A breadboard, solderless breadboard, or protoboard is a construction base used to build semi-permanent prototypes of electronic circuits. Unlike a perfboard...

There are many types of shears used to shear or cut sheet metal. An alligator shear, historically known as a lever shear and sometimes as a crocodile shear...

An NTFS reparse point is a type of NTFS file system object. It is available with the NTFS v3.0 found in Windows 2000 or later versions. Reparse points...

An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular...

Strapping, also known as bundling and banding, is the process of applying a strap to an item to combine, stabilize, hold, reinforce, or fasten it. A strap...

In manufacturing, threading is the process of creating a screw thread. More screw threads are produced each year than any other machine element. There...

FirstClass is a client–server groupware, email, online conferencing, voice and fax services, and bulletin-board system for Windows, macOS, and Linux. FirstClass's...

Viewdata is a Videotex implementation. It is a type of information retrieval service in which a subscriber can access a remote database via a common carrier...

The Unified Thread Standard (UTS) defines a standard thread form and series—along with allowances, tolerances, and designations—for screw threads commonly...

A launch loop, or Lofstrom loop, is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached...

Data conversion is the conversion of computer data from one format to another. Throughout a computer environment, data is encoded in a variety of ways...

This list of 3D graphics software contains software packages related to the development and exploitation of 3D computer graphics. For a comparison, see...

Zinf is a free audio player for Unix-like and Windows operating systems. Zinf is released under the GNU General Public License. Zinf is a continuation...

Hastings Power Station was a gas turbine power station situated in Hastings in East Sussex, England. It was built on the site of the Broomgrove coal-fired...

Fast user switching is a feature of a multi-user operating system which allows users to switch between user accounts without quitting applications and...

The M6 bayonet is a bayonet used by the U.S. military for the M14 rifle, it can also be used with the Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle as well M39 Enhanced...