Blog.Caneja.com » Cool Word of the Day http://blog.caneja.com Everyday computing made easier. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:02:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 betamaxed http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/betamaxed/ http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/betamaxed/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:12:55 +0000 caneja http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/betamaxed/ Slang for what happens when the "best" technology loses out to a lesser technology that is more well-known in the marketplace. This term refers to the VCR wars, when VHS became the standard over the "superior" Betamax format. (A growing number of users feel this process has since been perfected by Microsoft.)

 

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Note: India’s $17 billion-a-year software export industry in 2006 has spent the past 15 years establishing Bangalore as the country’s version of Silicon Valley. But for some Indians, Bangalore’s symbol as their tech boom capital doesn’t change the fact that its name was from British colonialism. Now the leaders of that state are considering changing Bangalore’s name to something closer to its original, pre-colonial name: Benda Kaal Ooru. OK, but you’ve been "Benda Kaal Ooru’d" doesn’t quite have the same ring.

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]]> http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/bangalored/feed/ 0 Emoticons http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/emoticons/ http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/emoticons/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:09:40 +0000 caneja http://blog.caneja.com/must-have-software/emoticons/ An emoticon is a sequence of typed characters that creates a rough picture of something, such as a facial expression. If you don’t see the picture in the emoticon shown above, try tilting your head to the left-the colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis represents the mouth. More commonly known as smileys and also referred to as "ASCII-grams," emoticons number in the hundreds and are used to indicate delight, sadness, or frustration. The most popular one is the smiling face shown above, which people use in e-mail or chat rooms to say, "If you could see me now, I’d be smiling."
The term "emoticon" literally means "an icon that represents emotion." Emoticons grew out of the need to display feeling in the two-dimensional, online, written world. When speaking face-to-face (F2F), a person’s facial expressions help you understand the meaning of what he or she is saying. Emoticons are an attempt to bring that extra nuance to online communications by composing a face out of ASCII characters. Some emoticons don’t require you to tilt your head to see them. There’s a new group of ASCII icons called assicons, as well as another group, called straight-on smileys. There are also elaborate images, known as ASCII art. These are generally used in sig files.
Emoticons usually follow after the punctuation (or replace the punctuation) at the end of a sentence. An emoticon tells someone what you really mean when you make an offhand remark ;^)

 

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]]> http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/treeware/feed/ 0 dead tree edition http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/dead-tree-edition/ http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/dead-tree-edition/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:57:42 +0000 admin http://blog.caneja.com/?p=211 The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms. As in: “The dead tree edition of the San Francisco Chronicle….”

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]]> http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/dead-tree-edition/feed/ 0 Live http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/live/ http://blog.caneja.com/cool-word-of-the-day/live/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:13:29 +0000 admin http://blog.caneja.com/?p=195 A stage of Web development at which the site is finished and launched. For example, you may hear, “When is the site going to go live?” It means the same as “up,” in the sense that someone could respond by saying, “It’ll be up by the end of the business day on Friday.” Most Web developers will wait until the middle of the night to FTP a finished site to the server (unless they’ve tested it thoroughly on a staging server). There is less traffic on the Net at odd hours of the night, so they can presumably get it up quicker and fix anything that may be wrong (or “broken”) without the majority of their audience witnessing the error.

http://www.learnIT.org also does a good job at explaining this.

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Here’s Adamloving from http://adamloving.com/ doing a great explanation of such on YouTube

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Here’s a great example.

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