Digital Media thingys and bits

• Microsoft: A software company, best known for the Windows operating system.

  • Memory Stick: A software company, best known for the Windows operating system.
  • Mouse: In computing, a mouse (plural mice or mouses) functions as a pointing device by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of a small case, held under one of the user’s hands, with one or more buttons.
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  • Mash Up-In technology, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool;
• Meta Tags-Information placed in the HTML header of a Web page, providing information that is not visible to browsers

• Mirror-A mirror in computing is a direct copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site

• Media File-These are the image, audio, video and text files - “Media Files” or Media. These files (.gif, .wav, .mpg, .txt, etc.) are also known as Assets.

• Monitor-A monitor is an approach to synchronizing two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource, usually a hardware device or a set of variables.

• Media Player-The media player is the software on the client computer that decompresses the streaming video or audio using a codec and plays it back on the computer screen

• Melbourne IT-Melbourne IT is an Australian internet company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Formed in 1996, its primary business is domain name

• Megabyte-approximately one million bytes, 1,024 kilobytes

• Motherboard-The main printed circuit board in a computer that carries the system buses. It is equipped with sockets to which all processors, memory modules

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• Nano Technology-Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering a broad range of topics. The main unifying theme is the control of matter on a scale smaller than 1 micrometer, normally between 1-100 nanometers, as well as the fabrication of devices on this same length scale

• Notebook-Notebook is software for running a client-side personal wiki. It is a desktop application, runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and any other platform with Tcl/Tk support.

• Network-Any connection of two or more computers that enables them to communicate. Networks may include transmission devices, servers, cables, routers and satellites. The phone network is the total infrastructure for transmitting phone messages.

• Network Security Administrator-The Computer Security Administration group provides a number of services to specific departments and acts as a central point of contact regarding computer security issues for CNS, University community and external users. We endeavor to promote computing security by providing documentation on standard security practise and investigating the application and implementation of security technologies.

• Non-Graphical Display Browser-This invention relates to user interfaces in general, and to a telephony user interface in particular.

• Navigation-The term used to describe the method of wayfinding on a website and the visual elements and areas that direct users to content.

• Noise-The amount of noise that is reduced through the introduction of sound absorbing materials. The level (in decibels) of sound reduced on a logarithmic basis.