In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system. It can serve as an...
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The ICON (also the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and Unisys ICON, and nicknamed the bionic beaver) was a networked personal computer built specifically...
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of software applications, an icon often represents a program, an action, or data on a computer. Though the design of icons has existed as long as pictograms...
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Avatar (computing) (redirect from Buddy icon)
two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures, userpics, or formerly picons (personal icons, or...
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Favicon (redirect from Bookmark icon)
favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons associated...
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icon in the notification area on Windows 95 and Windows 98 and runs as a hidden service on Windows Me, but can be made to show a tray icon. Computer programs...
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ICO (file format) (redirect from Icon file)
The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color...
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Apple II and was amazed and excited by the computer screen's design capability to undo, redo, and iterate an icon or letterform while seeing it simultaneously...
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Bodie and Brock Thoene iCon: Steve Jobs, a 2005 biography of Steve Jobs by Jeffrey Young Icons: Creativity with Camera and Computer, an illustrated book...
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Hamburger button (redirect from Hamburger icon)
the user interface for the Xerox Star personal computer, introduced in 1981. Cox described the icon's creation, saying, "Its graphic design was meant...
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run Big Sur). A Happy Mac is the normal bootup (startup) icon of an Apple Macintosh computer running older versions of the Mac operating system. It was...
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Graphical user interface (redirect from Graphical Computer)
elements in GUIs is the windows, icons, text fields, canvases, menus, pointer (WIMP) paradigm, especially in personal computers. The WIMP style of interaction...
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IWoz (redirect from IWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It)
iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It is a 2006 New York Times bestselling...
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NewIcons is a third-party extension to the icon handling system for AmigaOS 2 and newer. NewIcons was first invented and developed by the Italian programmer...
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'desktop', while internal ones were accessed clicking on an icon representing the computer itself. By comparison, the Mac OS places all drives on the desktop...
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Def Jam: Icon is a 3D fighting video game developed by EA Chicago and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...
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Video game (redirect from Computer games)
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...
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The bomb icon (💣), usually depicted as a black sphere with sparking fuse has several different applications in computing, and typically indicates a fatal...
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Dockapps are computer programs that have a tiny graphical interface, the size of an icon. They typically reside in a part of the user interface known...
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(34): 38–39. Greenberg, Allen (March 1994). "Passing Judgment On A Pop Icon". Computer Gaming World. pp. 42–43. Clays, Simon (March 1994). "Star Trek: The...
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Registry. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers "'Why does Windows limit icon overlays...
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A share icon is a user interface icon intended to convey to the user a button for performing a share action. Content platforms such as YouTube often include...
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Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film,...
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History of the graphical user interface (category History of human–computer interaction)
user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements...
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@icon sushi (aicon sushi is used when @ unsupported in a filename) is a conversion and creation computer icon freeware software tool for Microsoft Windows...
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Apple Inc. (redirect from Apple computer)
Wozniak, Steve; Smith, Gina (2006). iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. W...
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The use of flag icons, particularly national flags, for languages is a common practice. Such icons have long been used on tourist attraction signage, and...
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Tango Desktop Project (redirect from Tango Icon Theme)
applications on desktop environments. The project created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Library and that were described as a "proof of concept". The...
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IconBuilder was a popular plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Macromedia Fireworks for the editing and creation of computer icons...
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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994), was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple...
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