whatis.com

Advantages: explains technobabble in simple terms
Disadvantages: doesn't contain the acronym NORWICH ;-)

...TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms/Abbreviations!) from whatis.com to help fill the holes left for technobabble in a filmscript (although the ones used from "The Wedding Planner" [op to follow] weren't taken from whatis.com!). From the rural idyll of Styria’s Aichfeld Valley, where I had an internet free 9 months in 1997-98, I was plunged headlong into the world of Telecomms in the summer of 1998, and rapidly became confronted with an entirely new ...
...SDH and ATM information. Whatis.com became my hidden weapon, with which I, the intern who was a fresh face in Telecomms – and had baby skin, who was “expected to know”, used to answer these questions. Admittedly it couldn’t tell me if I wanted English or French mustard in my roast beef baguette, but it answered nearly all of the other more life-threatening questions. The site is effectively a glossary of terms in for IT, ... Read review

Advantages: Great Source of Technical Information
Disadvantages: Can get deep......

...saviour. ~~ The Saviour Whatis.com is a godsend. Why? If you want to know about it, it will tell you about it. The site is an Information's System (IS) Data Dictionary and more. ~~ Navigation Very easily to navigate: You can do a Quick Search, or browse through the Alphabetic Listing. I would recommend the Search Facility as life is short and browsing would make it shorter! ~~ Choice You take out of the information supplied by your search what ...
...the links within the text supplied and spend days soaking up all and every fact under the sun, do not do this, unless it is your desire to be a Teflon Head! ~~ Links There is a "Word of the Day" and "Learn About ....." ~~ Membership Join up, subscribe to their mailing list and receive every day the "Word Of The day", guaranteed to bore you stupid by the end of week one. Not recommended, except for "Teflon Heads". ~~ Summary A great source of ... Read review

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Whatis.com is an excellent site to find information summarized about thousand of subjects and words in relation to the world of the computers the telecommunications and Internet For example is wanted find that it means ASP or then CGI is necessary to go to Whatis.com to find out the meaning of these words. it is possible to look for by letters to look for information either by subjects or classified or by means of a search by words Whatis.come ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, easy to use, free
Disadvantages: none serious

So, your wondering what on earth all these letters mean. Cant tell the difference between a LAN or a WAN? If not heres the site for you! If youre wondering what ANY technical term is wheter it's to do with the internet or Digital Cameras, this site is " acronym heaven" Wondering what a WAP does or even looks like? search for it using the built in accurate search tools. I once did a project and this site was extreamly useful as all the data is in ... Read review