Casting the Runes

Casting the runes: What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else. The word is especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what everyone else has done.

Wrackground Image

Wrackground image is a background image or texture that ruins a Web page by making the text unreadable.

Chiclet Keyboard

A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards).

Body Shopper

A contractor in a Developing or Third World country who recruits local programmers and shops them around to software companies located especially in North America and Europe.

Steve Wozniak

Did you know that Steve Wozniak was working for Hewlett Packard when he invented the Apple computer?

Grok

Grok: Taken from Robert Heinlein's book 'Stranger in a Strange Land', the word literally meaning 'to drink' but taken to mean 'understanding' and is often used by programmers and other assorted geeks.

Drunk Mouse Syndrome

Drunk Mouse Syndrome, also known as Mouse on Drugs, refers to a malady exhibited by the mouse pointing device of some computers. The typical symptom is for the mouse cursor on the screen to move in random directions and not in sync with the motion of the actual mouse.

Cokebottle

Did you know that the term Cokebottle refers to any very unusual character, particularly one you cannot type because it isn't on your keyboard?

Internet Connectivity

Did you know that the United States, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, and Mexico were the first ten countries to have Internet connectivity?

Sony PlayStation

Did you know that Sony's PlayStation began its life as a CD attachment for the Nintendo Super NES? When the two companies failed to agree on how the new device would sell, Sony decided to further develop it into a game machine of its own and released the PlayStation in 1995.