This Week on Webopedia: A Guide to Characters and ASCII Equivalents

Friday, September 10, 2010

This Week on Webopedia Volume 14, Number 36   PC Pulse - The top 15 terms from the last week   A Guide to Characters and ASCII Equivalents   Webopedia's Computer Entertainment Category   Terms of the Day   New Terms   Laptops and Notebooks ? What's the Difference?   This Week on internet.com  PC Pulse Here are the top 15 terms our users were interested in last week: URL text messaging OEM CPU SSID phishing Wi-Fi Internet OSI Model DHCP IP address subnet mask application proxy server SSL Characters and ASCII Equivalents Special characters require special coding. Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another. Here are some of the more commonly used characters and their ASCII equivalents. To use a character just copy and paste the ASCII symbol into the formatting of your Web page at the spot where you want the character to show up. Learn more about special characters in this Webopedia Quick Reference article. Webopedia Items Webopedia's Computer Entertainment Category Want to know more about gaming, multimedia, or electronic books? Visit Webopedia's Computer Entertainment Category for terms and related links. Webopedia's Official Facebook Page Be a Webopedia fan on Facebook and interact with the Editors, post messages on the 'Webopedia Wall', plus add comments on articles, discuss technology, or even suggest topics for inclusion in Webopedia. Webopedia Search Box Available Put this customizable search box on your Web site, and give your users access to more than 8,800 computer, Internet and technical terms and definitions.  Webopedia's Tech Support Area Internet.com offers these links to help you get the tech support you need. Read the descriptions of each tech support Web site and choose the one that best suits your needs. Add Webopedia's Term of the Day to your iGoogle page Learn a new term every day with Webopedia, the only online dictionary you need for computer and Internet technology definitions. Already know that one? Look up a term, check out the most recent additions to our ever-growing list of definitions or take a look at our most popular definitions, all served up ad-free. Webopedia Terms of The Day - From The Last Week September 10, 2010: delisting September 09, 2010: edge switch September 08, 2010: Larrabee September 07, 2010: cloud computing September 06, 2010: Organic SEO September 05, 2010: e-discovery September 04, 2010: inbox placement rate Receive The Webopedia "Term of the Day" via our XML/RSS feed, through our Daily Newsletter, on our Facebook page, or you can visit the TOTD page on Webopedia.com. New Terms Information Systems Security Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional Information Technology Architect project manager information technology degree Organic SEO search engine services website optimization Partner Relationship Management business analytics customer experience social CRM email marketing marketing automation Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator CompTia Security+ Laptops and Notebooks ? What's the Difference? Is there really a difference between a laptop and notebook computer? For most consumers shopping for a mobile (or portable) computer system today, the short answer is no. In fact, many consumers will look for a laptop but find almost everything is now called a notebook. The difference between a laptop and notebook today is mainly what the manufacturer chooses to call its product. Technically and traditionally, the difference between the two is a matter of size. Learn more in this Webopedia "Did You Know..." article. Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook! Cloud computing can cut costs, speed implementations, and scale quickly. Download this Internet.com eBook now. Click Here. Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here   This Week on internet.com 10 Tips for Writing an Ecommerce Website FAQ A well-written Frequently Asked Questions page is a useful customer service tool. These 10 tips will help you build a relevant FAQ for customers who prefer 'self-service' support. Microsoft Releases Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta Microsoft hopes its new CRM cloud and software offerings will help it gain ground on Salesforce.com, Oracle and SAP. HP Debuts a ProLiant Small Business Server HP builds a small business server for companies with fewer than nine employees and no internal tech support. Google Wants to Own the Future...by Predicting It! A number of new initiatives give Google ?- and perhaps users -- a glimpse into the future.

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