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What does NZB mean?

NZB is an XML file format

An NZB file is a file containing information where a certain download is from Niewsgroepen. For example, you are looking for blogging software: WordPress. If you have a wordpress nzb file then it says what messages you need to download to download the software package. You can import an NZB file into most newsgroups readers. The file itself is an XML-sourced file in which the newsgroup is listed, and what bits of it should be downloaded to reach a full file. The name itself derives from the fact that Newzbin.com started with it.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is online chat in 140 characters

Twitter is a service/website that works a bit like MSN Messenger and SMS. You can say in 140 characters what you are doing at the moment, are reading, or are planning to go. So far it looks like SMS. All the people who follow you (in your friends list) see that message, and Kunen may respond to it (this is the comparison with MSN Messenger). You can enter these messages on the website, but there are also a lot of other tools that you can use to customize your status (Windows/Linux/Mac/Mobile/etc.). Read More

What does opt-out mean?

OPT-OUT is an unsubscribe request

An OPT-OUT request means you are unsubscribing for something. This usually occurs in email newsletters that you receive. Often, at the bottom of such a newsletter, there is a possibility to unsubscribe, sign out, or unregister. For domain names you can also opt-outen. Then it means that the address data does not emerge if one does a whois on the domain.

What does retweet mean?

Retweet is a Twitter term

Retweet (RT) is a term used on Twitter. You can compare it to a forward from an email. With a retweet ' forward ' you get a message from someone else to your own network of Twitter followers. You do this because it is a nice or good message that you want to share with people. Within Twitter you do this by RT or retweet. If the Twitter user watbetekent so says: Yo
u really have to go to www.wat-betekent.nl and retweet you, then you say
RT @watbetekent you really have to go to www.wat-betekent.nl or
retweet @watbetekent you really have to go to www.wat-betekent.nl

What does Malware mean?

Malware is malicious software

Malware is a generic name for malicious and/or malicious software. It is often designed with a criminal purpose (by coming back from people's passwords, or finding information). Malware is the collective name of viruses, Trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, dialers, botnets, malicious websites, tracking cookies, etc. It descends from the English "malicious software". Read More

What does VOIP mean?

In Voice over IP or VoIP, the Internet or any other IP network is used to transport voice. This enables telephony on data networks and the possibility of merging the formerly traditionally separated worlds of speech and data. As a result, only one infrastructure is needed and new products and services can also be developed. Working with VoIP-based telephone exchanges has now become commonplace within companies. The term VoIP is often falsely used to point to the actual transfer of votes rather than to its protocol.