A computer system for exchanging information across incompatible networks that use different protocols. For example, many commercial services have e-mail gateways for sending messages to Internet addresses.
An online service run by General Electric. If you have an account of GEnie and your mail name (not your username) is "tonynelson", your Internet address is tonynelson@genie.geis.com.
A free compression program commonly available as a UNIX command for file compression, GZip, which is also available for MSDos, compresses files and appends either ".z" or ".gz" to the file name.
Graphics Interchange Format - Developed by Compuserve using compression technology from Unisys. On the World Wide Web pictures and graphics you see on Web pages are usually in GIF format because the files are small and download quickly. Another type of graphics format used commonly are JPEG these files download even faster and contain a better resolution but cannot be interlaced so many web page authors tend to opt for using GIF's instead to get that "melting" onto the screen effect that happens with interlaced images.
Transparent GIF - Transparent GIFs are useful because they appear to blend in smoothly with the user's display, even if the user has set a background color that differs from that the developer expected. They do this by assigning one color to be transparent -- if the web browser supports transparency, that color will be replaced by the browser's background color, whatever it may be.
Interlaced GIF - Interlaced GIFs appear first with poor resolution and then improve in resolution until the entire image has arrived, as opposed to arriving linearly from the top row to the bottom row. This is great to get a quick idea of what the entire image will look like while waiting for the rest. This doesn't do much for you if your web browser doesn't support progressive display as the image is downloaded, but non-progressive-display web browsers will still display interlaced GIFs once they have arrived in their entirety.
You can make transparent and interlaced GIFs through the web without running any utility software on your own system through the Visioneering image manipulation page, which will access your image through the web and produce an enhanced version for you to save. For more information on the different types of GIF's click on the more button below.
For Windows PCs, try Lview Pro
GIF89a, GIF animation, or multi block GIF - a type of GIF format which allows a series of images to be displayed one after another or on top of each other. For more info on GIF animation go here.
Gnu's Not Unix - A project of the Free Software Foundation to write a free version of the Unix operating system.
An Internet server document browsing and searching system that lets you look all over the Internet for texts of interest and helps you to retrieve them.
Global Standard for Mobile Communications - This set of standards is widely used in Europe for cellular communications. The audio encoding subset of the GSM standard is best known to computer users because its data compression and decompression techniques are also being used for Web-phone communication and encoding .wav and .aiff files.
Graphical User Interface - this term refers to a software front-end meant to provide an attractive and easy to use interface between a computer user and an application.
