City Pedia Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dvorak keyboard layout - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout

    Dvorak / ˈdvɔːræk / ⓘ [1] is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout). Dvorak proponents claim that it requires less finger motion [2] and as a result reduces errors ...

  3. Keyboard expression - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_expression

    Keyboard expression is the ability of a keyboard musical instrument to change tone or other qualities of the sound in response to velocity, pressure or other variations in how the performer depresses the keys of the musical keyboard. Expression types include: Velocity sensitivity —how fast the key is pressed. Aftertouch, or pressure ...

  4. Touch typing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing

    Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...

  5. List of CB slang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CB_slang

    Police officer in some form of aircraft. (See "Eye in the Sky") Bear rolling discos. A speeding police car with its lights flashing. Bear trap. RADAR or speed trap. Bear with ears. A police officer monitoring the CB airwaves. Blue Light Special.

  6. Response time (technology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_time_(technology)

    Response time is the amount of time a pixel in a display takes to change. It is measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower numbers mean faster transitions and therefore fewer visible image artifacts. Display monitors with long response times would create display motion blur around moving objects, making them unacceptable for rapidly moving images.

  7. Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

    Key types A typical 105-key computer keyboard, consisting of sections with different types of keys. A computer keyboard consists of alphanumeric or character keys for typing, modifier keys for altering the functions of other keys, navigation keys for moving the text cursor on the screen, function keys and system command keys—such as Esc and Break—for special actions, and often a numeric ...

  8. Cognitive disengagement syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_disengagement...

    Cognitive disengagement syndrome ( CDS) is an attention syndrome characterised by prominent dreaminess, mental fogginess, hypoactivity, sluggishness, slow reaction time, staring frequently, inconsistent alertness, and a slow working speed. To scientists in the field, it has reached the threshold of evidence and recognition as a distinct syndrome.

  9. Text messaging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging

    The winners were a team from South Korea, Ha Mok-min and Bae Yeong-ho. On 6 April 2011, SKH Apps released an iPhone app, iTextFast, to allow consumers to test their texting speed and practice the paragraph used by Guinness Book of World Records. As of 2011, best time listed on Game Center for that paragraph is 34.65 seconds. Morse code