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Operating systems

Software that handles the basic functionality of hardware.

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Operating systems

confirmation dialog

Software; Operating systems

A dialog requesting the user’s authorization for an operation.

control icon

Software; Operating systems

Icons designed to look and operate like buttons or other physical controls. The user selects or clicks the icons to perform the associated action.

D-subminiature (D-sub)

Computer; Operating systems

A D-shaped connector for computer peripherals.

voice recording

Software; Operating systems

An audio recording, usually of reduced quality and short duration, not appended to a photograph.

warning indicator

Software; Operating systems

An icon displayed by a computer or other device alerting the user to a potential problem.

ClockWorkMod

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A utility for Android used to flash zip files containing Android ROM distributions on an Android mobile phone. It also allows the user to create or restore backup files containing a whole ...

Eclair

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A development branch of the Android OS that contains many improvements that was merged into the master build of Android and is currently being released to new phones as Android 2.0/2.1.

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