So many people still spend hundreds of words in emails trying to find meaning of the chat/online/net etiquettes that we netizens use often. Some similar incident happened to me lately. Someone in this universe of internet, whom I met online, came to me first asking about the words that I posted online, of course somewhere online. It was just regular online etiquette and believe me, it was so stupid to continue arguments with such people. That's how I realized after several exchange of conversations. Finally, that someone somehow admitted ignorance about these terms and showed some interest to learn . I would've taken it positively if that someone would have shown some interest to learn but instead kept arguing with me and that really pissed me off.


Posting same ages old etiquette which I believe should be learned by every net surfer or everyone who is reading these words online. Just to escape from being lost, you can give it a try.

Here we go,


0-9

1337 (written in ASCII) - From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
2 - too, or to
4 - For

A


AFAICR/S/T - As far as I can recall / remember / see / tel
AFAIK - As far as I know
AFK - Away from keyboard
ANFSCD - And Now For Something Completely Different. Used to change the subject of conversation.
ASAP - As soon as possible
ASL - Age / sex / location
ATEOTD - At The End of the Day
ATM - At the moment
AWOL - Absent Without (Official) Leave
AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB) - All your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)

B


B2B - Business to Business
B& and/or B7- Banned
BBIAB - Be back in a bit
BBL/S - Be back later / shortly / soon
BCNU - Be seein' you
Blog - Also known as web log or an online journal
BOFH - ~censored~ operator from hell
Bot - Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging software
BRB - Be right back
BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
BTDT - Been there done that
BTW - By the way
Bump - Increment (For example, C's ++ operator.)or a backronym for "Bring Up My Post"

C


Crawl - To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
Crapplet - A poorly written computer application
CU - See you (later)
CYA - See ya OR Cover Your Ass
Cyber (prefix) - A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computer
Cyberspace - Virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other kinds of computer systems. Science fiction author William Gibson popularized the term in his novel Neuromancer. Gibson used the word to describe a virtual world of computer networks that his cyberpunk heroes 'jacked into'



D


DFTT - Don't feed the trolls
DGAF - Don't Give A ~censored~
DIAF - Die in a fire
DILLIGAF/D/S - Does it look like I give a flip / ~censored~ / damn / shit
DND - Do not disturb
DOA - Dead on arrival. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.

E


EOF - End Of File
EOM - End of Message
EOL - End of Life. Device or hardware that is at the end of its product life cycle.
EQ - EverQuest
ETA - Estimated time of arrival

F


FAQ - Frequently Asked Question(s)
FFS - For ~censored~'s sake
Flamer - Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensive comments. Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet troll[3]
FMCDH - From My Cold Dead Hands
FOAD - ~censored~ off and die
FOAF - Friend of a friend
FTL - For the loss
FTW - For the win
FU - ~censored~ you
FUBAR - ~censored~ up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang; pronounced "foo-bar")
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation)
FWIW - For what it's worth
FYI - For your information

G


GBTW - Get back to work
GF - Great/good fight/girlfriend
GFU - Good for you
GFY - Go ~censored~ yourself
GG - Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match
GJ - Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs an act benefitting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling that kill
GMTA - Great minds think alike
Godwin's Law - Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
Gratz - Congratulations
GTFO - Get the ~censored~ out
GTG or G2G - 'Got to go' or 'Good to go'
GR -Good Race
GR8 - Great

H


HAND - Have A Nice Day
Handle - Name used in online chat, (AKA nick(name), alias, screen/user name)
HF - Have fun
Haxor or H4x0r (1337) - Hacker
Hit - A request made to the web server, (noun) the results of an internet search, (verb) loading a Web page. Hits are not equivalent to visitors of a webpage.
Home page - The website's introduction page, starting point, and guide. The technical term is "index"
Hot list - A collection of publicly available URLs (World Wide Web site addresses), sometimes available as text files.
HTH - Hope this / that helps
H8 - Hate

I


IANAL - I am not a lawyer
IBTL - In before the lock
IDC - I don't care
IDK - I don't know
IIRC - If I recall / remember correctly
IIUC - If I understand correctly
IMO/IMHO/IMNSHO/IMAO - In my (humble / honest / not so humble / arrogant) opinion
Information superhighway - The Internet (AKA: I-way, infobahn)
IONO - I don't know
IOW - In other words
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IRL - In real life
ITYM - I Think You Mean
IWSN - I want sex now
IYKWIM - If you know what I mean

J


Jaggy - Aliased computer graphics
JK or j/k - Just kidding, or joke
JFGI - Just ~censored~/Freaking Google It

K


k or kk - OK
KISS - Keep it simple stupid.
KS(ing) - Kill-Steal(ing)
KOS - Kill on sight
KTHX - OK, thanks
KTHXBAI or KTHXBYE - OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short

L


L2P - Learn to play; an admonishment to MMORPG players who are incompetent and/or whine
L8R - Later, L8R also sometimes abbreviated as L8ER is commonly used in chat rooms and other text based communications as a way of saying good bye.
Lag - Slang term for slow Internet speeds or high Internet latency; Lag is sometimes due to a server problem, but more frequently due to the connection between client and server. A slow or intermittent connection may often be referred to as laggy
Lamer - A know-nothing, one who is lame.
Leet - Often spelled as l33t or 1337 in ASCII form. It originally meant elite
LFG - Looking for group
LFM - Looking for more
LM(F)AO - Laughing my (frigging) ass off
LMIRL - Let's meet in real life.
LMK - Let me know
LOL - Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
LTNS - Long time no see
Lurker - Someone who frequents a Usenet group without participating in discussions

M


MMORPG, MMO - Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game
MMOFPS - Massive Multi-player Online First Person Shooter
MOTD - Message of the day
MS - MapleStory, an MMORPG
MTFBWY - May The Force be with you
MUD - Multi-User Dungeon
MUSH - Multi-User Shared Hallucination
MYOB - Mind your own business
M8 - Mate

N


NE1 - "Anyone"
NFI - "No ~censored~ Idea"
Newbie, noob, or n00b - An inexperienced user of a system or game,or an annoying person.
NIFOC - Naked In Front Of Computer
NM - (Sometimes written N/M) Not much, Never mind or no message, used on message boards or in e-mails to indicate that everything is already said in the subject line.
NP - No problem
NSFW - Not safe for work. Warning about content that may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
NVM, NVMD, or nm - Nevermind, not much

O


O RLY - Oh really?
OIC - Oh, I see
OFN - Old ~censored~ news
OMG - Oh my god
OMFG - Oh my ~censored~ god
OMW - On my way or Oh my word
OP - Original poster / Operator / Outpost
OS - Operating system
OT - Off topic
OTOH - On the other hand
OTP - On the phone or One true pairing

P


P2P - Peer to peer, or pay to play
PAW - Parents are watching
PEBKAC/PEBCAK - Problem exists between keyboard and chair
Ping - From the popular network monitoring tool, used as a greeting similar to "Are you there?".
PITA - Pain in the arse / ass
PLMK - Please let me know
PMSL - Pissing myself laughing
POS - Piece of shit, or parent over shoulder.
POTS - Plain old telephone service
POV - Point of view
PPL - People
PTKFGS - Punch the Keys For God's Sake
pr0n - Intentional misspelling of porn
PW - Persistent World (gaming)
pwned - Intentional misspelling of owned

Q


QFT - Quoted for truth. Used on internet message boards to show agreement from a previous message


R


Rehi (or merely re) - Hello again
RL - Real Life[3]
RO(T)FL - Rolling on (the) floor laughing
RO(T)FLMAO - Rolling on (the) floor laughing my ass off
RO(T)FLOL - Rolling on (the) floor laughing out loud
RSN - Real soon now (used sarcastically)
RTFB - Read the ~censored~ binary (or book)
RTFS - Read the ~censored~ source
RTFM/RTM - Read the (~censored~) manual

S


SCNR - Sorry, could not resist
sk8/sk8r - skate/skater
Smiley - Another name for emoticons
SMH - Shaking my head
SNAFU - Situation normal: all (~censored~/[3]fouled) up
Snail mail - Normal paper mail service
SOHF - Sense of humor failure
Spider - The program behind a search engine
STFU - Shut the ~censored~ up
STFW - Search the ~censored~ web

T


TANSTAAFL - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
TBF - Time between failures
TBH - To be honest
TG - That's great
TGIF - Thank god it's Friday
TH(N)X, TNX or TX - Thanks
TIA - Thanks in advance
TINC - There Is No Cabal, a term discouraging conspiracy theories
TMI - Too much information
TOS - Terms of service
TTBOMK - To the best of my knowledge
TTFN - Ta ta for now
TTT - To the top, used in forums to bump a thread
TTYL - Talk to you later (also spelled TTUL, T2UL or T2YL)
TTYTT - To Tell You The Truth
Tweedler - One who has deep love for all computer related technology and gadgets
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
TY - Thank you
TYT - Take your time
TYVM - Thank you very much

U


U - You
UTFSE - Use the ~censored~ search engine

V

W


w00t, w00T or WOOT - First two express exuberance, the latter is a backronym for the term "We Own the Other Team".
W/ or W/O - With or without
WB - Welcome back
W/E - Whatever
WRT - With respect / regard to
WTB - Want to buy
WTF - What the ~censored~
WTG - Way to go
WTH - What the hell
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade
WUG - What you got?
WoW - World of Warcraft (game)
WUBU2 - What (have) you been up to?
WUU2 - What (are) you up to?
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
W8 - Wait


Y

YARLY - Yeah Really
YHBT - You have been trolled
YKW - You know what?
YMMV - Your mileage may vary.
YTMND - You're The Man Now, Dog
YW - You're welcome.
YOYO- You're On Your Own.


Z
ZOMG - An intentional misspelling of the acronym shorthand for "Oh My God/Gawd" and pronounced "Zoh My God/Gawd" This version is mainly used in jest or to ridicule people who use abbreviations like OMG and OMFG


(src: Credit to original author of this listing)

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The Latest buzz in tech world is Pirate Bay trial in Swedish Court. Some young lads namely Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, and Fredrik Neij from Sweden revolutionized the term 'P2P' through their BitTorrent site called thepiratebay.org.


BitTorrent is protocol used to share files among connected computers all around the world. Torrents are files as a reference to some other seeder's files. Seeders are those guys who host the files on there computers and let other downloads off their computers. Those who downloads are called leechers. Combo of seeders and leechers, lets say, their communities are called peers. In this kind of network, there is no centralized server to deal with. Any individual system can act client/server at anytime. And the main acting agent here is BitTorrent client which is a software which acts as a medium to make all this things happen. One has to have high speed internet connection to allow download/upload same time.

Based on that, thepiratebay.org is infamous for illegal fire-sharing activities. It's torrents link to all full length high quality movies, full version softwares,games, books, music, etc. If you ask me, I'd say this is one of the most organized torrent trackers I've ever seen.

With the reach of high-speed Internet connectivity, most percentage of netizens well-versed in computing stuff are involved in torrents somehow. If you've never heard of torrents, it's good for you. If you've heard of it, you'd risk getting busted but I still remember those words which certainly must have discouraged law enforcers that almost 90% of the net users were to blame. Then, the hunt began for the select networks actively involved in illegal sharings. Piratebay Trial is one of the episodes in the series of huntdown.

Few days ago, piratebay trial was a hotcake news. I couldn't cover it because of my busy schedule but I've been observing it closely. With what turned out, it seems that piratebay is not easily going to give up. Swedish court already dropped half of the charges against piratebay. The trial is still ongoing and I'm eager to what comes out.

When asked about the copyright infringement and compensation demanded by Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industries, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal, and EMI, Peter Sunde(co-founder of thepiratebay.org) at news conference said that he is not a rich guy and those companies wouldn't get a cent.

Peter Sunde,Co-Founder of thepiratebay.org
I don't know how they calculate and don't understand what these companies are thinking when they just demand the compensation money out of no where, say thin air. For example, in piratebay trial, they demanded 14.3 million in compensation for lost revenues. We know, torrents networks are comprised of all the users of it. Technically, they had to sue against those millions of users but what they are going against is not gonna help them.

I was thinking thepiratebay gonna have the fate of napster but seemingly things are changing differently.


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Content Aware Image resizing using a freeware tool called Seam Carving GUI . I've read that latest photoshop has incorporated this feature within application.

This concept is developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, and now being used in most of the Graphic applications.

The main purpose of this tool is to resize the part of the image without hindering the overall aspect ratio.

I used the picture of my class fellows and removed my teacher Peggy(sorry teacher) from the scene. The application works great on images with plain background.



I tried it on an image with irregular background and it's algorithm is almost perfect.

This software called 'Seam Carving GUI' runs independently and doesn't even need to install. Just extract and run off the folder, open any image file, mark the area that you want to remove, click remove and see how this tool removes the area without much affecting the remaining aspect ratio of the image. Pretty nifty tools for image manipulator out there.

Download it from here.


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Guys, believe it or not, filing tax seemed a very complicated process for me, when I heard the stories from my father and anyone whom I've talked about it. I was just discouraged to take any initiatives myself because they told me something like..it's a long process, I need to get this accountant, do mathematics, pay him/her(accountant) few hundred bucks blah blah blah.. Since, this was my first year filing for tax, I wasn't sure, where to go and what to do.

Last night, as I was checking my W-2 form, at the top right corner of it I noticed something written as 'E-File' with a link. Whaoo. How could I not see that Last week? May be I was busy checking my income stat and how much taxes I paid to federal and state etc. Whatever as soon as I saw that I fired up the link(http://www.irs.gov/efile/) on my computer's browser.

Guys, if you are tech savvy and love everything starting with 'e' like 'e-file', e-mail etc, then it shouldn't take much time and you would be more than happy to e-file. If you were hiring accountant till last year, you'll save the fees by e-filing your tax.


Something you should know before you start e-filing. The system requires all the informations to be accurate and be provided with confidential data as your Social Security Number, your Employer ID,Tax ID, etc and if you are faint of heart to provide these details over the internet, you are most welcomed to follow your old traditional method of paper mail filing.

As soon as I visited IRS's link, I saw there were many options off which I selected mine as Individual Tax Payer and followed thereafter.

I also noticed, IRS is not helping us to efile but taking third-party help to do that for us. I saw listing of third-party companies on their site for us to choose from. There were many and I chose TurboTax because that name seemed quite familiar and have been hearing a lot recently(may be because of marketing). Checked their reviews on net and found over 90% positive comments on them. So, I jumped on it.

I created myself an account with TurboxTax. It's free. Be sure to give all correct and accurate informations as it's all about your income tax return. Any fake informations like you would do while creating online webmail account would get you into trouble. Don't be frightened giving out your info. I checked their security(https and lock sign with green-long favicon at address bar)layer and it's safe.

Have all your forms ready like W-2,Interest received Form, etc.. and TurboTax will walk you through all the steps and it's so easy that even a kid could complete it if he were eligible for filing tax.

I gave all my attention and filled out everything they asked for. Looking at my income stat, they even recommended what Should I do next? This is something which I liked very much since I didn't have hard time to figure out what to do next and on top of that they've this 'more details' or something like that besides every option to click which would describe me more about what/why am I selecting that option for. I learned many many things which I've never known before. Every IRS related 'jargon' busted.

Turbo Tax helped me get my maximum refund possible, I was even eligible for some other sort of credit which I wasn't told before. and looking at my federal tax return by the end of the process, it was just fabulous. It was six times higher than what I was told that I would receive.

Then, I chose an option where I opted to transfer my refund to my bank account, so I gave all my routing,account details. I'm somewhat crazy about paperless business. You could opt for refund check in your mail box though.

At the end, the screen came where I read that it's only a click away from transferring my tax file to IRS. And, for this TurboTax charged me $9.95 which is nothing as compared to what TurboTax has tutored me in the process and finally helped me e-file my tax return. I read that they efiled my tax successfully. They gave me my own PIN NUMBER(I need this if I've to efile next year)and further let me know that I would get a confirmation email from IRS within 24 hours if my e-file was accepted or rejected.

Finally, I was presented with a screen to save/print my form that was just sent then. I saved my filing in pdf format(They've their completed form in pdf format, needs acrobat reader to read/print). I printed it immediately and kept it for safe record to show when needed that I paid and filed tax(I would have this with TurboTax too, no worries).

Actually, I did this efile yesterday and today, I got mail from IRS that my form was successfully received,accepted and within next 72 hours, I would be able to track my refund.

My parents were just astonished with what I did which they've been doing by paying some hundreds dollars to their accountants. They were spreading words to their friends over the phone,"hey,he just filed his tax return online" which I think is the rhetoric of technology ignorance and shouldn't need much attention. But definitely, it's big thing for them, because, I'm gonna save their hundreds of bucks and next week, I will be helping them to efile their tax return if asked.

Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any loss after following this post of mine. Everything is at your own risk and You agree that if you've read till here.


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Between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 am PST(9:30 a.m. EST and 10:25 a.m. EST) this morning, Google listed almost all internet sites as harmful sites. Every Googler who searched during that time frame were greeted with the awkwardly insane message 'This Site may harm your computer'.
Even Google's own search portal was marked as culprit, who's to blame, nobody..error happens
Google in tie with stopbadware.org has been blacklisting all those sites which contained malicious scripts as harmful malicious sites warning Googlers for potential threats. Stopbadware.org has been listing all the sites as harmful which they later on would send it to Google to update it's search databases, But, something went wrong as what Google mentioned as the 'human error'on their side where the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file(malicious) and '/' expanded to all URLS and they mixed up all genuine as well as threat sites as baddies.

I was oblivious(may be millions of others users in different time zone might have not known what had happened) of that event as Google solved the problem pronto but later I noticed that Google and Stopbadware team had some serious blaming going to each other from what I read on their sites about the issue. It appeared that Google at first put all the blames towards stopbadware of which Stopbadware contradicted rationally. The recent post of Google seemed that it took all the blame for the error.


Whatever had happened, it caused panic all over and put Google's credential at risk. This momentary glitch almost crashed stopbadware.org servers(which they termed as DenialOfService) because of overwhelming influx of guided visitors prompted by the link on the warning message which clearly stated "..you can learn more about harmful web content and how to protect your computer at stopbadware.org.."

Sometimes, we make error. I still remember, that I read during my schoolhood ' to err is human nature'. At this time, cursing Google for this minor glitch is a total misconduct forgetting what Google has given us till date as free service.


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