a small application, usually written in Javaâ„¢. Owing to their miniature size, applets can be set to download automatically when an Internet user visits a Web page.
Wiktionary Definition for: Applet
# computing a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Diamond Eye is a computer program that enables a user equipped with only a personal computer, web-browser software, and a network connection to analyze large collections of scientific image data. The system is based on a distributed applet/server architecture that provides platform-independent access to...
Voice-over-IP service iCall lets you make and receive free calls anywhere in the U.S. and Canada -- as long as you're sitting at your PC. But now iPhone users can get in on the action:Â A new iCall applet for iPhone enables free calling anywhere there's a Wi-Fi hotspot. ...
Google Calendar users have the enviable option to create new events using plain English: "Lunch meeting with Joe tomorrow at Panera Bread," for example. Freeware applet Easy2Add adds the same capability to Outlook, allowing you to create appointments just by typing a line of text. The applet sits...
RALEIGH, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 29, 1996--TriNet Services Inc., and VASCO Data Security, Inc. VDSI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VASCO Corporation (OTC Symbol: VASC) announced today the debut of the Internet AccessKey, a solution that limits access to proprietary information on the Internet's World Wide Web by combining an award-winning JavaTM applet...
Bitstream unveiled the next generation Pageflex software for variable data, Web-to-print, and cross-media publishing. This offering brings all existing Pageflex capabilities together into a single, modular application and adds robust scalability for server clusters; multi-platform interactive online editing, including Java applet, Adobe Flash, and AJAX...
ALAMEDA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 15, 1996--Farallon Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRLN), today announced that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will include Farallon's Look@Me ActiveXtm control in the Microsoftr Internet Explorer Starter Kit, also announced today.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 1996--Intel today announced a new Internet phone applet for PCs running the Windowsa 95 operating system designed to interoperate with other upcoming H.323-based communications software from Microsoft and other vendors.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of channel management solutions, announced today the availability of the configurator functionality for PowerSellers and top eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) sellers. The ChannelAdvisor Configurator enables sellers to embed an applet in eBay listings that allows a buyer to create and dynamically...
When you remove a program from your PC, you don't want it leaving behind little bits of code here and there. You want it gone, like it never existed in the first place. That's the idea behind Revo Uninstaller, a robust bit of freeware that promises to do a much...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Infomosaic Corporation today announced the release of Mac OS X version of its flagship product SecureXML Digital Signature. SecureXML makes it extremely easy for software developers and system integrators to add industry standard digital signature to their web and standalone applications. SecureXML provides functionality to sign...
Anonymous Machine Design 06-16-2005 Electromagnetic art Byline: Anonymous Volume: 77 Number: 12 ISSN: 00249114 Publication Date: 06-16-2005 Page: 135 Section: BACKTALK Type: Periodical Language: English Professor of Physics John Belcher and his colleagues at the MIT Center for Educational Computer Initiatives came up with a unique way for...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 16, 1996--From hand-held devices to groupware applications, the bottom line for technology is a successful and satisfying experience. That is what you can expect if the product's interactive design can fulfill the criteria established from the 1995 ACM/interactions Design Award. The Association for Computing Machinery's...
A proposal to expand Wisconsin's ozone-nonattainment zone to 11 counties, including Fond du Lac, Walworth, Dodge and Winnebago counties, has been killed by Gov. Jim Doyle in what one state regulatory official called "a political decision." The proposal, which was discussed at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources'...
KENNESAW, Ga.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 6, 1999-- Tridia Corporation today announced that the Boy Scouts of America BSA has selected Tridia's CrosstieR to provide browser access to their mission critical financial applications. By leveraging the browser-based desktop with Java applet capabilities, Crosstie provides robust terminal emulation to any platform. Written...
General Eastern Instruments, a business unit of GE Industrial Systems, Optica Series uses a chilled mirror hygrometer to provide long-term precision humidity measurements. With NIST traceability, the Optica Series can be used as a transfer standard to calibrate weather and humidity telemetry and industrial and building...
