Letter T

Tablet             A computer consisting of just an approx A5 sized screen with no
                   keyboard or mouse and used user's touch to control it. Examples
                   include Apple iPad, Android and Amazon's Kindle tablet.

TCP/IP             Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The main protocol
                   or standards used to communicate over the internet.

Teaming            Teaming is used in networks to combine two networks cards to appear
                   as one card to improve bandwidth and failover.

Telnet             Program used to login directly to other computers over the
                   internet and enter commands. See SSH.
        
Terminal Server    Used by Windows NT/2000 to allow client computers to logon to
                   another PC or server without being at the server itself.
				   
Texas Instruments  A US Company that produces calculators, computers, and many
                   other exectronic devices.

TFT                Thin Film Transistor. Provides very flat Liquid Crystal
                   Displays (LCD) for high performance graphics for Laptop
                   computers.


Thread             A concurrent process or execution of code, independent from other code in the same program.

Thunderbird        A free open source E-mail program by Mozilla used on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Thunderbolt        New connector found on Apple Macs for high performance connectivity
                   with 10Gbps speed to allow connection to RAID arrays and video 
                   capture devices. 

TI-99/4A           The TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A were early home computers by Texas Instruments.

T&L                Transform and Lighting are features of modern graphics card
                   Graphics Processor for high resolution and detailed graphics.
				   
TLS                Transport Layer Security. Replaces older SSL methods to encrypt data
                   over networks.

Touch              A method of user input using user's fingers on either a touchpad
                   or touch screen to select or manipulate items on the screen.

Trojan             A malicious program disguised as another program that
                   looks harmless eg demos, games, prank, tool etc. See Virus.
                									 
TrueType           Name of outline type fonts used on PCs. (TTF fonts)

TV Out             Television output. Some graphics cards allow TV and Video 
                   records to be attached to TV out ports on some graphic cards
                   such as the ATI All-in-Wonder.

TV Tuner           Add on card that provides access Television channels.

TWAIN              Technology Without An Interesting Name. This is a standard
                   API for Scanners and Cameras to grab pictures or video into a 
                   computer.