CDE Computer Desktop Encyclopedia - The Indispensible Reference on Computers
Our Windows app is the best way to look up terms in CDE. With "virtual hypertext," it is the only lookup engine on the market that links every term with every other. Downloaded and updated from the Web, CD launches your browser for external links. More details. Our iPhone app includes all the text for instan lookup, and it handles dashes, slashes and mixed punctuation like the powerful search engines. All images are retrieved and
cached when you need them to keep the initial download and future updates small and quick. More details.

Our Android app follows in the footsteps of two years worth of experience with our iPhone app. It includes all the text for instant lookup and handles punctuation like the powerful search engines. All images are retrieved and cached when you need them to keep the initial download and future updates small and quick. Offer all of our 25,000+ definitions on your Web site.
An invaluable reference for any technical site both public or private. We can host the content, and you can be up and running in minutes, or we can provide you with an XML feed, and you can host on your server. More details.

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Not abbreviated, these are the full CDE definitions with all images. Download the free app.

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We created our first glossary in print in 1980 and over the years published 12 editions in English, four in Spanish and one each in French, Portuguese, Korean and Hebrew. Our last book was 2001.
Perhaps some day we will publish on paper again, perhaps not. The high-tech world moves too fast for the print world. Book history.