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  2. Screen burn-in - Wikipedia

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    Burn-in on a monitor, when severe as in this "please wait" message, is visible even when the monitor is switched off. Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic visual display such as a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in an older computer monitor or television set.

  3. Window (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Window border is a window decoration component provided by some window managers, that appears around the active window. Some window managers may also display a border around background windows . Typically window borders enable the window to be resized or moved by dragging the border.

  4. Glass coloring and color marking - Wikipedia

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    In New England some houses built more than 300 years ago have window glass which is lightly tinted violet because of this chemical change, and such glass panes are prized as antiques. This process is widely confused with the formation of "desert amethyst glass", in which glass exposed to desert sunshine with a high ultraviolet component ...

  5. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    A standard television receiver screen, a modern LCD panel, has over six million pixels, and they are all individually powered by a wire network embedded in the screen. The fine wires, or pathways, form a grid with vertical wires across the whole screen on one side of the screen and horizontal wires across the whole screen on the other side of ...

  6. Film tinting - Wikipedia

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    Film tinting is the process of adding color to black-and-white film, usually by means of soaking the film in dye and staining the film emulsion.The effect is that all of the light shining through is filtered, so that what would be white light becomes light of some color.

  7. Screensaver - Wikipedia

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    A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). [ 1 ]

  8. Display motion blur - Wikipedia

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    Sharp Corporation use a "scanning backlight" [13] [14] which rapidly flashes the backlight in a sequence from the top to the bottom of the screen, during every frame. Nvidia has licensed a strobe backlight [ 15 ] technology called LightBoost to display manufacturers.

  9. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The white screen of death that appears on Dell computers. A White Screen of Death appears on several other operating systems, content management systems, [6] and on some BIOS, such as from Dell. It can be seen on iOS 7, and also when a white iPhone 5 or later or a white 5th generation iPod Touch screen freezes. Everything on the screen but the ...