Icons Used at Mindprod.com

Canadian Mind Products Icons Legend
Icon	Appearance	Meaning
	red moose	contacting Canadian Mind Products née Consolidated Moose Pasture
	home	Go to the mindprod.com home page.
	left arrow	Go to the previous page, one higher up in the hierarchy, closer to the home page.
	right arrow	Go to the next page in a set of closely related pages. At the bottom left of the page when available.
	magnifying glass	Bring up a frame to do a quick find of an item in the current Mindprod glossary.
	LCD display	Remove the frame for doing quick finds. Go back to full screen mode.
	magnifying glass on planet	Search Google for the topic of the current page.
	down arrow	Jump to the bottom of the page
	up arrow	Jump to the top of the page
	chasing arrows	Links to related material.
	small chasing arrows	In an index, indicates an empty cross-referencing entry that points to the real entry. Also indicates the main redirect link to the main body of the discussion.
	blue Wiki arrow	HTTP link to something outside the mindprod.com website.
	Wiki flower	HTTP link to the WikiPedia website.
	brown Wiki arrow	FTP link to something outside the mindprod.com website.
	Acrobat logo	Link to Adobe PDF document outside the mindprod.com website.
	sledge hammer	Link to Sourceforge.net
	yellow star	view newsgroup via Google Groups.
	orange star	view newsgroup via a conventional newsreader.
	pencil	Link to a major essay.
	nutshell	Concise summary.
	onion	Very bad product to be avoided. The term onion came originally from Jerry Pournelle.
	orchid	Very good product. Highly recommended. The term orchid came originally from Jerry Pournelle.
	raspberry	Bronx cheer. Warning of a fault or gotcha.
	strawberry	Something I love or recommend.
	green plus	advantage
	red minus	disadvantage
	rat	Something dishonest or crooked.
	Sun	Something from Sun Microsystems, the creators of Java.
	bug	A bug, or bug report.
	curve ahead	a gotcha. Something that behaves quite differently than you would expect.
	sprout, new leaf	Something new.
	fresh green leaf	a coding tip.
	light bulb	Idea how to improve something.
	broken link	A link I know to be broken for which I have no replacement. If you know of one, please let me know.
	belly up turtle	Tombstone for defunct company or product.
	elephant	A very large web page. It will take some time to load.
	coffee bean	Java needed to view this page.
	Euro	CurrCon Java Applet used to display prices in international currencies on this page.
	listing	Link to a program source code listing.
	A	Link to documentation about an AWT component.
	tire swing	Link to to documentation about a Swing component.
	grey butterfly	Link to documentation about a Collection class.
	microscope	Link to get more detail about a product.
	green down arrow	Link to download something.
	Go ball	Link to execute something on-line as an Applet or Java Web Start application.
	shopping cart	Buy something on-line.
	rose	Advertisement or affiliate. A company that pays me a commission if you buy something (or sometimes just click through) to their site. The Google ads also pay for click throughs. Google ads, Amazon and Out Personals in particularly pay the ISP bills. Without them I could not afford the expensive hobby of hosting this website.
	green check mark	Means yes, correct or true. Used in comparition charts.
	red X	Means no, incorrect or false. Used in comparition charts.
	amber ?	Means unknown, information not available. Used in comparition charts.
	blue Democrat donkey	Means Democrat. Used in tables.
	red Republican elephant	Means Republican. Used in tables.
	dollar sign	Something you need to pay for.
	blue dolphin	Something free you don’t have to pay for.
	red push pin	something important
	ring binder	journal
	red triangle road caution sign	caution
	computer	Computer Buyers’ Glossary
	rainbow butterfly	gay glossary
	coffee cup	Java glossary
	snail	slow
	mailbox	postal mailing address
	phone	telephone number, phone list
	fax	fax number
	snowflake	website URL
	ID card	vCard
	certificate	public Java code-signing certificate
	lock	public PGP encryption keys
	rainbow ball	gay
	red ball	list of instructions
	ssl	link to an secure https page.
	Applet	link to an Applet
	webstart	link to a Java Web Start app
	bgloss	link to something in the buyers’ glossary
	ggloss	link to something in the gay and black glossary
	jgloss	link to something in the Java glossary
	project	link to a student project
	Jesus Fish	quotation by a Christian on religious matters.
	bible	something in the bible
	find	find/search
	flame	something controversial. Strong opinions.
	palette	Acknowlegments for art work.
	quote	introduces a quotation. There is no corresponding close quote icon.
	squirrel	caching

Video File Icons

Video Links Legend
streaming or downloadable
Click corresponding icon to download player.
Apple QuickTime
BitTorrent
DivX
DVD
Flash animations
Google
Microsoft Media Player
Microsoft Power Point
mp3
mp4
Real Player
VHS tape
transcript
unknown
You Tube

Sound File Icons

Audio Links Legend
streaming or downloadable
Click corresponding icon to download player.
Real Audio
compressed mp3
super compressed mp4
Microsoft Media Player
MIDI music files
uncompressed au
Microsoft uncompressed wav
unknown
transcript