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  • noun Plural form of frontend.

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  • · You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • The reason I wrote it this way is to have multiple frontends, and in fact RainCT wrote a simple web frontend.

    New Acire and Python Snippets Website | jonobacon@home 2010

  • Back In Time is a time-machine like interface and system for Linux, with KDE and GNOME frontends.

    Time Machine for Linux - UFies.org 2009

  • My favorites are Adium, Pidgin AND Meebo, because they are all frontends to libpurple.

    Five Best Instant Messengers | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Back In Time is a time-machine like interface and system for Linux, with KDE and GNOME frontends.

    UFies.org: April 2009 Archives 2009

  • What I'd like to see is Old School products with professional-looking, good-to-look-at frontends; the art doesn't have to be "dungeonpunk" in fact it should be the antithesis of that, but it has to look like something that people will want to play, read and look at.

    Live and Learn James Maliszewski 2008

  • Of the many HTPC frontends in development and circulation, too many like to bombard the user with overwrought textures that draw attention away from the most important thing of all: the media itself.

    Cool: Aeon Project - A New Interface for XBMC | Fused Film 2008

  • Picasa wow latest version the subtle blue outlines and built in frontends to Gmail its like noone else ever owned/made Picasa. reply

    Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot Marshall Kirkpatrick 2005

  • It even comes with Web and Cocoa frontends for metadata editing.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • · TagLib supports Unicode - both ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis standards are designed to support Unicode, so is TagLib (many tagging libraries and frontends are not) · TagLib is extensible - TagLib does not implement every feature of ID3v2, but does instead mades it possible for application authors to extend TagLib to support the specific features that they need in their applications

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

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