Presto may refer to:
Computing
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Presto (browser engine)
Presto was the browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013, at which time Opera switched to using the Blink engine that was originally created for Chromium. ...
, an engine previously used in the Opera web browser
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Presto (operating system)
Xandros, Inc. was a software company which sold Xandros Desktop, a Linux distribution. The name Xandros was derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros.
Xandros was founded in May 2001 by Linux Global Partners (Will Roseman a ...
, a Linux-based OS by Xandros
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Presto (SQL query engine)
Presto (including PrestoDB, and PrestoSQL which was re-branded to Trino) is a distributed query engine for big data using the SQL query language. Its architecture allows users to query data sources such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, AWS S3, Allu ...
, a distributed query engine
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Presto (animation software)
Presto is the proprietary software developed and used in-house by Pixar Animation Studios in the animation of its features and short films. Presto is not available for sale and is only used by Pixar. As a result, little is known outside Pixar about ...
, the in-house proprietary 3D animation software created and used by Disney and Pixar
Music
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''Presto'' (music), a fast tempo marking
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''Presto'' (album) a 1989 album by Rush, or the album's title track
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"Presto" (rapper) (1992–2024), German rapper
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"Presto" (song), by No Money Enterprise, 2020
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Presto! Recording Studios
Presto! Recording Studios is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and run by brothers Mike Mogis and A.J. Mogis. The studio began in the brothers' North Platte, Nebraska basement and around 1995 moved to the basement of a Lincoln home. First known as W ...
, a studio in Nebraska, United States
Companies and organizations
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Presto (restaurant technology platform)
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Presto (streaming company)
Presto was an Australian media streaming company which offered subscriptions to unlimited viewing of selected films, and from 2015, TV series. The service, initially owned wholly by Foxtel, launched on 13 March 2014 featuring films exclusively.
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, an Australian streaming company
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Presto (UK supermarket)
Presto Foodmarkets was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in Great Britain, which first appeared in the early 1960s. While the fate of most of the chain's stores was conversion to Safeway, the final stores still trading as Presto wer ...
, a grocery chain in the U.K. from the 1960s to 1998
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Presto! Recording Studios
Presto! Recording Studios is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and run by brothers Mike Mogis and A.J. Mogis. The studio began in the brothers' North Platte, Nebraska basement and around 1995 moved to the basement of a Lincoln home. First known as W ...
, in Lincoln, Nebraska
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Presto Studios
Presto Studios was a computer game development company of the 1990s. The company is notable for its award-winning series ''The Journeyman Project'' as well as '' Myst III: Exile, the'' 2001 sequel to Cyan's Myst series.
In August 2002, Presto S ...
, a computer game development company
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National Presto Industries
National Presto Industries is a company founded in 1905 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Originally called "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works" the company changed its name to the "National Pressure Cooker Company" in 1929 and then National Presto Industr ...
, manufacturer of kitchen appliances
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Great Taste Coffee Makers
The Great Taste Coffee Makers were a basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) from 1975 to 1992. It was one of the founding members of the PBA, the Asia's first and oldest professional league. The franchise was ...
, a.k.a. Presto, a Philippine Basketball Association team
* Presto AB, Swedish manufacturer and international reseller of protection against fire and accidents.
Transportation
* ''Presto'', later name of the
tug ''Empire Sara''
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Rinspeed Presto The Rinspeed Presto is a concept car from the Swiss company Rinspeed, unveiled in 2002. At the touch of a button, it would expand it from a 2.7 metre, two-seat cabrio to a 3.6 metre, four-seater. It has a Pre-Peg Composite plastic body and runs on ...
, a Swiss concept car
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Hyundai Excel
The Hyundai Excel (), also known as the Hyundai Pony, Hyundai Pony Excel, Hyundai Presto, Mitsubishi Precis and Hyundai X2, is an automobile which was produced by Hyundai Motor Company from 1985 to 2000. It was the first front-wheel drive car pr ...
, a car also known as the Hyundai Presto in South Korea
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Presto card
The Presto card (stylized as PRESTO) is a contactless smart card automated fare collection system used on participating public transit systems in the province of Ontario, Canada, specifically in Greater Toronto, Hamilton, and Ottawa. Presto car ...
, a smart card payment system used in Ontario
Other uses
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''Presto'' (film), a 2008 short film by Pixar
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Presto, Bolivia
Presto is a Bolivian town located in Jaime Zudáñez Province, Chuquisaca Department, 95 km east of Sucre
Sucre () is the Capital city, capital of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the List of cities in Bolivia, 6th mo ...
, a town in Bolivia
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Presto, Pennsylvania
Presto is an unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Chartiers Creek, southwest of Pittsburgh. Presto has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer th ...
, an unincorporated community in the United States
* ''Presto!'', an ATM network owned by
Publix Super Markets
Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and ...
* Presto, a pseudonym of Jonathan Swift; see
Chelsea Bun House
The old Chelsea Bun House was a shop in Chelsea which sold buns in the 18th century. It was famous for its Chelsea bun and also did a great trade in hot cross buns at Easter. It was patronised by royalty such as Kings George II, George III ...
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Earl "Presto" Johnson, American magician
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Alice S. Presto, American suffragist and politician
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