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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
Key-value coding. A mechanism used in Cocoa and WebObjects for accessing object properties indirectly by key. See also keypath.
Industry:Software; Computer
A cryptographic key calculated or issued for use only for the duration of a specific communication session. Session keys are used, for example, by the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and Kerberos protocols.
Industry:Software; Computer
Grand Central Dispatch, a Mac OS X technology (available in Mac OS X v10.6 and later) for executing asynchronous tasks concurrently.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill that varies along an axis between two defined end points. All points that lie on a line perpendicular to the axis have the same color value. Also called a linear gradient.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a parameter that is identified by a label. See also positional parameter.
Industry:Software; Computer
In refactoring code, the method to use to set the value of the transformation item.
Industry:Software; Computer
GNU debugger. gdb is a powerful, source-level debugger with a command-line interface. It’s a popular open source debugger and is included with the Mac OS X developer tools.
Industry:Software; Computer
In surround sound and immersive audio, the real or apparent horizontal angle of an audio source referenced to a line drawn from the listener’s head to a point directly ahead of the listener.
Industry:Software; Computer
The font used for labels with controls such as sliders and icon bevel buttons. It is 10-point Lucida Grande Regular.
Industry:Software; Computer
The fourth bit in a resource’s permissions code. When this bit is set to s , the system allows the process running it to masquerade as another user. For example, -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel traceroute allows the process running the traceroute utility to run as root.
Industry:Software; Computer
