- Industria: Computer; Software
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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.
In Core Audio, a hand-off point for audio data entering or leaving an audio unit. A connection has one or more channels. See also channel.
Industry:Software; Computer
A component containing data and, optionally, executable code that helps to shape the sound of synthesized speech.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A text-based login environment that also displays system log messages, kernel panics, and other information. (2) A special window in Mac OS X that displays messages that would be printed to the text console if the GUI were not in use. This window also displays output written to the standard error and standard output streams by applications launched from the Finder.
Industry:Software; Computer
A sequence of actions to accomplish some task. In cryptography, refers to a sequence of actions, usually mathematical calculations, performed on data to encrypt or decrypt it.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In OpenGL, a set of OpenGL state variables that affect how drawing is performed for a drawable object attached to that context. Also called a rendering context. (2) In the Mac OS X printing system, a pointer to a custom data structure that contains state information shared among the functions in a printing dialog extension.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control for displaying data in a list. The primary list may by accompanied by additional columns that display secondary attributes about that items in the list. Hierarchies are presented through the use of disclosure triangles.
Industry:Software; Computer
A lightweight reference to files and folders in Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file systems. An alias allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple copies of these items. Aliases are not as fragile as symbolic links because they identify the volume and location on disk of a referenced file or folder; the file or folder can be moved around without breaking the alias. See also symbolic link.
Industry:Software; Computer
A condition that the target computer or volume of an installation must meet in order for the installation to take place. The two types of installation requirements are system requirements and volume requirements.
Industry:Software; Computer
An alternate form of a glyph whose use depends on the glyph’s placement in a word.
Industry:Software; Computer
