- 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.
(1) A pattern or model designed to guide development in accordance with a specific predefined format or structure. (2) In Xcode, a structured set of default resources (files, folders, frameworks, and so forth) necessary for a specific type of programming project. (2) In Quartz Composer, a composition file that contains a basic set of patches for a particular purpose. (3) In a WebObjects component, a file containing HTML that specifies the overall appearance of a Web page generated from the component.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel resource that triggers an event at a specified interval. The event can occur only once or can be recurring. Timers are one of the input sources for run loops. Timers are also implemented at higher levels of the system, such as CFTimer in Core Foundation and NSTimer in Cocoa.
Industry:Software; Computer
To bring a running application to the front of the screen, allowing the user to interact with it. Compare launch.
Industry:Software; Computer
A symbol, word, or phrase that derives a value from another value or pair of values. In Search Kit, operators include AND , OR , NOT , parentheses, quotation marks, and several others. Search Kit interprets operators and determines the user’s intended search type according to the operators’ meanings.
Industry:Software; Computer
A variable, measurable property whose value is a determinant of the characteristics of a system; e.g. temperature, pressure, and density are parameters of the atmosphere.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
Data, usually a character string, used to authenticate a user for a service or application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, an attribute in an entity that uniquely identifies rows of that entity. For example, the Employee entity can contain an empID attribute that uniquely identifies each employee.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In databases in general, the set of values that describes a single instance of an entity. (2) In AppleScript, an unordered collection of properties, identified by unique labels.
Industry:Software; Computer
