- Industry: 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.
A fill that varies from one color to another. See also axial gradient, radial gradient.
Industry:Software; Computer
Putting code and resources in the prescribed directory locations inside application bundles. Application package is sometimes used synonymously with application bundle.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dictionary, specified in an application’s bundle information property list, that declares a particular URL type that the application claims to handle. Compare type-definition dictionary.
Industry:Software; Computer
The matching of a query string, typically consisting of a representative portion of a document, to indexed documents. A match occurs when Search Kit determines significant content similarity between the query and an indexed document. Search Kit supports similarity searching in vector and inverted-vector indexes. Similarity searching also works in inverted indexes in Search Kit, but performance is worse. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
A rounded rectangle with a text label on it, which the user clicks to perform an instantaneous action, such as saving a document, completing operations defined by a dialog, or acknowledging an error message.
Industry:Software; Computer
The successful access to information and information technologies by people with disabilities. Mac OS X provides support for users with disabilities in the form of VoiceOver (Apple’s full-featured screen reading technology), speech recognition and text-to-speech features, and mouse and keyboard alternatives. Mac OS X includes the accessibility programming interface, which defines how an assistive technology, such as a refreshable braille display or head-tracking mouse, can communicate with and control an application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a message that contains neither references to ports nor pointers to data. Compare nonsimple message.
Industry:Software; Computer
A measurement of biological matter used for identification—for example, fingerprints, retinal scans, and face recognition.
Industry:Software; Computer
