- 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 32-bit value that uniquely identifies the data type of an atom. It is normally an OSType value, rendered by four ASCII characters. An atom’s data type helps determine how the atom’s contents are interpreted.
Industry:Software; Computer
A filename extension claimed by at least one application registered with Launch Services. Compare valid extension.
Industry:Software; Computer
A format for providing scriptability information in the form of property list files, consisting of a script suite file together with a corresponding script terminology file. Compare scripting definition format.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the CFM-based architecture, a code fragment is the basic unit for executable code and its static data. All fragments share fundamental properties such as the basic structure and the method of addressing code and data. A fragment can easily access code or data contained in another fragment. In addition, fragments that export items can be shared among multiple clients. A code fragment is structured according to the Preferred Executable Format (PEF).
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a sample in a sequence of temporally compressed samples that does not rely on other samples in the sequence for any of its information. Key frames are placed into temporally compressed sequences at a frequency that is determined by the key frame rate. Typically, the term key frame is used with respect to temporally compressed sequences of image data. See also key frame rate, stencil buffer.
Industry:Software; Computer
Apple’s multimedia authoring and rendering technology, implemented as a set of Macintosh system extensions or a Windows dynamic-link library that other code can use to create and manipulate time-based data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A button that opens Help Viewer to the help content appropriate for the context. A help button is a round button with a question mark.
Industry:Software; Computer
UNIX file system. An industry-standard file-system format used in UNIX-like operating systems such as BSD. UFS in Mac OS X is a derivative of 4.4BSD UFS. Its disk layout is not compatible with other BSD UFS implementations.
Industry:Software; Computer
Resource Interchange File Format. A minor variation on IFF that uses little-endian integers.
Industry:Software; Computer
Symmetric multiprocessing. A feature of an operating system in which two or more processors are managed by one kernel, sharing the same memory and having equal access to I/O devices, and in which any task, including kernel tasks, can run on any processor.
Industry:Software; Computer
