- 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.
In QuickTime, a piece of software that is responsible for reading and writing a media structure’s data. The data handler provides data input and output services to the media structure’s media handler. See also media handler.
Industry:Software; Computer
The primary means of displaying screen information on Mac computers.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object supplied by AppleScript Studio that supplies data to a table view or other view with rows and columns.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a class that specifies a time, day of the month, month, and year.
Industry:Software; Computer
A menu that contains commands for managing document windows. The menu lists an application’s open document windows, including minimized windows, in the order in which they were opened.
Industry:Software; Computer
A password for an Internet server, such as a web or FTP server. Internet password items on the keychain include attributes such as the security domain and IP address.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dimensionless unit for expressing the ratio of two quantities, abbreviated as dB. The decibel difference between two power levels is equal to 10 times the common logarithm of their ratio. The decibel difference between two voltage levels is equal to 20 times the common logarithm of their ratio. Decibel values are typically associated with a standard voltage or power level. For example, acoustic levels are commonly referenced to 0 dB SPL, equivalent to 20 µPa (micropascals). See also SPL.
Industry:Software; Computer
The application selected by Launch Services, according to its own implicit binding rules, in which to open a given document or URL in the absence of an explicit binding preference set by the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
A systemwide process that is responsible for rudimentary screen displays, window compositing and management, event routing, and cursor management. It coordinates low-level windowing behavior and enforces a fundamental uniformity in what appears on the screen.
Industry:Software; Computer
