- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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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 structure through which an application communicates with a specific speech synthesizer and voice. An application may have more than one speech channel open at one time, but a speech channel may not be associated with more than one synthesizer and voice at one time.
Industry:Software; Computer
A per-user server (also known as the pasteboard) that enables the transfer of data between applications, including the Finder. This server is shared by all running applications and contains data that the user has cut or copied, as well as other data that one application wants to transfer to another, such as in dragging operations. Data in the Clipboard is associated with a name that indicates how it is to be used. You implement data-transfer operations with the Clipboard using Core Foundation Pasteboard Services or the Cocoa NSPasteboard class. See also pasteboard.
Industry:Software; Computer
The rules used by Launch Services to determine an item’s default application according to the binding information in the Launch Services database.
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
The ability for a computer to understand spoken commands or responses.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) For audio units, to return an audio unit to its just-initialized state. (2) For codecs, to clear the codec’s input buffer and return the codec to its just-initialized state.
Industry:Software; Computer
The matching of the terms in a query string to indexed terms using exact, character-for-character matching. Each term is matched separately. In Search Kit, by default, spaces between terms behave like Boolean AND operators. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
