- 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.
The sequence of operations performed by an application immediately on being launched, indicated visually to the user by the application’s icon bouncing in the Dock.
Industry:Software; Computer
A function in a printing plug-in that returns a pointer to an instance of the requested interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
An HTTP adaptor based on a programming interface specific to a particular web server. It allows CGI-like tasks to run as part of the main server process, avoiding the creation and termination of a process for each request.
Industry:Software; Computer
A system feature that provides fine-grained control of the ability of processes to access system resources, therefore limiting the amount of damage that can be done by a malicious hacker who gains control of an application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In C++, the class from which another class (a subclass) inherits. It can also be used to specify a class from which all classes in a hierarchy ultimately derive (also known as a root class).
Industry:Software; Computer
In the kernel, a socket philtre that is automatically enabled for sockets of the type specified.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X application programming interface that enables a running programme to open other applications, documents, or URLs in a way similar to the Finder or the Dock.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Cocoa framework that implements an application’s user interface. The AppKit provides a basic programme structure for applications that draw on the screen and respond to events.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach VM, a memory object that holds modified pages that originally belonged to another memory object. It is used when an object that was duplicated in a copy-on-write fashion is modified. If a page is not found in this shadow object, the original object is referenced.
Industry:Software; Computer
The DRM (digital rights management) system built into Apple’s QuickTime technology and used by the iPod music player, the iTunes music application, and the iTunes store. These systems use FairPlay to encrypt some AAC files to restrict their playback to authorised devices.
Industry:Software; Computer
