- 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 file with the extension .applescript that contains statements in the AppleScript scripting language.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a software environment in which a movie track or set of images may be defined before importing them into a movie.
Industry:Software; Computer
Any of a family of lock types characterised by some combination of the behaviours of spinlocks and mutex (sleep) locks.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, an action to perform when a programme reaches a certain point in its execution, such as logging output to the console. The default breakpoint action is to pause programme execution.
Industry:Software; Computer
A protocol that defines the use of public key cryptography for initial authentication in Kerberos.
Industry:Software; Computer
The part of a file that historically held an application’s resources. Use of the resource fork is discouraged in Mac OS X, but you can store resources in the data fork.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a two-part compound statement that contains a series of AppleScript statements, followed by an error handler to be invoked if any of those statements cause an error.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, the Info window for inspecting and editing settings for file, framework, and folder references.
Industry:Software; Computer
In unidirectional text, the standard text-insertion caret. In mixed-directional text, one caret that appears at the place where the user will insert the next character, given the current keyboard script. At a boundary between two direction runs, the single caret can correspond to either the primary line direction or the secondary line direction. Because changing the keyboard script in that situation changes the caret location, the single caret is also called a moving caret or jumping caret.
Industry:Software; Computer
The difference between an original analogue signal value and its quantized digital representation. Quantization can sometimes results in a signal-correlated noise called quantization noise. See also dither.
Industry:Software; Computer
