- 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, an atom that contains only data and no other atoms.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill that varies radially along an axis between two defined ends, which typically are both circles. Points share the same colour value if they lie on the circumference of a circle whose centre point falls on the axis. The radius of the circular sections of the gradient are defined by the radii of the end circles; the radius of each intermediate circle varies linearly from one end to the other.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of key-value pairs giving information about an application, stored in a file named Info.plist in its application bundle.
Industry:Software; Computer
The capability of many programmes and operating systems to display advice or instructions for using their features when so requested by the user, as by a screen button or menu item or a function key.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, a software object of type AudioFileStreamID, which represents data obtained from a TCP stream and supports manipulation of that data. See also TCP/IP.
Industry:Software; Computer
A window that applies to the user’s current task. Active windows are distinguished from inactive windows by the look of the title bar and the window controls. The active window is typically the frontmost non-floating window, but multiple windows can be active simultaneously. See also key window, main window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A representation of a signal chain comprising an interconnection of audio units. Also called an AUGraph or graph. Core Audio represents such an interconnected network as a software object of type AUGraph. Audio processing graphs must end in an output unit. See also audio unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A system framework that includes and links with constituent subframeworks and other public frameworks. An umbrella framework “contains” the system software defining an application environment or a layer of system software. See also subframework.
Industry:Software; Computer
A transmission path on which signals can be dropped off or picked up by devices attached to it. Only devices addressed by the signals pay attention to them; the others discard the signals. Buses exist both within the CPU and connect it to physical memory and peripheral devices. Examples of I/O buses on Darwin are PCI, SCSI, USB, and FireWire. For its meaning in Core Audio, see element.
Industry:Mining
The white space on the right side of the glyph; this value may or may not be equal to the value of the left-side bearing.
Industry:Software; Computer
