- 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 system that requires authorization to perform a privileged operations.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a view of the state of the files in project. Snapshots allow you to experiment freely with refactoring operations.
Industry:Software; Computer
Small buttons that appear on the scroll control that let the user incrementally advance the scrollers without dragging.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a value indicating the degree to which a parent process and its child process share pages in the parent process’s address space. A memory page can be inherited as copy-on-write, shared, or not at all.
Industry:Software; Computer
The number that is multiplied to each of the factors in a polynomial equation. For example, in the equation x2 + 2x + 1, the coefficients are 1, 2, and 1.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Audio Queue Services, a software object of type AudioQueueRef, used for recording or playing back audio. There are two distinct types of audio queue. A recording audio queue (sometimes called an input audio queue) typically accepts incoming audio from a hardware device and uses a callback function on its output side. A playback audio queue (sometimes called an output audio queue) has a callback on its input side, and typically sends its output audio to external hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
To return an audio unit to its unconfigured state. Compare reset.
Industry:Software; Computer
The white space between the glyph origin and the visible beginning of the glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control for one of a set of mutually exclusive, but related, choices.
Industry:Software; Computer
An interface provided by an I/O Kit family, that enables a user process (which can’t call a kernel-resident driver or other service directly) to access hardware. In the kernel, this interface appears as a driver object called a user client; in user space, it is called a device interface and is implemented as a CFPlugin object. See also device interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
