- 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 Component Manager–based Simulator that adds an audio feature to a Mac OS X application. Audio units can provide effects such as filtering and reverb, MIDI-based music synthesis, audio data format conversions, mixing, panning, sound generation, and audio playback. Unlike application-specific plug-ins, audio units are available systemwide. Multiple instances of a single audio unit can run simultaneously.
Industry:Software; Computer
Computer object code that is processed by a virtual machine. The virtual machine converts generalised machine instructions into specific machine instructions (instructions that a computer’s processor can understand). Bytecode is the result of compiling source language statements written in any language that supports this approach. The best-known language today that uses the bytecode and virtual machine approach is Java. In Java, bytecode is contained in a binary file with a .class suffix. (Strictly speaking, “bytecode” means that the individual instructions are one byte long, as opposed to PowerPC code, for example, which is four bytes long.) See also VM.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) For databases, a mechanism that connects your application to a particular database server. For each type of server you use, you need a separate adaptor. WebObjects provides an adaptor for databases conforming to JDBC. (2) In WebObjects, a process (or a part of one) that connects WebObjects applications to an HTTP server.
Industry:Software; Computer
In image processing, an equation commonly used for transforming pixel intensities in an image that is a summation of n factors and coefficients in the form of axe n + bx n –1 + ... cx 0.
Industry:Software; Computer
XML-based, lightweight, platform-agnostic protocol used to exchange information in a decentralized, distributed environment. The protocol defines the XML elements that must be used to compose a message and how the data in a message should be processed. SOAP was originally an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol, but as of version 1.2 of the W3C specification, the term is no longer an acronym.
Industry:Software; Computer
The part of a scroll bar that the user drags to view other parts of a document. The scroller size reflects how much of the document is visible; the smaller the scroller, the less of the content the user can see at that time. The scroller represents the relative location, in the whole document, of the portion that can be seen in the window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A one-, two-, three-, or four-dimensional environment whose components (or channels) represent intensity values. For example, RGB space is a three-dimensional colour space whose stimuli are the red, green, and blue intensities that make up a given color; and red, green, and blue are colour channels.
Industry:Software; Computer
The indexed position of a 2-byte Unicode character in a text buffer, starting at zero for the first character. Sequential values for character offset correspond to the storage order of the characters. Compare edge offset.
Industry:Software; Computer
A piece of code that exercises some part of an application. A unit test provides a specific input and expects the application to return a specific output.
Industry:Software; Computer
