- 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.
(1) Virtual memory outside the protected partition in which the kernel resides. Applications, plug-ins, and other types of modules typically run in user space. Compare kernel space. (2) In Quartz 2D, the device-independent coordinate system used for drawing.
Industry:Software; Computer
The display of text in inverse video or with a coloured background. Highlighting in display text corresponds to a selection range in source text.
Industry:Software; Computer
Placement of controls in a window so that overall, they are visually balanced across an imaginary vertical line in the centre of the window.
Industry:Software; Computer
In image processing, the process of converting vertex and pixel data to fragments, each of which corresponds to a pixel in the framebuffer.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a file used to build a product. Source files include source code files, resource files, image files, and others.
Industry:Software; Computer
The placement of controls or text where every item is centred on an imaginary vertical line in the centre of a window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A window’s user-defined size and position. See also standard state, zoom button.
Industry:Software; Computer
A group with special administrative privileges. For example, only members of the admin group can open locked system preferences or instal software. See also wheel group.
Industry:Software; Computer
Any of a family of lock types characterised by continuously polling to see if a lock is available, rather than putting the waiting thread to sleep.
Industry:Software; Computer
