- 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.
Mach object file format. The preferred object file format for Mac OS X. See also PEF.
Industry:Software; Computer
A graphical application used to build and debug Dashboard widgets.
Industry:Software; Computer
An HTML-based programme that runs in the Dashboard layer of the system.
Industry:Software; Computer
An AppleScript class used for data that do not belong to any of the other AppleScript classes; see the data class.
Industry:Software; Computer
A format that encodes each colour (and alpha) channel, one after the other, for every pixel. In contrast to planar image formats which encode an entire image using one colour at a time, interleaved image formats alternate through each channel, encoding data for all channels simultaneously within each pixel. For example, an interleaved image would encode an image in a RGBRGBRGB fashion, whereas a planar image would encode the same image as RRRGGGBBB.
Industry:Software; Computer
A data storage and retrieval system. Database servers typically run on a dedicated computer and are accessed by client applications over a network.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control that provides a standardised look for column browsers (such as seen in the column view of a Finder window or in an Open dialog) and scrolling lists (such as seen in the list view of a Finder window).
Industry:Software; Computer
A dispatch source used to process events arriving on a Mach port.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operator used in a query that indicates matching on any character. In Search Kit, the wildcard character is the asterisk. Depending on usage, the wildcard character can indicate prefix, suffix, or substring searching. See also Roman keyboard script, query.
Industry:Software; Computer
Algorithmic reduction of data size to improve storage or transmission efficiency. Data compression can be lossy or lossless. Compression is a special case of encoding. See also lossless compression, lossy compression, perceptual coding.
Industry:Software; Computer
