- 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.
An attack on a communication channel in which the attacker can intercept messages going between two parties without the communicating parties’ knowledge. Typically, the man in the middle substitutes messages and even cryptographic keys to impersonate one party to the other.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) Computer hardware, typically excluding the CPU and system memory, that can be controlled and can send and receive data. Examples of devices include displays, disc drives, buses, and keyboards. (2) In audio generally, a piece of equipment or a software entity that produces, transforms, transmits, receives, or stores audio data. In MIDI, a piece of equipment or a software entity that responds to MIDI control or provides MIDI data. In Audio Queue Services, a source or destination for audio, such as a microphone or a loudspeaker.
Industry:Software; Computer
The number of pixels of the advance for the glyph as actually drawn on the screen.
Industry:Software; Computer
A colour space that is tied to the system of colour representation for a particular device. This type of colour space is not suitable for interchanges of colour data between different devices.
Industry:Software; Computer
Interprocess communication. A set of programming interfaces that enables a process to communicate data or information to another process. Mechanisms for IPC exist in the various layers of the system, from Mach messaging in the kernel to distributed notifications and Apple events in the application environments. Each IPC mechanism has its own advantages and limitations, so it is not unusual for a programme to use multiple IPC mechanisms. Other IPC mechanisms include pipes, named pipes, signals, message queueing, semaphores, shared memory, sockets, the Clipboard, and application services.
Industry:Software; Computer
The area in the Quartz Composer development tool used to assemble patches.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user-driven installation process. Users drag a product’s files to a location of their choosing in their file system. Compare window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A value used to adjust truncated factional values for cases in which fractional positioning can’t be used. Device delta values are usually used when anti-aliasing is turned off. However, these values can be used when anti-aliasing is on, to assure that the glyphs in a connected script (such as one that uses the Zapfino font) are connected smoothly.
Industry:Software; Computer
A component of an operating system that deals with getting data to and from a device, as well as the control of that device. A driver written with the I/O Kit is an object that implements the appropriate I/O Kit abstractions for controlling hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
In BSD, a device file is a special file located in/devthat represents a block or character device such as a terminal, disc drive, or printer. If a programme knows the name of a device file, it can use POSIX functions to access and control the associated device. The programme can obtain the device name (which is not persistent across reboots or device removal) from the I/O Kit.
Industry:Software; Computer
