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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.
In AppleScript, a phrase that specifies the information needed to find another object in terms of the objects in which it is contained. Cocoa scripting makes use of object specifiers to find objects in your application while executing a script command and to return information requested by a script. See also absolute object specifier, object containment hierarchy, relative object specifier, reference form.
Industry:Software; Computer
A track in a QuickTime VR movie that contains a set of views of a VR object.
Industry:Software; Computer
A method of digitally encoding sound that represents the range of amplitude values as an unsigned number, with the midpoint of the range representing silence. For example, an 8-bit sound sample stored in offset-binary format would contain sample values ranging from 0 to 255, with a value of 128 specifying silence (no amplitude). Samples in Macintosh sound resources are stored in offset-binary form. Compare twos-complement encoding.
Industry:Software; Computer
Code that defines an object-based interface for a set of procedural interfaces. Some Cocoa objects wrap Carbon interfaces to provide parallel functionality between Cocoa and Carbon applications.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free collection of digital codecs for multimedia, including Ogg Vorbis for lossy compression of audio at medium-to-high bit rates, and Ogg FLAC for lossless audio.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free, open source, lossless audio codec. Ogg FLAC typically compresses CD audio by 50% with no data loss. FLAC is an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec. See also lossless compression.
Industry:Software; Computer
A free, open source, lossy audio codec intended to compete with MP3.
Industry:Software; Computer
Open Host Controller Interface. The register-level standards that are used by most USB and FireWire controller chips.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Carbon event timer that fires only once. See also event timer.
Industry:Software; Computer
A form of shared secret authentication in which both parties have an identical list of pairs of numbers, words, or symbols and each pair is used only once.
Industry:Software; Computer
