- 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.
Installer package data that provides Installer details about the package itself, such as its identifier, version number, and resource fork processing.
Industry:Software; Computer
A test that determines whether a package can be installed on the computer. A package requirement can be optional; such requirements display a warning to the user but allows the installation to proceed. Non-optional requirements prevent an installation from taking place.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In networking, an individual piece of information sent on a network. (2) In Core Audio, an encoding-defined unit of audio data comprising one or more frames. For PCM audio, each packet corresponds to one frame. For compressed audio, each packet corresponds to an encoding-defined number of uncompressed frames. For example, one packet of MPEG-2 AAC data decompresses to 1,024 frames of PCM data. Compare webpage template, uniquing.
Industry:Software; Computer
A positive integer that identifies an iteration of a single-component product package, or an iteration of a component package within a product package. This version number should be incremented when the contents or installation details of the package are changed. See also product package, component package.
Industry:Software; Computer
In a variable-packet-size audio file or stream, metadata that specifies where a packet of audio data starts as well as its size. In Core Audio, a data structure used to represent a packet description in an audio data buffer. See also simple message, packet table.
Industry:Software; Computer
In a variable-packet-size audio file or stream, metadata consisting of a table of packet descriptions. See also simple message, packet description.
Industry:Software; Computer
Converting pixel colour components from a buffer into the format needed by an application.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) (n.) The smallest unit (in bytes) of information that the virtual memory system can transfer between physical memory and backing store. (2) (v.) To transfer pages between physical memory and backing store. (3) (n.) In Quartz, the virtual canvas that Quartz paints to.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pane in the Page Setup dialogue that allows the user to set page format options—paper size, paper orientation, and scaling.
Industry:Software; Computer
An opaque data type used by the printing system to store information from the Page Setup dialog, such as paper size and orientation.
Industry:Software; Computer
