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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.
The product or product components contained in an installation package. See also installation package.
Industry:Software; Computer
Pulse code modulation. A lossless encoding technique widely used for working with audio, invented by Alec H. Reeves in 1937. Sometimes called LPCM for linear pulse-code modulation, which distinguishes the process from ADPCM. In pulse-code modulation, an analogue signal is linearly encoded to a series of binary numbers by sampling an analogue signal at regular intervals. See also encoding, linear, quantization.
Industry:Software; Computer
Portable document format. A file format created by Adobe Systems to represent documents in a manner independent of the software, hardware, and operating system. The format became an open standard in 2008.
Industry:Software; Computer
To examine an event in an event queue (obtaining its class, kind, parameters and so on) without removing it from the queue. Compare pull.
Industry:Software; Computer
Preferred Executable Format. The format of executable files used for applications and shared libraries in Mac OS 9; supported in Mac OS X. The preferred format for Mac OS X is Mach-O.
Industry:Software; Computer
Lossy compression that takes advantage of limitations in human perception. In perceptual coding, audio data is selectively removed based on how unlikely it is that a listener will notice the removal. MP3 and MPEG-2 AAC are popular examples of perceptual coding. See also lossy compression.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Ink Services technology, a mouse event that contains tablet data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A flag that you can use to customise the build process of source files of a particular type.
Industry:Software; Computer
In BSD, a set of attributes governing who can read, write, and execute resources in the file system. The output of the ls -l command represents permissions as a nine-position code segmented into three binary three-character subcodes; the first subcode gives the permissions for the owner of the file, the second for the group that the file belongs to, and the last for everyone else. The left-most position is reserved for a special character that says if this is a regular file (-), a directory (d), a symbolic link (l), or a special pseudo file device. The execute bit has a different semantic for directories, meaning they are searchable. See also ACL, authorization, UID.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of properties specifying the kinds of devices a driver can support. This information is stored in an XML matching dictionary defined in the information property list (Info.plist) file in the driver’s KEXT bundle. A single driver may present one or more personalities for matching; each personality specifies a class to instantiate. Such instances are passed a reference to the personality dictionary at initialization.
Industry:Software; Computer
