- 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.
Programmed input/output. A way to move data between a device and system memory in which each byte is transferred under control of the host processor. See also DMA.
Industry:Software; Computer
In general, a buffer that holds image information in main memory. In OpenGL, a type of drawable object that allows the use of offscreen buffers as sources for texturing. Pixel buffers allow hardware-accelerated rendering to a texture.
Industry:Software; Computer
The maximum amount by which the actual frequency of speech may deviate from the speech pitch.
Industry:Software; Computer
A format used to store pixel data in memory. The format describes the pixel components (that is, red, blue, green, alpha), the number and order of components, and other relevant information, such as whether a pixel contains stencil and depth values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of operating on bits. Quartz does not provide functions that operate on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Core Image provides support for image processing on a per-pixel basis.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X Installer file. .pkg files can be combined into a metapackage (.mpkg).
Industry:Software; Computer
The act of interrupting a currently running programme in order to give time to another task.
Industry:Software; Computer
A type of multitasking in which the operating system can interrupt a currently running programme in order to run another program, as needed. Compare cooperative multitasking.
Industry:Software; Computer
The application selected by Launch Services in which to open a given document or URL, either through an explicit binding preference set by the user or, in the absence of such a user preference, by applying the implicit binding rules of Launch Services for determining the item’s default application.
Industry:Software; Computer
