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Apple Inc.
Industry: Computer; Software
Number of terms: 54848
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Company Profile:
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.
A feature of a security system whereby users provide authentication credentials (such as user ID and password) only once, after which they can access additional services without reauthenticating. See also authentication, ticket.
Industry:Software; Computer
A string of characters at the end of a filename, preceded by a period ( . ), that characterizes the nature of the file or the structure of its contents.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object that encapsulates all the information needed to perform an AppleScript command. Cocoa scripting creates script command objects in response to Apple events received by the application. A script command object is instantiated from NSScriptCommand or from one of its subclasses—either those provided by Cocoa scripting to handle standard AppleScript commands, or those defined by your application to perform its unique operations.
Industry:Software; Computer
The fixed amount of time a thread or process can run before being preempted.
Industry:Software; Computer
A window that is in the background of other windows. Although some of its controls can be activated (click-through) and it can be a drag-and-drop target, an inactive window is not the focus of the user’s attention.
Industry:Software; Computer
An imaginary horizontal line that corresponds approximately to the tops of the uppercase letters in the font. Uppercase letters are chosen because, among the regularly used glyphs in a font, these are generally the tallest.
Industry:Software; Computer
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Container-managered persistence. An enterprise bean persistence model in which the J2EE container is responsible for persisting enterprise-bean instances to a data store and populating the fields of enterprise-bean instances when they are retrieved.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, tasks with no inputs and outputs, or tasks whose inputs are not the outputs of other tasks and whose outputs are not the inputs of other tasks. Compare ordered tasks.
Industry:Software; Computer
The state where an application or thread is waiting for some event or action to occur. While blocked, that particular code path uses no processor time.
Industry:Software; Computer
An Xcode pane for editing and compiling AppleScript script files (files with the extension .applescript ). The editor relies on the osacompile shell tool to compile scripts.
Industry:Software; Computer
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