- Industrie: 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.
(1) A word that is an explicit part of a programming language; also called a reserved word. (2) In a PostScript printer description file, a string used to describe a printer—for example, *PageSize and *Font . (3) A four-character code used by the Apple Event Manager to identify a specific descriptor within an Apple event.
Industry:Software; Computer
A service is an I/O Kit entity, based on a subclass of IOService, that has been published with the registerService method and provides certain capabilities to other I/O Kit objects. In the I/O Kit’s layered architecture, each layer is a client of the layer below it and a provider of services to the layer above it. A service type is identified by a matching dictionary that describes properties of the service. A nub or driver can provide services to other I/O Kit objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that uses a project’s product and can be launched in order to debug that product.
Industry:Software; Computer
In surround sound and immersive audio, the real or apparent horizontal angle of an audio source referenced to a line drawn from the listener’s head to a point directly ahead of the listener.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In DVD-Video, a division of a title. Technically called a part of title (PTT). (2) A method of organizing different scenes of a movie for easy navigation and access. DVDs are indexed by chapter, similar to the way a CD has a track. DVD players allow you to skip to a particular chapter or scene.
Industry:Software; Computer
The part of a glyph bitmap that surrounds the pixels that constitute the glyph itself.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atomic unit of content for text data. A character is an abstract entity without any particular appearance; characters include letters, digits, punctuation, and symbols. Compare character code, glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
