- المجال: 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.
A Mac OS X application that loads and uses audio units. See also audio unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
Text or other data that has been encrypted. Compare plaintext.
Industry:Software; Computer
Short for synchronization. (1) The process of ensuring that the clocks of two or more systems remain locked together, counting at the same rate. This term is commonly used in the context of locking an audio track to a video track. See also clock, clock drift, SMPTE timecode. (2) In a printing dialog extension, a procedure that maintains the correspondence between the current user interface settings and their recorded values in a job ticket. (3) In Sync Services, the process of establishing and maintaining data consistency between multiple clients.
Industry:Software; Computer
To declare to Launch Services that an application is capable of opening documents or URLs of a given type.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In object-oriented languages such as Objective-C and Java, a prototype for a particular kind of object. A class definition declares instance variables and defines methods for all members of the class. Objects that belong to the same class have the same types of instance variables and have access to the same methods (included the instance variables and methods inherited from superclasses). (2) In AppleScript, a category for objects that share characteristics such as properties and elements and respond to the same commands.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a user interface element that appears below the Documentation window toolbar during a search. It allows you to choose a type of search.
Industry:Software; Computer
The filename used for the video directory or folder on a standard-definition DVD disc volume. Files inside this directory contain pointers to the sectors on the disc that hold the program streams.
Industry:Software; Computer
A software module for multiple-byte script systems that converts phonetic or syllabic characters, entered from a keyboard, into ideographic or other complex representation of text. Because multiple-byte script systems have too many characters to be entered directly from a keyboard, the input method uses a conversion technique, such as translating sequences of phonetic characters that are typed into a special input window. For example, the Japanese script system provides software for transcribing Kana (phonetic Japanese) into ideographic Kanji.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the power plane, a driver for a device that relies on another object for its power. Compare power parent. See also plane.
Industry:Software; Computer
