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This Blossary defines terms that are used in the OS X Reference Library.Some of these terms are specific to OS X or other Apple products and technologies, while others are commonly used in computer-related endeavors.

Category: Technology

Company: Apple Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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Apple Graphics Library framework. The Apple framework for using OpenGL graphics in Mac apps written in the Carbon environment.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

Audio Interchange File Format Extension for Compression. An extension of AIFF that supports storage of either compressed or uncompressed audio data. May also be abbreviated as AIFF-C. With the ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

Apple Information Access Toolkit. In Classic Mac OS, an object-oriented information access engine that contained a collection of tools for indexing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

Audio Interchange File Format. A digital audio file format developed by Apple, Inc., based on the Interchange File Format (IFF) developed by Electronic Arts, Inc. The audio data in an AIFF file is ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A dialog that appears when the system or an application needs to communicate information to the user. Alerts provide messages about error conditions and warn users about potentially hazardous ...

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A sequence of actions to accomplish some task. In cryptography, refers to a sequence of actions, usually mathematical calculations, performed on data to encrypt or decrypt it.

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A lightweight reference to files and folders in Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file systems. An alias allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple ...

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