- 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.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A standard for transmitting formatted text, hypertext, graphics, and audio in email messages over the Internet.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control state where the control appears normally (that is, not grayed out) and responds to user input when active.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a refactoring operation that creates accessors for the transformation item, reduces its visibility, and changes code that directly accesses the item to use the accessors instead.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, the algorithmic conversion of a signal from one representation to another. For example, compressing linear PCM data to AAC format is a form of encoding. Can be applied to perceptual or lossless data compression. See also codec (coder/decoder), decode. Compare data compression.
Industry:Software; Computer
To secure data so that it cannot be read by unauthorized entities, in such a way that its original state can be restored later (decrypted). In most cryptographic systems, encryption and decryption are performed by manipulating the data with a string of bytes called a key.
Industry:Software; Computer
The transformation of data into a form in which it cannot be made sense of without the use of some key. Such transformed data is referred to as ciphertext. Use of a key to reverse this process and return the data to its original (or plaintext) form is called decryption.
Industry:Software; Computer
