- 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.
The button that confirms the message text in a dialog. The action button is in the lower-right corner of a dialog. It is often, but not always, the default button.
Industry:Software; Computer
In security, the list of groups to which the owner of a process belongs plus any additional groups added to the list programatically (for example, using the setgid command). If the file GID of a file system object matches the GID of any group in the group list, that group has group permissions for the object. See also file UID.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a value generated when a command is executed or an expression evaluated.
Industry:Software; Computer
Berkeley Software Distribution. Formerly known as the Berkeley version of UNIX, BSD is now simply called the BSD operating system. The BSD portion of Darwin is based on 4.4BSD Lite 2 and FreeBSD, a flavor of 4.4BSD.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a modifier track that performs a specific kind of tweening, such as path-to-matrix rotation.
Industry:Software; Computer
A format that encodes a color channel for images. Planar images tend to be faster to operate on than nonplanar images because operations do not need to be repeated for each color channel. A grayscale image is an example of a planar image because it encodes only one (black and white) channel.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atom of type 'skip', which you can include in a QuickTime file as a placeholder for unused space.
Industry:Software; Computer
A directory that the Finder presents to users as if it were a file. In other words, the Finder hides the contents of the directory from users. This opacity discourages users from inadvertently (or intentionally) altering the contents of the directory. See also bundle.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application distributed with Mac OS X that provides a basic environment for editing, compiling, and executing scripts.
Industry:Software; Computer
Said of communication on a socket or interface that contains actual data destined for the endpoint (for example, send and recv calls). Compare out-of-band.
Industry:Software; Computer
