- 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.
A protected variable that restricts access to a shared resource. Semaphores are used to coordinate activities in which multiple processes compete for the same resources—for example, to share a common memory space or to share access to files. Mutexes and conditions are both types of semaphore. A semaphore is similar to a lock, except that a finite number of threads can be holding a semaphore at the same time. See also lock.
Industry:Software; Computer
The synthetic creation of ambience, or reverberation (echoes spaced so closely together that they are no longer discernible as individual events), most commonly by means of sending a signal through an electronic delay device. In most amps, a module containing metal springs provides the delay.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A search type that looks through the available reference for a symbol name.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file that contains Xcode build setting definitions. You can use it to share a set of build setting definitions among all the individuals working on a team. You can also use a configuration file to quickly configure targets and projects with common build setting definitions.
Industry:Software; Computer
The font used for informative text in alerts, headers in lists, help tags, and text in the small versions of many controls. It is 11-point Lucida Grande Regular.
Industry:Software; Computer
An XML-based format that describes a set of scriptability terms and the commands, classes, constants, and other information used to support an application’s scriptability. Also called sdef format. Compare script suite format.
Industry:Software; Computer
A short-lived collection of one or more indexes; the target of a search. An index group corresponds to one or more aspects of the corpus of documents you want to search. For example, one index in a group might contain document titles, while another contains the body text of those same documents. An index group can also comprise indexes of multiple corpora. See also corpus.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Interface Builder, the runtime object that manages the contents of a nib file. The File’s Owner is typically a controller object that maintains pointers to key objects in a nib file and responds to user interactions with those objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
