- 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.
An acoustic phenomenon produced by the cumulative addition of multiple sound reflections. Apple supplies the matrix reverb audio unit to simulate reverberation using DSP (digital signal processing).
Industry:Software; Computer
The smallest rectangle that encloses the full span of the glyphs from the ascent line to the descent line. See also image bounding rectangle.
Industry:Software; Computer
A relative measure of the fidelity of a track in a QuickTime movie. You can control the playback quality of a movie during movie playback. QuickTime chooses tracks from alternate tracks that most closely correspond to the display quality desired. See also alternate track.
Industry:Software; Computer
A plastic card similar in size to a credit card that has memory and a microprocessor embedded in it. A smart card can store and process information, including passwords, certificates, and keys. A smart card normally requires a personal identification number (PIN) or biometric measurement (such as a fingerprint) before releasing information and can carry out its own authentication evaluation. Smart cards can exchange information with a personal computer through a smart card reader.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user-defined object, combining data (in the form of properties) and handlers, that can be used in a script.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a reference form that specifies an object by describing its position with respect to the beginning or end of a container.
Industry:Software; Computer
A generic term applied to, among other things, lossy and lossless audio compression technologies implemented in hardware or software. Encoded data can be wrapped in a file format appropriate for the data, or decoded from such a file format. For example, the MP3 file format is a wrapper that can hold perceptually encoded audio data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A secret that is encrypted and protected by the keychain, plus its associated attributes and access object. Each keychain item has a class that determines what attributes it has; for example Internet password items include an IP address attribute. The password or other secret stored as a keychain item is encrypted and is inaccessible when the keychain is locked. When the keychain is unlocked, the secret can be read by the trusted applications listed in the item’s access object and by the user (with the Keychain Access utility). The attributes are not currently encrypted.
Industry:Software; Computer
A part of the kernel environment that manages the reading and writing of data on mounted storage devices of a certain volume format. A file system can also refer to the logical organization of files used for storing and retrieving them. File systems specify conventions for naming files, storing data in files, and specifying locations of files. See also volume format.
Industry:Software; Computer
A queue is a JMS construct that allows for point-to-point messaging between applications. A message sent to a queue can be received by only one application. When several applications are subscribed to the queue, the messages are load balanced between the subscribers.
Industry:Software; Computer
