- 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 coded character set or character encoding scheme used to represent a particular piece of text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pair of shared library extensions—namely, the Text Encoding Converter and the Unicode Utilities—that facilitate text encoding conversion on Mac OS–based computers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A view that groups together two or more subviews, such as list or column views. A split view includes one or more splitter bars to adjust the relative sizes of the subviews.
Industry:Software; Computer
To send files to a device or program (called a spooler or daemon) that puts them in a queue for later processing. The print spooler controls output of jobs to a printer. Other devices, such as plotters and input devices, can also have spoolers.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, an operation that provides access to data from two tables at the same time, based on values contained in related columns.
Industry:Software; Computer
Direct memory access. A capability of some bus architectures that enables a bus controller to transfer data directly between a device (such as a disk drive) and a device with physically addressable memory, such as that on a computer’s motherboard. The microprocessor is freed from involvement with the data transfer, thus speeding up overall computer operation. See also bus master.
Industry:Software; Computer
Open Graphics Language. An industry-wide standard for developing portable 2D and 3D graphics applications. OpenGL consists of an API and libraries that developers use to render content in their applications.
Industry:Software; Computer
In iPhone OS, used to describe an audio session state in which playback or recording can proceed. Compare inactive.
Industry:Software; Computer
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 situations or actions.
Industry:Software; Computer
