- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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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 timer mechanism that fires once, or at periodic intervals, calling a callback procedure when doing so.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atom of type 'free', which you can include in a QuickTime file as a placeholder for unused space.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X API that facilitates fine-grain control of privileged operations, such as accessing restricted areas of the operating system and self-restricted parts of your Mac OS X application. The Security Server uses policy-based decisions to authorize rights for users.
Industry:Software; Computer
A data field in an access control list (ACL) that specifies an operation that can be done with that keychain item, such as decrypting or authenticating.
Industry:Software; Computer
The combination of event class and event kind that uniquely identifies an event to the Carbon Event Manager. See also event class, event kind.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atom of type 'prfl', which summarizes the features of a movie or track.
Industry:Software; Computer
An interruption to the normal flow of program control that occurs when an error or other special condition is detected during execution. An exception transfers control from the code generating the exception to another piece of code, generally a routine called an exception handler.
Industry:Software; Computer
An alignment tool that shows the spacing required to meet the appropriate interface guidelines for the target platform. This type of guide appears and disappears automatically.
Industry:Software; Computer
A combination of code and resources that can be run to perform some task. Programs need not have a graphical user interface, although graphical applications are also considered programs.
Industry:Software; Computer
The mode in which tabbing and other keystrokes move keyboard focus to more interface elements than is possible in default keyboard access mode.
Industry:Software; Computer
