- 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 format used to store pixel data in memory. The format describes the pixel components (that is, red, blue, green, alpha), the number and order of components, and other relevant information, such as whether a pixel contains stencil and depth values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of operating on bits. Quartz does not provide functions that operate on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Core Image provides support for image processing on a per-pixel basis.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X Installer file. .pkg files can be combined into a metapackage (.mpkg).
Industry:Software; Computer
Network address translation. A scheme that transforms network packets at a gateway so network addresses that are valid on one side of the gateway are translated into addresses that are valid on the other side.
Industry:Software; Computer
Network File System. The main file-sharing protocol used by UNIX systems. An NFS file server allows users on the network to share files on other hosts as if they were on their own local disks.
Industry:Software; Computer
A predefined set of parameter values for an audio unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A short, potentially dynamic, visual representation of the contents of a file. Previews in file dialog boxes give the user a visual cue about a file’s contents. See also file preview.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atom of type 'pnot', which can appear in a QuickTime file to contain a movie’s file preview.
Industry:Software; Computer
The dominant line direction (right-to-left or left-to-right) of the current text. The primary line direction is typically specified by the value of the global system direction variable. See also line direction.
Industry:Software; Computer
