- 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 common image processing technique that changes the intensities of a pixel to reflect the intensities of the surrounding pixels. Using convolution, you can get image effects like blur, emboss, and sharpen.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, a low-amplitude noise applied to a signal to reduce quantization error. See also quantization noise.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) The length of time, in seconds, it takes for an animation to complete. (2) In QuickTime, time values that are interpreted as spans of time, rather than as points in time.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process by which glyphs are rearranged, substituted, deleted, and inserted based upon their properties and contextual states.
Industry:Software; Computer
A menu that provides commands for changing (editing) the contents of documents. It contains commands such as Cut, Copy, and Paste.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) An arbitrary value (usually a string) used to locate a piece of data in a data structure such as a dictionary. (2) In security, a piece of secret information required to decode an encrypted message. In modern cryptographic methods, it is usually a lengthy integer.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the part of a script statement that identifies an object. Constructions such as first rectangle and document "My Notes" are references. Cocoa scripting provides built-in support for standard AppleScript reference forms.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a message conforming to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) sent from the web server to the user’s web browser that contains the resource specified by the corresponding request. The response is typically a webpage. See also request.
Industry:Software; Computer
