- 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 component of a URL that identifies the type of resource it represents or the protocol to be used for accessing it, such as http, ftp, mailto, or file. See also document URL object.
Industry:Software; Computer
The successful access to information and information technologies by people with disabilities. Mac OS X provides support for users with disabilities in the form of VoiceOver (Apple’s full-featured screen reading technology), speech recognition and text-to-speech features, and mouse and keyboard alternatives. Mac OS X includes the accessibility programming interface, which defines how an assistive technology, such as a refreshable braille display or head-tracking mouse, can communicate with and control an application.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) For audio units, to return an audio unit to its just-initialized state. (2) For codecs, to clear the codec’s input buffer and return the codec to its just-initialized state.
Industry:Software; Computer
The primary window of an application that is not document-based.
Industry:Software; Computer
I/O in which the CPU accomplishes data transfer with explicit load and store instructions to device registers, rather than DMA, and without the use of interrupts. This data transfer is often done in a byte-by-byte, or word-by-word fashion. Also known as direct I/O or polled I/O. See also DMA.
Industry:Software; Computer
A service is an I/O Kit entity, based on a subclass of IOService, that has been published with the registerService method and provides certain capabilities to other I/O Kit objects. In the I/O Kit’s layered architecture, each layer is a client of the layer below it and a provider of services to the layer above it. A service type is identified by a matching dictionary that describes properties of the service. A nub or driver can provide services to other I/O Kit objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that uses a project’s product and can be launched in order to debug that product.
Industry:Software; Computer
Anything used by executable code, especially by applications. Resources include images, sounds, icons, localized strings, archived user interface objects, and various other things. Mac OS X supports both Resource Manager–style resources and “per-file” resources. Localized and nonlocalized resources are put in specific places within bundles.
Industry:Software; Computer
Logiciel ou un matériel d'enregistrement, lecture et modification des données MIDI ou échantillons audio (extraits ou en boucle). Voir aussi SGML, MIDI.
Industry:Software; Computer
