- 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.
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
The application selected by Launch Services in which to open a given document or URL, either through an explicit binding preference set by the user or, in the absence of such a user preference, by applying the implicit binding rules of Launch Services for determining the item’s default application.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dialog—usually displayed by an application in response to the user choosing the Print command—that solicits printing information from the user, such as the number of copies to print and the range of pages to print.
Industry:Software; Computer
A printing plug-in that renders the graphics content in a print job for output to a specific model or family of printers. Printer modules are created by printer vendors to support a particular printer or printer family.
Industry:Software; Computer
Information that controls the execution of a print job on a specific printer; print settings include such information as the number of copies, number of pages per sheet, and print quality settings.
Industry:Software; Computer
A cryptographic key that must be kept secret. Whereas a pair of identical private keys can be used as symmetric keys, asymmetric keys consist of one private key and one public key.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operation that requires special rights or permissions; for example, changing a locked system preference.
Industry:Software; Computer
In scheduling, a number that indicates how likely a thread is to run. The higher the thread’s priority, the more likely the thread is to run. See also scheduling policy.
Industry:Software; Computer
The runtime instance of an application or program. A process has its own virtual memory space and system resources (including port rights) that are independent of those assigned to other programs. A process always contains at least one thread (the main thread) and may contain any number of additional threads.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control that lets the user know that a task is in progress.
Industry:Software; Computer
