- 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.
Electronic circuitry contained in random-access memory (RAM) chips, used to temporarily hold information at execution time. Addresses in a process’s virtual memory are mapped to addresses in physical memory. See also virtual memory
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
The simplest elements in OpenGL—points, lines, polygons, bitmaps, and images.
Industry:Software; Computer
The drawing commands that describe a document and the settings that control printing the document and keep track of it once the job has been added to a printer’s queue.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A driver object that provides services of some kind to its client. In a driver stack, the provider in a provider/client relationship is closer to the Platform Expert. See also client. (2) In Quartz Composer, a patch that supplies data from an outside source to a composition. (3) In web services, an application that executes the logic that implements a web service operation.
Industry:Software; Computer
An identifier for the entity responsible for the contents of an installation package; for example,com.apple . PackageMaker uses this identifier to generate default package identifiers for a product package’s components. See also package identifier.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, the rules governing the consistency of relationships.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a link between two entities that’s based on attributes of the entities. For example, the Department and Employee entities can have a relationship based on the deptID attribute as a foreign key in Employee, and as the primary key in Department. This relationship would make it possible to find the employees for a given department.
Industry:Software; Computer
A cryptographic key that cannot be made public without compromising the security of the cryptographic method. In symmetric key cryptography, the secret key is used both to encrypt and decrypt the data. In asymmetric key cryptography, the secret key is paired with a public key. Whichever one is used to encrypt the data, the other is used to decrypt it. See also public key, public key cryptography.
Industry:Software; Computer
The font used for text in menus and in modeless dialogs, and for titles of document windows. It is 13-point Lucida Grande Regular.
Industry:Software; Computer
