- 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.
An asynchronous event that suspends the currently scheduled process and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an interrupt handler routine. Interrupts can be caused by both hardware (I/O, timer, machine check) and software (supervisor, system call, or trap instruction).
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A way of extending a class in an object-oriented framework. In object-oriented design methodology, delegation is a form of class composition. (2) In AppleScript, the use of a continue statement to call a handler in a parent object or the current application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Interface Builder, the content area of a window object. It’s the area in which you drop views and other visual objects and is also where you manipulate those objects directly.
Industry:Software; Computer
An attack on a communication channel in which the attacker can intercept messages going between two parties without the communicating parties’ knowledge. Typically, the man in the middle substitutes messages and even cryptographic keys to impersonate one party to the other.
Industry:Software; Computer
A component of an operating system that deals with getting data to and from a device, as well as the control of that device. A driver written with the I/O Kit is an object that implements the appropriate I/O Kit abstractions for controlling hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the parameter immediately following a command, which typically specifies the object to which the command is sent.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user interface element that displays a list of possible selections to the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
