- 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.
Any of a family of lock types characterized by some combination of the behaviors of spinlocks and mutex (sleep) locks.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, an action to perform when a program reaches a certain point in its execution, such as logging output to the console. The default breakpoint action is to pause program execution.
Industry:Software; Computer
A protocol that defines the use of public key cryptography for initial authentication in Kerberos.
Industry:Software; Computer
The part of a file that historically held an application’s resources. Use of the resource fork is discouraged in Mac OS X, but you can store resources in the data fork.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a two-part compound statement that contains a series of AppleScript statements, followed by an error handler to be invoked if any of those statements cause an error.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, the Info window for inspecting and editing settings for file, framework, and folder references.
Industry:Software; Computer
In unidirectional text, the standard text-insertion caret. In mixed-directional text, one caret that appears at the place where the user will insert the next character, given the current keyboard script. At a boundary between two direction runs, the single caret can correspond to either the primary line direction or the secondary line direction. Because changing the keyboard script in that situation changes the caret location, the single caret is also called a moving caret or jumping caret.
Industry:Software; Computer
The difference between an original analog signal value and its quantized digital representation. Quantization can sometimes results in a signal-correlated noise called quantization noise. See also dither.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that can be controlled by a script. For AppleScript, that means being responsive to interapplication messages, called Apple events, sent when a script command targets the application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, options for specific architectures, such as PowerPC or Intel.
Industry:Software; Computer
