- Branche: 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.
A layer of the kernel network architecture containing the core functionality for a protocol family such as TCP/IP.
Industry:Software; Computer
A data structure containing function pointers and data associated with a protocol family.
Industry:Software; Computer
A special type of attribute available in EOModeler to provide a template for creating attributes.
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
A file that allows applications in development to be installed on an iPhone OS–based device. It contains one or more development certificates, an application ID, and one or more device IDs
Industry:Software; Computer
In Interface Builder, a placeholder for an object that is specified at runtime. Proxy objects act as stand-ins for objects that are not available at design time. Instead, such objects are created by a running application and connected to the objects in a nib file when that nib file is loaded. Cocoa nib files use proxy objects to represent the owner of a nib file’s contents, the application object itself, and the first object to respond to events.
Industry:Software; Computer
An icon in the title bar of a document window that users can manipulate as if they were manipulating the corresponding file-system object. Users can Command-click the proxy icon to display a pop-up menu illustrating the document path.
Industry:Software; Computer
A number generated by an algorithm that produces a series of numbers with no discernible pattern. It should be impossible or nearly impossible to deduce the algorithm from such a series. However, unlike a truly random number generator, a pseudorandom number generator always produces the same series if the algorithm is given the same starting value or values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The study of the perception of sound. The development of perceptual coding techniques relies on psychoacoustics.
Industry:Software; Computer
