- Branche: 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.
Common Gateway Interface. A standard for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as HTTP or web servers.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a possible option in a fetch specification that retrieves database rows without forming enterprise objects from those rows.
Industry:Software; Computer
A variation of an existing glyph (often ornamental) that is noncontextual. Compare smart swash.
Industry:Software; Computer
An HTTP adaptor that uses the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to translate requests from an web server into requests to an application instance, and responses from an application instance to responses to the web server. The web server creates a CGI process to handle each request.
Industry:Software; Computer
The distance from the top of a glyph to the bottom of the glyph, including the top-side bearing and bottom-side bearing.
Industry:Software; Computer
Core OpenGL framework. The Apple framework for using OpenGL graphics in Mac OS X applications (Cocoa or Carbon) that need low-level access to OpenGL.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Ink Services, Ink that remains visible to the user, but for which recognition has taken place.
Industry:Software; Computer
Variable bit rate. An encoding method available for some compression formats, such as AAC, that allows bit rate to vary according to the source material. The aim is to provide consistent perceived audio quality while minimizing file size. It does this by increasing the bit rate for difficult-to-encode portions and decreasing the bit rate for easy-to-encode portions. Compare average bit rate, constant bit rate.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Ink technology, the lines (alternating solid and broken) that appear when a user is writing directly into an application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a handler parameter that is identified by the order in which it is listed. In a handler call, positional parameters are enclosed in parentheses and separated by commas. They must be listed in the order in which they appear in the corresponding handler definition.
Industry:Software; Computer
