- Industry: 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 format used to store pixel data in memory. The format describes the pixel components (that is, red, blue, green, alpha), the number and order of components, and other relevant information, such as whether a pixel contains stencil and depth values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of operating on bits. Quartz does not provide functions that operate on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Core Image provides support for image processing on a per-pixel basis.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X Installer file. .pkg files can be combined into a metapackage (.mpkg).
Industry:Software; Computer
The act of interrupting a currently running program in order to give time to another task.
Industry:Software; Computer
A type of multitasking in which the operating system can interrupt a currently running program in order to run another program, as needed. Compare cooperative multitasking.
Industry:Software; Computer
The application selected by Launch Services in which to open a given document or URL, either through an explicit binding preference set by the user or, in the absence of such a user preference, by applying the implicit binding rules of Launch Services for determining the item’s default application.
Industry:Software; Computer
A feature in Enterprise Object that allows you to suppress fault creation for an entity’s relationships. Instead of creating faults, the relationship data is fetched when the entity is first fetched. See also faulting.
Industry:Software; Computer
