- 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 dialog that appears when the system or an application needs to communicate information to the user. Alerts provide messages about error conditions and warn users about potentially hazardous situations or actions.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process by which a process verifies that a person or entity is the same one it communicated with previously. Identification is in general faster than authentication and does not require interaction with the user. In Kerberos, for example, the authentication server authenticates a user and issues a credential (called a ticket-granting ticket), which can be used later for identification so that reauthentication is not necessary.
Industry:Software; Computer
In iPhone OS, used to describe an audio session state in which playback or recording cannot proceed. Compare active.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, describes a transfer function whose output signal is directly proportional to the input.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the part of a script statement that identifies an object. Constructions such as first rectangle and document "My Notes" are references. Cocoa scripting provides built-in support for standard AppleScript reference forms.
Industry:Software; Computer
The direction in which reading proceeds. Roman text has a left-to-right direction; Hebrew and Arabic have a (predominantly) right-to-left direction; Chinese and Japanese can have a vertical direction.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a view that displays a file for editing. The editor can be a pane in a window or a standalone window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A library for which all referenced symbols are bound at link time.
Industry:Software; Computer
A menu that descends from another menu. The title of the submenu is a menu item in the parent menu. See also hierarchical menu.
Industry:Software; Computer
