- 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.
In DVD playback, a forward or backward direction with respect to the video stream.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In AppleScript, the evaluation of an expression that contains an operator. (2) In WebObjects, a specific process or task that a web service implements. Much like Java methods, a web service operation can define an arbitrary number of parameters and return values. Operations are invoked by web service consumers and executed by web service providers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A cubic equation originally developed by Pierre Bézier. In typography, used to define the shape of a glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
The Mac OS X API for creating and sending Apple events, and for receiving, extracting information from, and responding to them.
Industry:Software; Computer
An offscreen drawing destination (CGLayerRef) designed for optimal performance. Introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, a layer context is a much better choice for offscreen drawing than a bitmap graphics context.
Industry:Software; Computer
A list in a pane of an application window used to organize and navigate data. The width of the pane is adjustable. The Finder sidebar is an example of a source list.
Industry:Software; Computer
The distinct visual representation of a character in a form that a screen or printer can display. A glyph may represent one character (the lowercase a), more than one character (the fi ligature), part of a character (the dot over an i), or a nonprinting character (the space character). Compare character.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio data format conversion, frames of audio data that follow, in time, the nominal ending frame for an input stream. See also priming. Compare leading frames.
Industry:Software; Computer
A constant used in DVD Playback Services to specify the speed of play. A scan rate of 1x represents the normal playback speed; other scan rates are multiples of the normal speed.
Industry:Software; Computer
