- 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.
A password for an Internet server, such as a web or FTP server. Internet password items on the keychain include attributes such as the security domain and IP address.
Industry:Software; Computer
A way of viewing and modifying the contents of variables using a progressive disclosure mechanism.
Industry:Software; Computer
The layering of windows within a specific window class. Compare window layering.
Industry:Software; Computer
In digital audio, an opaque data structure for transporting audio format metadata. For audio formats that use them, such as AAC, a magic cookie is produced during encoding, accompanies the data stream that it describes, and is employed during decoding. Magic cookie data is not accessed directly, but rather via a codec-specific interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
A small control strip that appears above the content pane and contains controls for several debugging tasks.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dimensionless unit for expressing the ratio of two quantities, abbreviated as dB. The decibel difference between two power levels is equal to 10 times the common logarithm of their ratio. The decibel difference between two voltage levels is equal to 20 times the common logarithm of their ratio. Decibel values are typically associated with a standard voltage or power level. For example, acoustic levels are commonly referenced to 0 dB SPL, equivalent to 20 µPa (micropascals). See also SPL.
Industry:Software; Computer
The calculation of intermediate values relative to known beginning and ending values.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the first occurrence of a variable or property identifier in a script. The form and location of the declaration determine how AppleScript treats the identifier in that script—for example, as a property, global variable, or local variable.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, to retrieve the original signal from an encoded representation of it. For lossy encoding schemes such as MP3, the retrieved signal approximates the original signal. See also codec (coder/decoder), encoding.
Industry:Software; Computer
