- 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 central component of the Mac OS X kernel that provides such basic services and abstractions as threads, tasks, ports, interprocess communication (IPC), scheduling, physical and virtual address space management, virtual memory, and timers.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Interface Builder, an object in a nib file that is created for your application at load time. Interface objects can consist of both visual objects (such as windows, views, and menus) and nonvisual objects (such as controllers).
Industry:Software; Computer
In BSD, a special group, membership in which confers on users the ability to become the root user by using the su utility on the command line. Users who are not in the wheel group can’t become the root user, even if they have the correct password. In Mac OS X, the admin group is used for this purpose rather than the wheel group.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process that handles periodic service requests or forwards a request to another process for handling. Daemons run continuously, usually in the background, waking only to handle their designated requests. For example, the httpd daemon responds to HTTP requests for web information.
Industry:Software; Computer
The core of Mac OS X, Darwin is an open source project that includes the Darwin kernel, the BSD commands and C libraries, and several additional features. The Darwin kernel is synonymous with the Mac OS X kernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
In a menu, indicates that an attribute applies to only part of the selection. For example, if a highlighted selection contains text with different styles applied to it, a dash appears next to each style name in the menu.
Industry:Software; Computer
In image processing, arrays of dissimilar data that are grouped together, such as vertex data and texture coordinates. Interleaving can speed up data retrieval.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user technology for managing HTML-based programs called widgets. Activating the Dashboard via the F12 key displays a layer above the Mac OS X desktop that contains the user’s current set of widgets.
Industry:Software; Computer
Mach object file format. The preferred object file format for Mac OS X. See also PEF.
Industry:Software; Computer
A graphical application used to build and debug Dashboard widgets.
Industry:Software; Computer
