- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
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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 way to ensure the integrity of a message or other data using public key cryptography. To create a digital signature, the signer generates a message digest of the data and then uses a private key to encrypt the digest. The signature includes the encrypted digest and identifies the signer. Anyone wanting to verify the signature uses the signer’s digital certificate, which contains the public key needed to decrypt the digest and specifies the algorithm used to create the digest.
Industry:Software; Computer
Information retrieval. The process of locating information based on a well-defined information need. An information retrieval system consists of a corpus, one or more indexes of its content, a query interface, a search system, and a results interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dictionary of key-value pairs that describe the properties of a device or other service. The values in a matching dictionary are compared against those in a driver personality during device matching.
Industry:Software; Computer
Web Services Description Language. XML-based language used to describe web services. Web service consumers can dynamically parse a WSDL document to determine the operations a web service provides and how to execute them.
Industry:Software; Computer
An effect that takes each bright pixel in the source image and expands it into the shape of the kernel, flipped horizontally and vertically. The contribution of the source pixel to the kernel-shaped region depends on two things: the brightness of the source pixel (brighter pixels contribute more) and the values of the kernel pixels (pixels that are dark, relative to the center of the kernel, contribute more to their locations in the kernel-shaped region than pixels that are bright).
Industry:Software; Computer
Used to describe text or icons that are grayed out to indicate that they are currently unavailable. Menu items, for example, are dimmed rather than omitted when they aren’t applicable at a particular moment.
Industry:Software; Computer
A complex vowel sound that can be phonetically represented by 2 characters. The characters represent the initial and final sounds of the diphthong.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the parameter immediately following a command, which typically specifies the object to which the command is sent.
Industry:Software; Computer
Web Services Security Core Specification. A specification that defines a set of SOAP extensions that can be used to provide message-level data integrity and confidentiality.
Industry:Software; Computer
