- 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 Xcode, search option that looks for the documents whose content matches a search term. The search term can be a word or phrase or may be an elaborate expression using Boolean operators and wildcard characters
Industry:Software; Computer
A feature for which you can choose only one of the available feature selectors, such as whether numbers are to be proportional or fixed-width. Compare nonexclusive feature type.
Industry:Software; Computer
A feature that lets users produce numerous instances of the same character by holding down its key rather than pressing the key over and over. Users can make adjustments to this feature in Keyboard & Mouse preferences.
Industry:Software; Computer
I/O in which the CPU accomplishes data transfer with explicit load and store instructions to device registers, rather than DMA, and without the use of interrupts. This data transfer is often done in a byte-by-byte, or word-by-word fashion. Also known as direct I/O or polled I/O. See also DMA.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A word that is an explicit part of a programming language; also called a reserved word. (2) In a PostScript printer description file, a string used to describe a printer—for example, *PageSize and *Font . (3) A four-character code used by the Apple Event Manager to identify a specific descriptor within an Apple event.
Industry:Software; Computer
A service is an I/O Kit entity, based on a subclass of IOService, that has been published with the registerService method and provides certain capabilities to other I/O Kit objects. In the I/O Kit’s layered architecture, each layer is a client of the layer below it and a provider of services to the layer above it. A service type is identified by a matching dictionary that describes properties of the service. A nub or driver can provide services to other I/O Kit objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
One of the keys with the letter F and a number, plus the Help, Home, Page Up, Page Down, Del, and End keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that uses a project’s product and can be launched in order to debug that product.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Interface Builder, a mechanism that automatically adjusts the size and position of views during resize operations based on a set of options. See also spring, strut.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically a web server and responds to requests from clients. Servlets extend a web server by generating content dynamically.
Industry:Software; Computer
