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Apple Inc.
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.
The full horizontal width of a glyph as measured from its origin to the origin of the next glyph on the line, including the side bearings on both sides.
Industry:Software; Computer
Advanced Encryption Standard encryption. A Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), described in FIPS publication 197. AES has been adopted by the US government for the protection of sensitive, nonclassified information. The algorithm was developed by Dr. Joan Daemen and Dr. Vincent Rijmen and was named the Rijndael algorithm. It is a symmetric-key algorithm that can use key sizes of 128, 192, or 256 bits. Apple has adopted the 128-bit version of AES for FileVault. There are approximately 3.4 x 10**38 possible 128-bit keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
A digital audio transport standard defined by the Audio Engineering Society, originally published in 1992. Also called the AES/EBU interface. Equivalent to IEC 60958 Part 4. The AES-3 standard includes parts for various physical connections including balanced twisted-pair wire, unbalanced coaxial cable, and optical fiber. The technical inspiration for AES-3 was the S/PDIF standard.
Industry:Software; Computer
An alternate name for AES-3. See also EBU.
Industry:Software; Computer
Audio Engineering Society. An international society of audio professionals that has established many important standards related to digital audio.
Industry:Software; Computer
Apple Filing Protocol. A file-sharing protocol, used by AppleShare servers and clients.
Industry:Software; Computer
To bring a running application to the front of the screen, allowing the user to interact with it. Compare launch.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of two or more audio devices interconnected to allow the set to be addressed by software applications as a single device. See also device.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a combination of targets, not necessarily dependent on each other, that does not produce a product or contain build rules or information property list entries. An aggregate target exists so that you can make it dependent on other targets. The build system builds the targets that the aggregate target depends on sequentially or in parallel.
Industry:Software; Computer
Apple Graphics Library framework. The Apple framework for using OpenGL graphics in Mac OS X applications written in the Carbon environment.
Industry:Software; Computer