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What is Container Product Definition A file that contains a packaged or unpackaged product. The two container types are disk image and ZIP archive compare
What is Preauthorization Explain performing the actual authorization. Preauthorization is used to determine if a user has the possibility of authorizing later why
What is Premultiplied What is In image processing, said of a pixel that already has its intensity levels appropriately multiplied by the alpha value how better
What is Termination Phrase Meaning Defines when Ink input should be processed by the recognizer when
What is Editor Package Product Abbreviation that specifies packaging and installation information about a product. This pane is displayed when the product package is selected in the determines
What is Profile Provisioning How to development to be installed on an iOS-based device. It contains one or more development certificates, an application ID, and one or more comparing to
What is Object Proxy Help an object that is specified at runtime. Proxy objects act as stand-ins for objects that are not available at design time. Instead, such depends on
What is In Plug Printing Crossword A stand-alone code module—packaged as a Core Foundation plug-in—that adds functionality to the OS X printing system which
What is Pattern Examples A sequence of drawing operations that Quartz can repeatedly paint to a graphics context difference
What is Pdf Encyclopedia created by Adobe Systems to represent documents in a manner independent of the software, hardware, and operating system. The format became when
What is Rate Preferred Information about The default playback rate for a QuickTime movie pros and cons
What is Filter Socket Programmatic Tutorial A socket filter that is enabled only under program control by calling setsockopt on a specific socket similarities
What is Probe Error candidate driver communicates with a device and verifies whether it can drive it. The driver’s probe member function is invoked to kick off how much
What is Provider Answer services of some kind to its client. In a driver stack, the provider in a provider/client relationship is closer to the Platform Expert how many
What is Parameter Positional Means what that is identified by the order in which it is listed. In a handler call, positional parameters are enclosed in parentheses and separated compare
What is Directory Product Description The file-system directory that contains a project file, the project’s source code and resources, and the build directory why
What is Pio Definition data between a device and system memory in which each byte is transferred under control of the host processor. See also DMA how better
What is Browser Printer Explain A module used to discover specific types of printers, such as USB or LPR printers when
What is Process What is or program. A process has its own virtual memory space and system resources (including port rights) that are independent of those assigned determines
What is Event Pen Meaning In the Ink Services technology, a mouse event that contains tablet data comparing to
What is Poster Abbreviation A frame shot from a movie, used to represent its content to the user depends on
What is Identifier Process How to See simple statement which
What is Set Port Help ports. A thread can receive messages sent to any of the ports contained in a port set by specifying the port set as a parameter to msg difference
What is Number Pseudorandom Crossword produces a series of numbers with no discernible pattern. It should be impossible or nearly impossible to deduce the algorithm from such a when
What is Pane Features Printer Examples contains any user interface feature specified in a PostScript printer description (PPD) file that isn’t already a feature in Apple-provided pros and cons
What is Job Print Encyclopedia document and the settings that control printing the document and keep track of it once the job has been added to a printer’s queue similarities
What is Track Panorama Information about A track in a QuickTime VR movie that contains a panorama how much
What is Personality Tutorial kinds of devices a driver can support. This information is stored in an XML matching dictionary defined in the information property list how many
What is Cryptography Key Public Error keys in which one key is made public while the other (the private key) is kept secure. Data encrypted with one key must be decrypted with compare
What is Properties Package Answer Installer details about the package itself, such as its identifier, version number, and resource fork processing why
What is Object Settings Print Means what printing system to store information from the Print dialog, such as number of copies, number of pages per sheet, and print quality how better
What is Searching Phrase Description terms, with the query string considered as a complete phrase. A match occurs when the exact query phrase appears in a document. Search Kit when
What is Packing Definition Converting pixel color components from a buffer into the format needed by an application determines
What is Phoneme Explain A distinct unit that serves to distinguish between meanings of words comparing to
What is Form Reference Property What is In AppleScript, a reference form that specifies a property of an application , record , or script object depends on
What is Module Printer Meaning graphics content in a print job for output to a specific model or family of printers. Printer modules are created by printer vendors to which
What is File Ppd Abbreviation text file, created by a printer vendor, that contains keywords and other information to specify features, options, and settings for a difference
What is Rectangle Paper How to of a piece of paper on which a page is printed. This rectangle is defined in the same coordinate system as the page rectangle . Thus, the when
What is Parameter Help defines an adjustable attribute such as volume, pitch, or filter cutoff frequency. Each audio unit parameter has a name, a unit (such as pros and cons
What is per-file compiler flags Crossword A flag that you can use to customize the build process of source files of a particular type similarities
What is Pbuffer Examples See simple search how much
What is Prosody Encyclopedia The rhythm, intonation, and lexical stress in speech how many
What is Button Push Information about on it, which the user clicks to perform an instantaneous action, such as saving a document, completing operations defined by a dialog, or compare
What is Dialog Printing Tutorial A window provided by the printing system to elicit a response from the user. See also Page Setup dialog , Print dialog why
What is Description Packet Error stream, metadata that specifies where a packet of audio data starts as well as its size. In Core Audio, a data structure used to represent how better
What is Matrix Projection Answer A matrix that OpenGL uses to transform points, lines, polygons, and positions from eye coordinates to clip coordinates when
What is Parser Means what program that works with a tokenizer to interpret a sequence of tokens. In Audio File Stream Services, a software object of type determines
What is Panning Description of a monaural signal within a stereo or multichannel (such as surround sound ) sound field. Variations include stereo, SoundField comparing to
What is Portal Program Definition A restricted-access area of the iOS Dev Center that allows you to configure devices to test your iOS applications depends on
What is Pane Attributes Page Explain A pane in the Page Setup dialog that allows the user to set page format options—paper size, paper orientation, and scaling which
What is Pal What is encoding system used widely in Europe, in which one of the subcarrier phases derived from the color burst is inverted in phase from one difference
What is Object Parent Meaning another script object, called the child, inherits properties and handlers. A parent object may be any object, such as a list or an when
What is Number Version Package Abbreviation iteration of a single-component product package, or an iteration of a component package within a product package. This version number pros and cons
What is Line Alternation Phase How to See unidirectional text similarities
What is Reference Product Help reference that refers to the build system output for a particular target. A product reference lets you view your target’s products in the how much
What is Pane Crossword dialog or other window. Panes usually change as the result of the user clicking a button or choosing an item from a pop-up menu. In some how many
What is Postscript Examples appearance (text and graphics) of a printed page. PostScript is an industry standard for printing and imaging. Many printers contain or can compare
What is Atom Parent Encyclopedia A QT atom that contains other QT atoms, which are its child atoms. See also child atom why
What is O I Programmed Information about transfer with explicit load and store instructions to device registers, rather than DMA, and without the use of interrupts. This data how better
What is Memory Physical Tutorial random-access memory (RAM) chips, used to temporarily hold information at execution time. Addresses in a process’s virtual memory are when
What is Uid Process Error three user IDs: the real user ID (RUID), effective user ID (EUID), and saved user ID (SUID). The RUID is always inherited from the user or determines
What is Format Image Planar Answer for images. Planar images tend to be faster to operate on than nonplanar images because operations do not need to be repeated for each comparing to
What is List Property Means what data, commonly stored in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. Elements of a property list represent data of certain types, such as depends on
What is Manipulation Pixel Description Quartz does not provide functions that operate on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Core Image provides support for image processing on a per-pixel which
What is Hierarchy Patch Definition In Quartz Composer, the levels in a composition created when macro patches are used. See also macro patch difference
What is Component Product Explain product can have one or more components. The OS X file system contains special locations for several types of components. For example when
What is Infrastructure Key Public What is See PKI pros and cons
What is Painting Meaning For the Quartz equivalent of the QuickDraw painting operation (such as that used for the QuickDraw function PaintOval), see filling similarities
What is Format Pixel Abbreviation memory. The format describes the pixel components (that is, red, blue, green, alpha), the number and order of components, and other how much
What is Key Public How to A cryptographic key that can be shared or made public without compromising the cryptographic method. See also public key cryptography how many
What is Pitch Help attribute that is roughly correlated with frequency. In general, pitch increases as the perceptually-dominant sound frequency increases compare
What is Palette Crossword document windows and that provides items to be used when other windows are open, such as a palette that provides drawing tools why
What is Window Palette Examples provides a number of palettes (or panes), each of which contains object instances you can add to an application how better
What is Dialog Print Encyclopedia application in response to the user choosing the Print command—that solicits printing information from the user, such as the number of when
What is Manager Printing Information about routines that can be used by a Classic application to print from the Macintosh computer to any type of connected printer. This has been determines
What is Pull Tutorial audio data, typically from a buffer . Data typically moves through an audio processing graph by way of a cascade of pull requests initiated comparing to
What is Plumber Protocol Error A network kernel extension that routes data between an interface and a network protocol stack depends on
What is Driver Passive Answer basic power-management tasks, such as joining the power plane and changing the device’s power state. See also active driver which
What is Package Means what the user so that it appears to be a single file, and whose contents are ordinarily inaccessible for browsing by the user. Compare folder difference
What is Root Project Description control operations are rooted and that serves as the origin of a project hierarchy. By default, a project root is the project directory when
What is File Project Definition A file created by Xcode that organizes source code, resources, and settings used to build a product pros and cons
What is Pcm Explain encoding technique widely used for working with audio, invented by Alec H. Reeves in 1937. Sometimes called LPCM for linear pulse-code similarities
What is Icon Proxy What is window that users can manipulate as if they were manipulating the corresponding file-system object. Users can Command-click the proxy icon how much
What is Pki Meaning by the X.509 standard, the set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, store, distribute, and how many
What is Page Abbreviation of information that the virtual memory system can transfer between physical memory and backing store. (2) (v.) To transfer pages between compare
What is Priming How to frames to a set of audio data to support format conversion or SRC (sample rate conversion). If a converter requires priming and no leading why
What is Queue Printer Help A temporary holding area for print jobs waiting to be printed how better
What is Scrap Mlte Private Crossword Scrap used exclusively by MLTE when
What is Permissions Examples who can read, write, and execute resources in the file system. The output of the ls -l command represents permissions as a nine-position determines
What is Znak Control Prosodic Encyclopedia See phoneme modifier comparing to
What is Presets Printing Information about settings for the Print dialog. Printing presets are provided by Apple or printer vendors to reduce the need for users to navigate to depends on
What is Preview Tutorial representation of the contents of a file. Previews in file dialog boxes give the user a visual cue about a file’s contents. See also file which
What is Extension Dialog Printing Error A printing plug-in that implements one or more panes in a printing dialog difference
What is Psychoacoustics Answer The study of the perception of sound. The development of perceptual coding techniques relies on psychoacoustics when
What is Dialog Setup Page Means what application in response to the user choosing the Page Setup command—that allows the user to specify the printing options (such as the paper pros and cons
What is Pixel Description that the graphics hardware can display on the screen. In OpenGL, pixel is made up of all the bits at the location x, y, in all the similarities
What is Settings Print Definition of a print job on a specific printer; print settings include such information as the number of copies, number of pages per sheet, and how much
What is Store Pet Explain A sample J2EE application from Sun Microsystems, which showcases the power and flexibility of the J2EE platform how many
What is Panel Taker Picture What is IKPictureTaker ) that allows users to choose images by browsing the file system or by taking a snapshot with an iSight or other digital compare
What is Pmap Meaning abstract way to set and fetch virtual-to-physical mappings from hardware. The pmap system is the machine-dependent layer of the VM system why
What is Direction Line Primary Abbreviation left or left-to-right) of the current text. The primary line direction is typically specified by the value of the global system direction how better
What is Pointer How to value actually serves as a reference to a value stored in a specific location. (2) In a human interface, a cursor when
What is Pool Help See buffer pool determines
What is Pen Crossword See stylus comparing to
What is Comment Picture Examples processing by output devices, such as printer drivers. Picture comments are usually stored in the definition of a picture or are included depends on
What is Property Encyclopedia store a value. Properties can specify characteristics of objects. (2) In KVC, any of the three kinds of object values that KVC can access which
What is Structure Protosw Information about A data structure containing function pointers and data associated with a protocol family difference
What is Rectangle Page Tutorial the printable area on a page. The upper-left corner of the page rectangle always has the coordinates (0,0). The coordinates of the lower when
What is Identifier Package Error Identifies the package within the Installer package database. See also Installer package database pros and cons
What is Key Primary Answer in an entity that uniquely identifies rows of that entity. For example, the Employee entity can contain an empID attribute that uniquely similarities
What is Certificate Key Public Means what See digital certificate how much
What is Function Polynomial Description commonly used for transforming pixel intensities in an image that is a summation of n factors and coefficients in the form of ax n + bx n how many
What is Table Packet Definition stream, metadata consisting of a table of packet descriptions. See also simple message , packet description compare
What is Separator Pathname Explain The “/” character that separates folder names in a raw pathname. A raw pathname should be displayed only to expert users or in a help tag why
What is Pkinit What is A protocol that defines the use of public key cryptography for initial authentication in Kerberos how better
What is Prebinding Meaning program is built, by which the static linker replaces references to external symbols with the addresses of the symbols in the referenced when
What is Object Session Printing Abbreviation printing system to store information that’s needed by the page format and print settings objects, such as default page format and print determines
What is Formatting Page How to A description of how the pages of a document should be printed; page formatting includes such information as page and paper sizes comparing to
What is Priority Help how likely a thread is to run. The higher the thread’s priority, the more likely the thread is to run. See also scheduling policy depends on
What is Menu Up Pop Crossword current choice and can be opened to present a list of mutually exclusive choices in a dialog or window. Pop-up menus have a double triangle which
What is Stack Protocol Examples A layer of the kernel network architecture containing the core functionality for a protocol family such as TCP/IP difference
What is Pacing Encyclopedia The distribution of the interpolated values of an animation across the duration of the animation when
What is Product Information about An application or framework produced by Xcode pros and cons
What is Parent Power Tutorial In the power plane, an object that provides power for a device. Compare power child . See also plane similarities
What is Depth Pixel Error The number of bits per pixel in a pixel image how much
What is Pasteboard Answer data within applications or between applications. The most familiar use for pasteboards is handling copy and paste operations. The how many
What is Searching Prefix Means what A prefix search involves matching a term in a query string to indexed terms, with an explicit wildcard character at the end of the query compare
What is Indicator Progress Description A control that lets the user know that a task is in progress why
What is Player Definition See music player how better
What is Quality Playback Explain track in a QuickTime movie. You can control the playback quality of a movie during movie playback. QuickTime chooses tracks from alternate when
What is Plist What is See property list determines
What is Modulation Pitch Meaning The maximum amount by which the actual frequency of speech may deviate from the speech pitch comparing to
What is Loop Print Abbreviation The sequence of function calls that set up and execute the printing of a document in an application depends on
What is Pthreads How to The POSIX threads implementation. See also WebObjects Builder , thread which
What is Program Help that can be run to perform some task. Programs need not have a graphical user interface, although graphical applications are also difference
What is Unit Panner Crossword 039;aupn' that distributes a set of input channels, using a spatialization algorithm, to a set of output channels. In the simplest when
What is Address Physical Examples such as a memory chip, can directly respond. Programs, including the Mach kernel, use virtual addresses that are translated to physical pros and cons
What is Prefetching Encyclopedia allows you to suppress fault creation for an entity’s relationships. Instead of creating faults, the relationship data is fetched when the similarities
What is Name Port Information about In Mach, an integer index into a port namespace; a port right is specified with respect to its port name. See also port right how much
What is Name Right Port Tutorial port right . Each process has a port right namespace, which maps port right names to their corresponding port rights. A port right name is how many
What is File Pkg Error An OS X Installer file. .pkg files can be combined into a metapackage (.mpkg compare
What is Preemption Answer The act of interrupting a currently running program in order to give time to another task why
What is Requirement Package Means what package can be installed on the computer. A package requirement can be optional; such requirements display a warning to the user but allows how better
What is Expert Platform Description motherboard that knows the type of platform the system is running on. The Platform Expert serves as the root of the I/O Registry tree when
What is Gid Process Definition three group IDs: the real group ID (RGID), effective group ID (EGID), and saved group ID (SGID). The RGID is always inherited from the user determines
What is Panic Explain An unrecoverable system failure explicitly triggered by the kernel with a call to panic. Compare kernel crash comparing to
What is Configuration Project What is In Xcode, the set of development features, project attributes, and project and target build settings used in a project depends on
What is Patch Meaning unit in a composition, which executes and produces a result. Patches are similar to routines in traditional programming languages. See which
What is Object Format Page Abbreviation An opaque data type used by the printing system to store information from the Page Setup dialog, such as paper size and orientation difference
What is Path How to Quartz paints as a unit. A path can consist of straight lines, curves, or both. It can be open or closed. (2) For documentation sets, the when
What is Pager Help A module responsible for providing the data for the pages of a memory object. See also default pager , vnode pager pros and cons
What is Space Pattern Crossword to the default user space by the transformation matrix (the pattern matrix) you specify when you create the pattern. Pattern space is similarities
What is Child Power Examples In the power plane, a driver for a device that relies on another object for its power. Compare power parent . See also plane how much
What is In Plug Encyclopedia separate from a host (such as an application, operating system, or other plug-in) that, by conforming to an interface defined by the host how many
What is Packagemaker Information about A tool that builds an installable software package from the files you provide compare
What is Key Private Tutorial secret. Whereas a pair of identical private keys can be used as symmetric keys , asymmetric keys consist of one private key and one public why
What is Variable Parameter Error handler definition that represents the actual value of a parameter when the handler is called. Also called a formal parameter how better
What is Attribute Prototype Answer A special type of attribute available in EOModeler to provide a template for creating attributes when
What is Center Print Means what An application that allows users to locate and select printers, and control and obtain status for print jobs determines
What is Operation Privileged Description An operation that requires special rights or permissions; for example, changing a locked system preference comparing to
What is Application Preferred Definition Services in which to open a given document or URL, either through an explicit binding preference set by the user or, in the absence of such depends on
What is Packet Explain of information sent on a network. (2) In Core Audio, an encoding-defined unit of audio data comprising one or more frames. For PCM audio which
What is Queue Audio Playback What is See audio queue difference
What is Right Port Meaning In Mach , a specification of which task can send to or receive from a particular port when
What is Panel Abbreviation windows and provides tools or controls that users can work with while documents are open. Panel is not a user term; the equivalent term is pros and cons
What is Preset How to A predefined set of parameter values for an audio unit similarities
What is Schemat S Painter Help In Quartz, a drawing model in which each successive drawing operation applies a layer of paint to a page how much
What is Source Dispatch Process Crossword process-related events. A process source calls your custom event handler in response to changes to the process you specify how many
What is Memory Protected Examples See memory protection compare
What is Peek Encyclopedia To examine an event in an event queue (obtaining its class, kind, parameters and so on) without removing it from the queue. Compare pull why
What is Pef Information about of executable files used for applications and shared libraries in Mac OS 9; supported in OS X. The preferred format for OS X is Mach-O how better
What is Polyphonic Tutorial Describes an instrument capable of playing more than one note simultaneously. Compare monophonic . See also monotimbral , multitimbral when
What is Mode Rendering Profile Error displays an analysis of each rendered frame in a composition; the analysis can help you to optimize performance determines
What is Action Postcompensation Answer such as addition of kashidas and ligature decomposition, that occurs after glyphs have been repositioned during justification comparing to
What is Atom Preview Means what An atom of type 'pnot', which can appear in a QuickTime file to contain a movie’s file preview depends on
What is Volume Preferred Description The default sound volume for a QuickTime movie which
What is Coding Perceptual Definition of limitations in human perception. In perceptual coding, audio data is selectively removed based on how unlikely it is that a listener difference
What is Handler Protocol Explain from input packets (giving the data to interested programs) and inserts data into output packets (giving the output packet to the when
What is Pane Feed Paper What is A pane in the Print dialog that lets the user specify the printer trays from which a print job should be printed pros and cons
What is Processor Meaning In Quartz Composer, a patch that processes data at specified intervals or in response to changing input values similarities
What is Size Point Abbreviation from the baseline of one line of text to the baseline of the next line of single-spaced text. In the United States, point size is measured how much
What is Plaintext How to Ordinary, unencrypted data. Compare ciphertext how many
What is Mode Through Pass Help respect to keyboard-entry, pass-through mode allows users to enter ASCII characters in the context of a 2-byte script, without changing the compare
What is parent document URL object Crossword the location of the enclosing folder for a document or for another parent document URL object. Search Kit manages documents using parent why
What is Posix Examples Portable Operating System Interface. An operating-system interface standardization effort supported by ISO/IEC, IEEE, and The Open Group how better
What is Placard Encyclopedia Typically placards are used in document windows as a way to quickly modify the view of the contents—for example, to change the current page when
What is Buffer Pixel Information about information in main memory. In OpenGL, a type of drawable object that allows the use of offscreen buffers as sources for texturing. Pixel determines
What is Multitasking Preemptive Tutorial operating system can interrupt a currently running program in order to run another program, as needed. Compare cooperative multitasking comparing to
What is Frame Priming Error A webpage template of audio data used for priming depends on
What is View Pages Answer In Xcode, one of the three views provided by the all-in-one layout which
What is Window Info Project Means what and editing information kept at the project level, such as general information, project build settings, project build configurations, and difference
What is Alpha Premultiplied Description already multiplied by an alpha value. Premultiplying speeds up the rendering of an image by eliminating an extra multiplication operation when
What is Modulation Code Pulse Definition See PCM pros and cons
What is List Package Explain that lists the packages the project defines. This list is divided in two parts: the installation-package file (which contains all the similarities
What is Atom Profile What is An atom of type 'prfl', which summarizes the features of a movie or track how much
What is Port Meaning channel for communication between tasks running on a single system. (2) In IP transport protocols, an integer identifier used to select a how many
What is Payload Abbreviation The product or product components contained in an installation package. See also installation package compare
What is Mechanizm Based Policy How to A system that requires authorization to perform a privileged operations why
What is Panorama Help A structure of QuickTime VR data that forms a virtual-world environment within which the user can navigate how better
What is State Play Crossword One of four states that a DVD can be in during playback: playing at a normal rate, paused, scanning forward, or scanning backward when
What is Primitives Examples The simplest elements in OpenGL—points, lines, polygons, bitmaps, and images determines
What is Package Product Encyclopedia all the components of a product. Product packages with multicomponent products contain or reference component packages. See also comparing to
What is Identifier Provider Information about responsible for the contents of an installation package; for example,com.apple . PackageMaker uses this identifier to generate default depends on
What is Pid Tutorial Process identifier. A number that uniquely identifies a process. Also called a process ID which
What is Database Policy Error A database containing the set of rules the Security Server uses to determine authorization difference
What is Modifier Phoneme Answer A symbol defined to adjust the pronunciation of an individual phoneme. Phoneme modifiers are also called prosodic control symbols when
What is Window Project Means what A window that displays and organizes the files that make up an Xcode project pros and cons
What is Searching String Partial Description to indexed terms, with implied wildcard characters at the start and end of each query term. Each term is matched separately. Search Kit similarities
What is Plane Definition in the I/O Registry that have a certain type of provider/client relationship connecting them. The most general plane is the Service plane how much
What is Password Explain Data, usually a character string, used to authenticate a user for a service or application how many

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