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This Blossary defines terms that are used in the OS X Reference Library.Some of these terms are specific to OS X or other Apple products and technologies, while others are commonly used in computer-related endeavors.

Category: Technology

Company: Apple Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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Apple Graphics Library framework. The Apple framework for using OpenGL graphics in Mac apps written in the Carbon environment.

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Audio Interchange File Format Extension for Compression. An extension of AIFF that supports storage of either compressed or uncompressed audio data. May also be abbreviated as AIFF-C. With the ...

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Apple Information Access Toolkit. In Classic Mac OS, an object-oriented information access engine that contained a collection of tools for indexing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of ...

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Audio Interchange File Format. A digital audio file format developed by Apple, Inc., based on the Interchange File Format (IFF) developed by Electronic Arts, Inc. The audio data in an AIFF file is ...

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A dialog that appears when the system or an application needs to communicate information to the user. Alerts provide messages about error conditions and warn users about potentially hazardous ...

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A sequence of actions to accomplish some task. In cryptography, refers to a sequence of actions, usually mathematical calculations, performed on data to encrypt or decrypt it.

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A lightweight reference to files and folders in Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file systems. An alias allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple ...

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