Glossary
- About Box
A window designed to display the application name, copyright holder, software version number, and a link to the creator's Web site. On OS X, the About Box is accessed from the Application Menu.
- Address Book
An OS X application designed to track contact information for friends, family, and business associates. Applications that need access to contact information or need to retain contact information on OS X should always interface with this application.
- admin (administrator)
A user who is all-powerful on a particular computer. The administrator has all permissions to do anything on the computer.
- Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe Systems is known for their graphics and Web design software. Adobe owns Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver. Find Adobe at
www.adobe.com.- alpha channel
Indicates the transparency of a given image.
- alpha release
A software release for testing purposes. Alpha releases typically do not have a stable feature set, meaning features may be added or removed before the software application reaches beta.
- Ant
Target-based build tool. Ant builds consist of one or more files organized into a project containing targets and targets containing individual tasks.
- Apache
The Apache Software Foundation responsible for organizing many popular open-source, business-friendly projects. Apache also refers to their most popular project, an HTTP server.
- API (Application Programming Interface)
A collection of libraries for use in software development.
- app
Short for software ...
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