D
- Darwin
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The open-source component of Mac OS X.
- database
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A software program for storing, retrieving, and manipulating multiple pieces of information.
- default
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A setting that is chosen if a user does not specify another. For example, the default home page for some Web browsers is the developing company's site.
- defragment
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To reorganize a file so that it occupies contiguous clusters on a disk.
- Desktop
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The main area of the Mac OS; the part that contains icons for drives, files, folders, and in Mac OS 9 and earlier, the Trash.
- dialog box
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An alert that asks for user input.
- disc and disk
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When you're talking about CD or DVD or other optical media, it is a disc. When referring to magnetic media such as those used in hard drives or Zip drives, it's a disk. ...
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