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List of built-in macOS apps

Index List of built-in macOS apps

This is a list of built-in apps and system components developed by Apple Inc. for macOS that come bundled by default or are installed through a system update. [1]

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  1. 391 relations: A la carte pay television, A/UX, Abstraction layer, Address book, Adobe Photoshop, AirPods, AirPort, AirTag, Analysis, AOL, AOL Mail, Aperture (software), API, Apple community, Apple Developer, Apple Developer Tools, Apple Disk Image, Apple event, Apple Inc., Apple Maps, Apple menu, Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Open Directory, Apple Podcasts, Apple TV app, Apple TV+, AppleScript, Application software, Aqua (user interface), Architecture of macOS, Article (publishing), Audio Units, Back to My Mac, Backup software, Bash (Unix shell), Batch processing, Benchmark (computing), Bill of materials, BlackBerry OS, Bluetooth, Bonjour (software), Boot Camp (software), Brainstorming, Cable Internet access, Calculator, Calendar, Calendar (Apple), Campbell, California, Captive portal, ... Expand index (341 more) »

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A la carte pay television

A la carte pay television (from the French à la carte, "from the menu"), also referred to as pick-and-pay, is a pricing model for pay television services in which customers subscribe to individual television channels.

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A/UX

A/UX is a Unix-based operating system from Apple Computer for Macintosh computers, integrated with System 7's graphical interface and application compatibility.

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Abstraction layer

In computing, an abstraction layer or abstraction level is a way of hiding the working details of a subsystem.

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Address book

An address book or a name and address book is a book, or a database used for storing entries, called contacts.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.

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AirPods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple.

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AirPort

AirPort is a discontinued line of wireless routers and network cards developed by Apple Inc. using Wi-Fi protocols.

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AirTag

AirTag is a tracking device developed by Apple.

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Analysis

Analysis (analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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AOL Mail

AOL Mail (stylized as Aol Mail.) is a free web-based email service provided by AOL, a division of Yahoo! Inc.

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Aperture (software)

Aperture is a discontinued professional image organizer and editor developed by Apple between 2005 and 2015 for the Mac, as a professional alternative to iPhoto.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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Apple community

The Apple community is the users, media, and third party companies interested in Apple Inc. and its products.

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Apple Developer

Apple Developer (formerly Apple Developer Connection) is Apple Inc.'s website for software development tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), and technical resources.

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Apple Developer Tools

The Apple Developer Tools are a suite of software tools from Apple to aid in making software dynamic titles for the macOS and iOS platforms.

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Apple Disk Image

Apple Disk Image is a disk image format commonly used by the macOS operating system. List of built-in macOS apps and Apple Disk Image are macOS.

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Apple event

Apple events are the message-based interprocess communication mechanism in Mac OS, first making an appearance in System 7 and supported by every version of the classic Mac OS since then and by macOS.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Apple Maps

Apple Maps is a web mapping service developed by Apple Inc. The default map system of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS, it provides directions and estimated times of arrival for driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation navigation.

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Apple menu

The Apple menu is a drop-down menu that is on the left side of the menu bar in the classic Mac OS, macOS and A/UX operating systems.

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Apple Music

Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists.

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Apple News

Apple News is a news aggregator app developed by Apple Inc., for its iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS operating systems.

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Apple Open Directory

Apple Open Directory is the LDAP directory service model implementation from Apple Inc. A directory service is software which stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources and which allows network administrators to manage users' access to the resources. List of built-in macOS apps and Apple Open Directory are macOS.

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Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts (known as simply Podcasts in Apple operating systems) is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts.

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Apple TV app

The Apple TV app (also known as Apple TV, TV, and the TV app) is a line of media player software programs developed by Apple Inc. for viewing television shows and films delivered by Apple to consumer electronic devices.

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Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is an American subscription OTT streaming service owned and operated by Apple Inc. Launched on November 1, 2019, it offers a selection of original production film and television series called Apple Originals.

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AppleScript

AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. that facilitates automated control over scriptable Mac applications.

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Application software

An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.

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Aqua (user interface)

Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Architecture of macOS

The architecture of macOS describes the layers of the operating system that is the culmination of Apple Inc.'s decade-long research and development process to replace the classic Mac OS. List of built-in macOS apps and architecture of macOS are macOS.

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Article (publishing)

An article or piece is a written work published in a print or electronic medium, for the propagation of news, research results, academic analysis or debate.

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Audio Units

Audio Units (AU) are a system-level plug-in architecture provided by Core Audio in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Back to My Mac

Back to My Mac was a feature introduced with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) that uses Wide-Area Bonjour to securely discover services across the Internet and automatically configure ad hoc, on-demand, point-to-point encrypted connections between computers using IPsec.

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Backup software

Backup software are computer programs used to perform a backup; they create supplementary exact copies of files, databases or entire computers.

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Bash (Unix shell)

Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.

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Batch processing

Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically.

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Benchmark (computing)

In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.

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Bill of materials

A bill of materials or product structure (sometimes bill of material, BOM or associated list) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product.

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BlackBerry OS

BlackBerry OS was a proprietary mobile operating system developed by Canadian company BlackBerry Limited for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).

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Bonjour (software)

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of zero-configuration networking (zeroconf), a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution. List of built-in macOS apps and Bonjour (software) are macOS.

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Boot Camp (software)

Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s macOS (previously) that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers.

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Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt.

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Cable Internet access

In telecommunications, cable Internet access, shortened to cable Internet, is a form of broadband internet access which uses the same infrastructure as cable television.

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Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Calendar

A calendar is a system of organizing days.

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Calendar (Apple)

Calendar is a personal calendar app made by Apple Inc. for its macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS operating systems.

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Campbell, California

Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Captive portal

A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources.

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Carbon (API)

Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system.

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Character encoding

Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess variant

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess.

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CIE 1931 color space

In 1931 the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) published the CIE 1931 color spaces which define the relationship between the visible spectrum and the visual sensation of specific colors by human color vision.

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CIELAB color space

The CIELAB color space, also referred to as L*a*b*, is a color space defined by the International Commission on Illumination (abbreviated CIE) in 1976.

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Classic Mac OS

Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.

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Closed captioning

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.

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Cocoa (API)

Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Comparison of desktop application launchers

An application launcher is a computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer programs.

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Comparison of note-taking software

The tables below compare features of notable note-taking software.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Computer hardware

Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.

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Computer network

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.

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Computer programming

Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks.

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Computer science

Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.

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Computing platform

A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed.

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Contacts (Apple)

Contacts is a computerized address book software included with the Apple operating systems iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS.

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Context menu

A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.

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Cooperative multitasking

Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a style of computer multitasking in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running process to another process.

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Core Animation

Core Animation is an animation graphics compositing framework used by macOS (Mac OS X Leopard and later), iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to produce animated user interfaces.

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Core Audio

Core Audio is a low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Core Data

Core Data is an object graph and persistence framework provided by Apple in the macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Core Image

Core Image is a pixel-accurate, near-realtime, non-destructive image processing technology in Mac OS X. Implemented as part of the QuartzCore framework of Mac OS X 10.4 and later, Core Image provides a plugin-based architecture for applying filters and effects within the Quartz graphics rendering layer.

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Core Video

Core Video is the video processing model employed by macOS.

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Crash reporter

A crash reporter is usually a system software whose function is to identify reporting crash details and to alert when there are crashes, in production or on development / testing environments.

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Crazyhouse

Crazyhouse is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own.

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Cursor (user interface)

In human–computer interaction, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input.

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Cut, copy, and paste

Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design.

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Daemon (computing)

In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.

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Darwin (operating system)

Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. List of built-in macOS apps and Darwin (operating system) are macOS.

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Data logger

A data logger (also datalogger or data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or about location either with a built-in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors.

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Database index

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure.

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Defaults (software)

defaults is a command line utility that manipulates plist files.

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Desk accessory

A desk accessory (DA) or desklet in computing is a small transient or auxiliary application that can be run concurrently in a desktop environment with any other application on the system.

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Desktop metaphor

In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer.

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Desktop notes

Desktop notes are computer applications that allow putting Post-it note-like windows on the screen, with reminders, short notes and other clippings.

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Device driver

In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.

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Dialog box

The dialog box (also called message box or simply dialog) is a graphical control element in the form of a small window that communicates information to the user and prompts them for a response.

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Digital calendar

A digital calendar is a collaborative or personal time management software with a calendar that can be used to keep track of planned events.

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Digital camera

A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.

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Digital image

A digital image is an image composed of picture elements, also known as pixels, each with finite, discrete quantities of numeric representation for its intensity or gray level that is an output from its two-dimensional functions fed as input by its spatial coordinates denoted with x, y on the x-axis and y-axis, respectively.

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Digital signature

A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.

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Digital subscriber line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

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Directory (computing)

In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.

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Directory service

In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses.

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Disk Copy

Disk Copy was the default utility for handling logical volume images in System 7 through Mac OS X 10.2 (usable in System Software 6 as well).

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Disk image

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device.

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Dock (macOS)

The Dock is a prominent feature of the graphical user interface of macOS.

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Documentation

Documentation is any communicable material that is used to describe, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an object, system or procedure, such as its parts, assembly, installation, maintenance, and use.

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Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3 (see below), is the name for a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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Double-click

A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button twice quickly without moving the mouse.

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Drag and drop

In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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DVD player

A DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards.

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DVD region code

DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997.

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DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro is a discontinued high-end software tool published by Apple Inc. to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Email client

An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

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Email filtering

Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria.

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Email hosting service

An email hosting service is an Internet hosting service that operates email servers.

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Email spam

Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming).

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

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FaceTime

FaceTime is a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple Inc. FaceTime is available on supported iOS mobile devices running iOS 4 and later and Mac computers that run and later.

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Fibre Channel Utility

Fibre Channel Utility is a Mac OS X Server utility for managing Fibre Channels connected to the server.

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FIDO Alliance

The FIDO ("Fast IDentity Online") Alliance is an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose stated mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that "help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords".

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File archiver

A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage.

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File attribute

File attributes are a type of meta-data that describe and may modify how files and/or directories in a filesystem behave.

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File manager

A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.

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File menu

The File menu is a graphical control element formerly common to most file-handling computer programs, but more recently often replaced by a toolbar or ribbon.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

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Filename extension

A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (for example,.txt,.docx,.md).

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Filter (social media)

Filters are digital image effects often used on social media.

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Find My

Find My is an asset tracking service made by Apple Inc. that enables users to track the location of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS devices, AirPods, AirTags, and a number of supported third-party accessories through a connected iCloud account.

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Finder (software)

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.

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Finger (protocol)

In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information.

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Firmware

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.

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Flyover (Apple Maps)

Flyover is a feature on Apple Maps that allows users to view certain areas in a 3D setting.

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Font management software

Font management software is a kind of utility software that computer users use to browse and preview fonts and typically to install and uninstall fonts.

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Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

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Formatted text

In computing, formatted text, styled text, or rich text, as opposed to plain text, is digital text which has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles (boldface, italic), sizes, and special features in HTML (such as hyperlinks).

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FourCC

A FourCC ("four-character code") is a sequence of four bytes (typically ASCII) used to uniquely identify data formats.

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GarageBand

GarageBand is a software application by Apple for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or podcasts.

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Gateway Setup Assistant

Gateway Setup Assistant is a tool in Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server versions 10.4 and higher that guides users through setting up Mac OS X Server as an internet gateway.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.

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Gmail

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google.

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Grapher

Grapher is a computer program bundled with macOS since version 10.4 that is able to create 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations.

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Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

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Graphing calculator

A graphing calculator (also graphics calculator or graphic display calculator) is a handheld computer that is capable of plotting graphs, solving simultaneous equations, and performing other tasks with variables.

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HD DVD

HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete.

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Home automation

Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

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IChat

iChat (previously iChat AV) is a discontinued instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. for use on its Mac OS X operating system. List of built-in macOS apps and iChat are macOS.

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ICloud

iCloud is a cloud service operated by Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My.

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IDVD

iDVD is a discontinued Mac application made by Apple, which can be used to create DVDs.

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Image editing

Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photo-chemical photographs, or illustrations.

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Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software for organising digital images.

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Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

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Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats.

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IMessage

iMessage is an instant messaging service developed by Apple Inc. and launched in 2011.

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IMovie

iMovie is a free video editing application made by Apple for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad.

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Installation (computer programs)

Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution.

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Instant messaging

Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.

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Interface Builder

Interface Builder is a software development application for Apple's macOS operating system.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Internet Explorer for Mac

Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer for Macintosh, Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition, Internet Explorer:mac or IE:mac) was a proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform to browse web pages.

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Internet radio

Internet radio, also known as Online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones. List of built-in macOS apps and IOS are macOS.

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IOS 8

iOS 8 is the eighth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 7.

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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IPad

The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.

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IPadOS

iPadOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for its iPad line of tablet computers.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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IPhoto

iPhoto is a discontinued digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. It was included with every Mac computer from 2002 to 2015, when it was replaced with Apple's Photos application.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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IWork

iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website.

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Kerberos (protocol)

Kerberos is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner.

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Kernel (operating system)

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system.

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Kernel panic

A kernel panic (sometimes abbreviated as KP) is a safety measure taken by an operating system's kernel upon detecting an internal fatal error in which either it is unable to safely recover or continuing to run the system would have a higher risk of major data loss.

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Keychain (software)

Keychain is the password management system in macOS, developed by Apple.

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KornShell

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983.

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Legacy system

In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system", yet still in use.

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List of built-in macOS apps

This is a list of built-in apps and system components developed by Apple Inc. for macOS that come bundled by default or are installed through a system update. List of built-in macOS apps and list of built-in macOS apps are apple Inc. lists and macOS.

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List of PDF software

This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.

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Loadable kernel module

In computing, a loadable kernel module (LKM) is an object file that contains code to extend the running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system.

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Logging (computing)

In computing, logging is the act of keeping a log of events that occur in a computer system, such as problems, errors or just information on current operations.

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Login

In computer security, logging in (or logging on, signing in, or signing on) is the process by which an individual gains access to a computer system or program by identifying and authenticating themselves.

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Look Around (Apple)

Look Around is a technology featured in Apple Maps that provides interactive panoramas from positions along a number of streets in various countries.

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Losing chess

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Mac 68k emulator

The Mac 68k emulator is a software emulator built into all versions of the classic Mac OS for PowerPC.

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MAC address

A MAC address (short for media access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.

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Mac App Store

The Mac App Store (also known as the App Store) is a digital distribution platform for macOS apps, often referred to as Mac apps, created and maintained by Apple Inc. The platform was announced on October 20, 2010, at Apple's "Back to the Mac" event. List of built-in macOS apps and mac App Store are macOS.

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Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997.

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Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9 is the ninth and final major release of Apple's classic Mac OS operating system, which was succeeded by Mac OS X 10.0 in 2001, starting the Mac OS X family of operating systems.

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Mac OS X 10.0

Mac OS X 10.0 (code named Cheetah) is the first major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.

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Mac OS X Jaguar

Mac OS X Jaguar (version 10.2) is the third major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.

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Mac OS X Leopard

Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) is the sixth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Mac OS X Panther

Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3) is the fourth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.

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Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X Server is a series of discontinued Unix-like server operating systems developed by Apple Inc. based on macOS. List of built-in macOS apps and mac OS X Server are macOS.

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) (also referred to as OS X Snow Leopard) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) is the 5th major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.

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Mac Pro

Mac Pro is a series of workstations and servers for professionals made by Apple Inc. since 2006.

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Mac transition to Apple silicon

The Mac transition to Apple silicon was the transitioning of Apple Inc.'s line of Mac computers from designs using Intel x86-64 CPUs to designs based on Apple-designed processors based on the ARM64 architecture.

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MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is a line of laptop computers developed and manufactured by Apple since 2008.

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MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro is a line of Mac laptop computers developed and manufactured by Apple.

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Machine code

In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing unit (CPU).

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Macintosh Quadra

The Macintosh Quadra is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1991 to October 1995.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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MacOS Big Sur

macOS Big Sur (version 11) is the seventeenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Catalina

macOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Mojave

macOS Mojave (version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Monterey

macOS Monterey (version 12) is the eighteenth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Sierra

macOS Sierra (version 10.12) is the thirteenth major release of macOS (formerly known as and), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Ventura

macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Macro (computer science)

In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction") is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input should be mapped to a replacement output.

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Media player software

Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files.

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A menu bar is a graphical control element which contains drop-down menus.

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Metadata

Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Mission Control (macOS)

Mission Control is a feature of the macOS operating system.

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MLS Season Pass

MLS Season Pass is a soccer streaming service operated by Apple Inc. which includes live matches from Major League Soccer.

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Mobile device

A mobile device or handheld computer is a computer small enough to hold and operate in hand.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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MobileMe

MobileMe (branded iTools between 2000 and 2002;.Mac until 2008) is a discontinued subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. All services were gradually transitioned to and eventually replaced by the free iCloud, and MobileMe ceased on June 30, 2012, with transfers to iCloud being available until July 31, 2012, or data being available for download until that date, when the site finally closed completely.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors.

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MP4 file format

MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

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Multiple buffering

In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a "reader" will see a complete (though perhaps old) version of the data instead of a partially updated version of the data being created by a "writer".

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Music (app)

Music (also known as Apple Music, the Apple Music app, and the Music app) is a media player application developed for the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, tvOS, Android, and Windows operating systems by Apple Inc. It can play music files stored locally on devices, as well as stream from the iTunes Store and Apple Music.

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MySQL Manager

MySQL Manager is an application that is included in the Mac OS X Server that starts and stops the MySQL Database service that is within the server.

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Netstat

In computing, netstat (network statistics) is a command-line network utility that displays network connections for Transmission Control Protocol (both incoming and outgoing), routing tables, and a number of network interface (network interface controller or software-defined network interface) and network protocol statistics.

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Network packet

In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network.

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New Oxford American Dictionary

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.

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New World ROM

New World ROM computers are Macintosh models that do not use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM on the logic board. List of built-in macOS apps and New World ROM are macOS.

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News aggregator

In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, content aggregator, feed reader, news reader, or simply an aggregator, is client software or a web application that aggregates digital content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.

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Notification Center

Notification Center is a feature in iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS that provides an overview of alerts from applications. List of built-in macOS apps and Notification Center are macOS.

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NuCalc

NuCalc, also known as Graphing Calculator, is a computer software tool made by Pacific Tech.

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Online help

Online help is topic-oriented, procedural or reference information delivered through computer software.

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Open Database Connectivity

In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS).

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Open-source video game

An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source.

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OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT.

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OpenType

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Optical disc image

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system.

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Option key

The Option key,, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards.

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OS X Lion

OS X Lion, also known as Mac OS X Lion, (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.

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OS X Mavericks

OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) is the 10th major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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OS X Mountain Lion

OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the ninth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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OS X Yosemite

OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) is the eleventh major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Outlook.com

Outlook.com, formerly Hotmail, is a free personal email service offered by Microsoft.

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Package (macOS)

In the Apple macOS operating system, a package is a file system directory that is normally displayed to the user by the Finder as if it were a single file. List of built-in macOS apps and package (macOS) are macOS.

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Package manager

A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner.

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Palm OS

Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.

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Photos (Apple)

Photos is a photo management and editing application developed by Apple.

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Picture-in-picture

Picture-in-picture (PiP) is a feature that can be found in television receivers, personal computers, and smartphones.

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Ping (networking utility)

ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

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Pipeline (software)

In software engineering, a pipeline consists of a chain of processing elements (processes, threads, coroutines, functions, etc.), arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a series of graphics editors developed by Pixelmator Team for macOS and iOS.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.

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Pocket PC

A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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Post-it note

A Post-it note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.

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Power Macintosh

The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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PowerPC 970

The PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, and PowerPC 970MP are 64-bit PowerPC CPUs from IBM introduced in 2002.

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Preemption (computing)

In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting an executing task, with the intention of resuming it at a later time.

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Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper.

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Process (computing)

In computing, a process is the instance of a computer program that is being executed by one or many threads.

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Programming tool

A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.

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Progress bar

A progress bar is a graphical control element used to visualize the progression of an extended computer operation, such as a download, file transfer, or installation.

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Proof of concept

Proof of concept (POC or PoC), also known as proof of principle, is a realization of a certain idea, method or principle in order to demonstrate its feasibility, or viability, or a demonstration in principle with the aim of verifying that some concept or theory has practical potential.

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Property list

In the macOS, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files are files that store serialized objects. List of built-in macOS apps and property list are macOS.

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Public key certificate

In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the validity of a public key.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys.

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Quartz (graphics layer)

In Apple's macOS operating system, Quartz is the Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor part of the Core Graphics framework. List of built-in macOS apps and Quartz (graphics layer) are macOS.

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Quartz Composer

Quartz Composer is a node graph system provided as part of the Xcode development environment in macOS for processing and rendering graphical data.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.

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QuickTime Broadcaster

QuickTime Broadcaster is an audio and video RTP/RTSP server by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. It is separate from Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server, as it is not a service daemon but a desktop application.

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QuickTime Streaming Server

QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is a server or service daemon that was built into Apple's Mac OS X Server until OS X Server 10.6.8.

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README

In software distribution and software development, a README file contains information about the other files in a directory or archive of computer software.

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Refreshable braille display

A refreshable braille display or braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device for displaying braille characters, usually by means of round-tipped pins raised through holes in a flat surface.

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Reverse Polish notation

Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as reverse Łukasiewicz notation, Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands, in contrast to prefix or Polish notation (PN), in which operators precede their operands.

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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Rhapsody (operating system)

Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. List of built-in macOS apps and Rhapsody (operating system) are macOS.

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Rich Text Format

) As an example, the following RTF code would be rendered as follows: This is some bold text.

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Rosetta (software)

Rosetta is a dynamic binary translator developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, an application compatibility layer between different instruction set architectures. List of built-in macOS apps and Rosetta (software) are macOS.

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Roxio Toast

Toast is an optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for macOS.

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Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple.

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Sandbox (computer security)

In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs, usually in an effort to mitigate system failures and/or software vulnerabilities from spreading.

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Scientific calculator

A scientific calculator is an electronic calculator, either desktop or handheld, designed to perform calculations using basic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and complex (trigonometric, hyperbolic, etc.) mathematical operations and functions.

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Screen reader

A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) that renders text and image content as speech or braille output.

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Screensaver

A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.

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Screenshot

A screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab) is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer display.

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Scripting language

In computing, a script is a relatively short and simple set of instructions that typically automate an otherwise manual process.

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A selection-based search system is a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse.

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Self mounting image

A self mounting image is a disk image format, commonly found on the classic Mac OS platform, that is encapsulated in an application that mounts it as a file system.

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SheepShaver

SheepShaver is an open-source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux.

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Shell (computing)

In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs.

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Sjeng (software)

Sjeng is a chess engine written by Gian-Carlo Pascutto based on Faile, written by Adrien Regimbald.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Software bloat

Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep.

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Software license

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Spaces (software)

Spaces was a virtual desktop feature of Mac OS X, introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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Sparse image

A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on macOS that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as stored in it. List of built-in macOS apps and sparse image are macOS.

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Spotlight (Apple)

Spotlight is a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Springer Nature

Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

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Stock exchange

A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments.

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Stopwatch

A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation.

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StuffIt Expander

StuffIt Expander is a proprietary, freeware, closed source, decompression software utility developed by Allume Systems (a subsidiary of Smith Micro Software formerly known as Aladdin Systems).

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SyncML

SyncML (Synchronization Markup Language) is the former name for a platform-independent information synchronization standard.

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System 7

System 7 (later named Mac OS 7) is the seventh major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer.

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System call

In computing, a system call (commonly abbreviated to syscall) is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the operating system on which it is executed.

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System folder

The System folder is the directory in the classic Mac OS that holds various files required for the system to operate, such as fonts, system extensions, control panels, and preferences.

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System monitor

A system monitor is a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system.

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System Settings

System Settings (known as System Preferences prior to macOS Ventura) is an application included with macOS. List of built-in macOS apps and System Settings are macOS.

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Target Disk Mode

Target Disk Mode (sometimes referred to as TDM or Target Mode) is a boot mode unique to Macintosh computers. List of built-in macOS apps and Target Disk Mode are macOS.

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Task manager

In operating systems, a task manager is a system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer.

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Tcsh

tcsh (“tee-see-shell”, “tee-shell”, or as “tee see ess aitch”, tcsh) is a Unix shell based on and backward compatible with the C shell (csh).

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Terminal (macOS)

Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system by Apple.

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Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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Thunderbolt (interface)

Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer.

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Timekeeper

A timekeeper is a person that measures the passage of time.

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Timestamp

A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of a second.

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Traceroute

In computing, traceroute and tracert are diagnostic command-line interface commands for displaying possible routes (paths) and transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

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TrueType

TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Unix shell

A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems.

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URL

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.

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User experience design

User experience design (UX design, UXD, UED, or XD), upon which is the centralized requirements for "User Experience Design Research" (also known as UX Design Research), defines the experience a user would go through when interacting with a company, its services, and its products.

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User operation prohibition

The user operation prohibition (abbreviated UOP) is a form of use restriction used on video DVD discs and Blu-ray discs.

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UTF-16

UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16).

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UTF-8

UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication.

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Utility software

Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Video game graphics

A variety of computer graphic techniques have been used to display video game content throughout the history of video games.

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Videotelephony

Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication.

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Virtual desktop

In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software.

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Virtual folder

In computing, a virtual folder generally denotes an organizing principle for files that is not dependent on location in a hierarchical directory tree.

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Virtual memory

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".

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Virtual private network

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).

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Visual impairment

Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.

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Visual programming language

In computing, a visual programming language (visual programming system, VPL, or, VPS), also known as diagrammatic programming, graphical programming or block coding, is a programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements rather than by specifying them.

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VOB

VOB (for video object) is the container format in DVD-Video media.

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WatchOS

watchOS is the operating system of the Apple Watch, developed by Apple Inc. It is based on iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone, and has many similar features.

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Web mapping

Web mapping or an online mapping is the process of using, creating, and distributing maps on the World Wide Web (the Web), usually through the use of Web geographic information systems (Web GIS).

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Web tracking

Web tracking is the practice by which operators of websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors' activities on the World Wide Web.

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WebDAV

WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which allows user agents to collaboratively author contents directly in an HTTP web server by providing facilities for concurrency control and namespace operations, thus allowing Web to be viewed as a writeable, collaborative medium and not just a read-only medium.

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WebKit

WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS.

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Weblogs, Inc.

Weblogs, Inc. was a blog network that published content on a variety of subjects, including tech news, video games, automobiles, and pop culture.

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WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

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Window (computing)

In computing, a window is a graphical control element.

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Windows 10

Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile was a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants.

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WindowShade

WindowShade was a control panel extension for the classic Mac OS that allowed a user to double-click a window's title bar to "roll up" the window like a windowshade.

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Wireless network

A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.

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Word processor

A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.

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Workflow

Workflow is a generic term for orchestrated and repeatable patterns of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information.

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Workgroup Manager

Workgroup Manager is a computer program bundled as part of OS X Server for directory-based management of users, groups and computers across a network.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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Xar (archiver)

XAR (short for eXtensible ARchive format) is an open source file archiver and the archiver’s file format.

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Xcode

Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.

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Xgrid

Xgrid is a proprietary grid computing program and protocol developed by the Advanced Computation Group subdivision of Apple Inc.

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XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

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XNU

XNU ("X is Not Unix") is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which, in addition to being the basis for macOS, is also the basis for Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS. List of built-in macOS apps and XNU are macOS.

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Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.

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Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail (also written as Yahoo Mail) is an email service offered by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features.

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Z shell

The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

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ZDNET

ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.

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ZIP (file format)

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.

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.ipa

A.ipa file is an iOS and iPadOS application archive file which stores an iOS/iPadOS app.

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.pkg

.pkg (package) is a filename extension used for several file formats that contain packages of software and other files to be installed onto a certain device, operating system, or filesystem, such as macOS, iOS, the PlayStation Vita, the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5.

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See also

Apple Inc. lists

References

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