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Apple Remote Desktop

1. Aimed at workgroup administrators responsible for a large number of computers or an individual who needs access to assist individuals, Apple Remote Desktop allows administrators to control and monitor other computers over the network
2. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) replaced a similar product called Apple Network Assistant, which was present in OS 9

boolean

1. The LOGICAL keyword and associated operations .NOT., .AND., .OR., etc. were introduced in the 1950s, before Fortran was standardized
2. System.Console.WriteLine(myBool ? "I = 5" : "I != 5")
3. Objective-C provides a type BOOL, and macros YES and NO

Disk Utility

1. Disk-related tasks: creation, conversion/compression of disk images, mounting/unmounting, controlling journalling, verifying disk integrity, verify/repair permissions, secure deletion of files, partitioning, managing RAID Drives and restoring volumes
2. the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X

Graphical user interface builder

1. Graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced / u .i/) is a type of interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices such as computers
2. a software development tool that simplifies the creation of GUIs by allowing the designer to arrange widgets using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor
3. Without a GUI builder, a GUI must be built by manually specifying each widget's parameters in code, with no visual feedback until the program is run
4. User interfaces are commonly programmed using an event-driven architecture, so GUI builders also simplify creating event-driven code
5. This supporting code connects widgets with the outgoing and incoming events that trigger the functions providing the application logic

iPhone

1. Released July 11, 2008, the iPhone 3G supports faster 3G data speeds and assisted GPS
2. This second-generation iPhone 3G have UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
3. Released June 26, 2009, the iPhone 3GS is built on the same 3G network speeds and assisted GPS as its predecessor
4. The third-generation iPhone 3GS has UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
5. Originally announced on January 9, 2007 Apple entered the market with its first Smart Phone
6. The first generation iPhone has a 2.0 Megapixel camera, portable media functions, internet (including email, web browsing, and Wi-Fi conductivity) as well as text messaging and visual voicemail
7. 
   The proximity and ambient light sensors on the iPhone 3G
8. 
   A highlighted view of the proximity and ambient light sensors on the first-generation iPhone

Keychain Access

1. Keychain Access is a Mac OS X management tool for Keychain, a repository for passwords, permissions and security information
2. a Mac OS X application that allows the user to access the Apple Keychain and configure its contents, including passwords for Websites, Web forms, FTP servers, SSH accounts, network shares, wireless networks, groupware applications, encrypted disk ima
3. There are two main reasons for using Keychain Access; to access passwords that you’ve forgotten and to gain access to stored security information such as PINs and credit card numbers

Logic board

1. Originally used in conjunction with the first compact Macs in the 1980s, which had two separate circuit boards
2. coined back in the 1980s, when the compact Macs at the time had two separate circuit boards, the Logic Board, containing all of the computer's "logic" circuitry (processor, RAM, etc.), and the analog board, containing all of the hardware necessary to
3. the Apple Macintosh equivalent of a motherboard

Metadata

"data about data", of any sort in any media

Mini AV Cable

1. A mini AV cable ( 1/4" Mini A/V Male out to 3 RCA Male ) is typically packaged with most camcorders
2. The mini AV Cable accommodates the on board 1/4" jack found on most camcorders and is used to display recorded video on a television, computer or LCD monitor
3. Mini AV cables are rarely used now a days to transfer video as Firewire 400 has taken its place

Mini DV Video Camera

1. MiniDV or mini Digital Video (DV) was developed by Sony, JVC, Panasonic and other partnering camera producers as a universal tape format to be used in video cameras after 1995
2. The DV specification defines not only its tape format but also its codec, IEC 61834 that uses DCT intraframe fixed bitrate compression (25.146 Mbit/s) and sound data (1.536 Mbit/s)
3. Most cameras connect via FireWire IEEEE 1394 serial transfer along with a analog composite video (Mini AV Cable) and Y/C (S-video) outputs

RCA connector

jack, also referred to as a phono connector or CINCH/AV connector, is a type of electrical connector that is commonly used in the audio/video market

Remote Desktop

Clients exist for most versions of Windows (including handheld versions), and other operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and PalmOS

Screen Sharing

Because Screen Sharing is a VNC client, it may also be used to control any computer running a VNC server if the IP address of the target computer is known and accessible

Touch

a portable media player and Wi-Fi mobile platform designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The product was launched on September 5, 2007 through an event called The Beat Goes On

Video camera

1. It was initially developed along side the emergence of television in the 1930s but additional applications have been added such as camcorders, closed-circuit television (CCTV), Webcams, Digital Cameras, mobile phones, PDAs, satellites and robotics
2. a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well

Virtual Network Computing

1. a graphical desktop sharing system which uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer
2. Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical user interface that allows you to access another computer desktop virtually
3. 
   VNC in KDE