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- access permissions
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Settings that determine who can read, write, or move a file or folder.
- accessibility
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The degree to which a device or program is usable by people with disabilities.
- Action menu
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A pop-up menu that appears in dialog boxes and windows in the form of a gear icon. It provides access to commonly used commands.
- admin user
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An administrative user of Mac OS X; a user who can read, write, and move some files that do not belong to him and who can change locked System Preferences settings and install new software.
- AIFF
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Audio Interchange File Format is a sound file format used by iMovie and other multimedia programs.
- AirPort
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An Apple-branded combination of hardware (AirPort cards and the AirPort base station) ...
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