Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 249

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 249. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Brown beverage came after next in central app frameworks.

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Cocoa

Brown beverage (cocoa drink) came after next (originated in NeXTSTEP) in central app frameworks (it includes the Foundation, AppKit and Core Data frameworks in macOS).

2: Encode, compress or encrypt and the reverse came in QuickTime.

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codec

Encode, compress or encrypt (a codec can do any of these) and the reverse (and decode, decompress or decrypt) came in QuickTime (its codecs enabled it to access a wide range of media).

3: Plan together perhaps to add signature to executables.

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codesign

Plan together perhaps (co-design) to add signature to executables (it’s the command tool used to sign executable code).

The common factor

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All three start with the letters co.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.