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General Magic was the company that created the Magic Cap operating system and hand-held devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy. Many concepts from Magic Cap went on to new lives in later products like the Danger Hiptop, Apple iPhone, and Google Android. Before General Magic became a company in 1990, it was an internal project at Apple called “Paradigm.” One day while I was working at General Magic, the marketing department was throwing away old stuff, so as the self...

The Long View         There are some great source level debuggers for the Mac, but all of them are programs that depend on the toolbox to interact with you and draw stuff on the screen to help you figure out what’s going wrong.  When your program is really in dire straits, and has taken the operating system down with it,  there is no substitute for a debugger that doesn’t need a working operating system.  For the pre-OSX Macintosh, this was usually Macsbug.  Macsbug was great, bec...

A veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha is dead. The movie star died in the early hours of Saturday after a prolonged battle with diabetes. Monalisa Chinda-Coker, Director of Communications Actors Guild of Nigeria, confirmed the news in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES . “On behalf of the entire members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, the National President, Ejezie Emeka Rollas commiserate with the immediate family members, friends and fans. He prays that God comfort them at this moment of ...

  Veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha, has died after losing his battle with diabetes and blindness. He was aged 68. He died at the National Hospital Abuja in the early hours of today Saturday, April 10. The Abia-state born actor had been in coma for about three weeks before giving up. His body has been deposited at the hospital mortuary. A statement signed by the Director of Communications, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Monalisa Chinda Coker, reads “ It is on a sad note that we announce the pa...

By Michael Bamidele 10 April 2021   |   5:46 pm Bruno Iwuoha Veteran Nigerian actor, Bruno Iwuoha, has died after a prolonged battle with diabetes. He was 68 years old. x Iwuoha died in the early hours of Saturday, April 10, at the National Hospital Abuja. A statement signed by the Director of Communications, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Monalisa Chinda Coker, reads, “It is on a sad note that we announce the passing away of our elder col...

Veteran Nollywood actor, Bruno Iwuoha has passed on after a prolonged battle with diabetes. The spokesperson for the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Monalisa China Coker broke the news in a statement. “It is on a sad note that we announce the passing away of our elder colleague and active member of AGN Abuja, Bruno Obinna Iwuoha. He died in the early hours of this morning (10/04/2021) after a prolonged battle with diabetes,” the statement read. It is understood that the Abia state-born actor...

By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interface emerges that is based on language, a richer representation of objects, expert users, and shared control. At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore. Physicist...