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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-appointed, unofficial General Magic historian, I dug through their trash and discovered this: a con...

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, because it was so simple.  It didn’t draw windows or use the mouse.  You could type cryptic 2-lette...

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 grief. May the souls of all faithful departed Rest In Peace,” the statement read. Background The v...

  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 passing away of our elder colleague and active member of AGN Abuja, Bruno Obinna Iwuoha.  He died in ...