Yet just as Apple pioneered the graphical interface in the 1980s, it could now blaze a trail for the music industry.
People with no programming background can use the graphical interface and choose worlds from a number of templates, such as a shop or a puzzle game.
Apple didn't invent the digital musical player, the graphical user interface or the touchscreen.
Simonyi was at Xerox PARC in the 1970s when its scientists famously created the laser printer and the graphical user interface that the company failed to capitalize on.
The company, Thin Film Electronics, has a license with reasearch center PARC (inventor of the graphical user interface and the computer mouse) to market printable microelectronics devices.
His visions have included creating one of the first personal computers, commercializing the graphical user interface on the first Macintosh, bringing design to computing with the iMac, and developing the iPod.
At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
PowerCloud Systems is a spinout from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the legendary subsidiary of Xerox responsible for the creation of Ethernet, the Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the laser printer among other innovations.
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They took the VCs' money and ran: The graphical user interface went to Apple and appeared in the Lisa and the Macintosh, ethernet went to the startup 3Com, and the digital-printing language was snapped up by Adobe Systems.
The graphical user interface is bright, serene and well-ordered, with sensible heuristics for climate, phone, destination and media.
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Xerox, at its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), invented the graphical user interface, ethernet communications and the language of digital printing.
Xerox invented the graphical user interface, laser printing and zippy computer-to-computer communications.
The first was the graphical user interface, using a mouse as a pointing device, which Jobs adapted (some might say stole) from Xerox PARC and SRI to make the Macintosh.
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Former Windows Magazine editor Mike Elgan has referred to the new paradigm as "MPG" (multitouch, physics, gestures) However, while these user interfaces feature streamlined designs and more direct manipulation, they still form a bridge with the graphical user interface.
For example, dozens of people saw the graphical user interface set-up at the Xerox PARC facility in Palo Alto, but it was Jobs who, in 1979, perceived it differently and went on to adopt and adapt the technology for what ultimately became the first Macintosh computer, in 1984.
Take, for example, the GUI or Graphical User Interface, which allows the moving of items on a desktop computer using icons and a mouse.
But I remember hearing a story about a decision to test the Macintosh graphical user interface that I think says a lot about what made Steve Jobs different.
And, as a bonus, the online document has an inviting graphical interface for delving into the numbers for each country.
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Sendmail is selling a commercial version of the software with a special graphical interface, but it is also supporting the development of a free version of the program.
Alongside the Apple 1 and the Pascaline will be an original Apple Lisa, one of the earliest computers to feature a graphical interface and mouse -- technologies which paved the way for desktop computing as we know it today.
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When do you bet the company on graphical user interface, like we did with Windows?
And, two decades ago, that was certainly the case when Apple paired up a quirky all-in-one computer with a breakthrough graphical user interface for the original Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984.
When computers were the province of corporate programmers and youthful tinkerers he saw their possibilities for illuminating the lives of all of us, seizing on the first gropings by Xerox researchers who developed a primitive mouse and graphical interface, and perceiving in a flash there the chance for an epochal extension of the capabilities of everyone.
The dashboards provide a simple graphical user interface that allows users to query millions of rows of data.
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For example, when Apple came out with its graphical user interface in the 1980s, Microsoft eventually crushed it with its Windows system.
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It's not just one of the longest-serving releases at nearly 20 years old -- it's designed to be "pure" and cut back on customized apps, many graphical interface assistants and the requirement to download anything during the installation process.
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The intuitive and practical touchscreen makes navigating the camera's menus and graphical user interface effortless.
We needed both application coding and a user-friendly graphical interface which would make iGuidU the easy-to-use tool we wanted for our customers.
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