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Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bretworrydream.com.
Even though the target audience is fairly small (SF bay area public transportation riders with the latest Mac OS and knowledge of how to customize it), user feedback has been wildly enthusiastic, and the widget received the 2007 Apple Design Award, as well as Macworld magazine's rare perfect rating. Researchers have created systems (with varying degrees of success) for constructing interactive GUI widgets, defining parameterized graphical shapes, moving and renaming files, performing regular expression-like text transformation, and other domain-specific tasks. All software today performs an intricate dance of feeding a processor primitive machine-level instructions, repolarizing tiny magnets in hard drives, transmitting bits reliably across wires, and lighting up specific pixels on a screen.
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