It wasn't just cost and Moore's law. The graphical user interface -- now known as the GUI ("gooey") -- is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous. Its friendly icons and ...

File this one under "wildly useful." Ars Technica reader and forum member Michael Gorbach recently released MacFusion, an application that creates an easy-to-use GUI for MacFUSE, which is Google Lab's ...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them. But the designers of a new tool have a big ambition: to ...

[Navin] has been hard at work producing a GUI which works with different micocontrollers. The idea is to make it even easier to develop projects by simplifying the feedback and control you can get ...

One of the more powerful features of Linux is the simple way that new commands can be constructed using aliases, shell scripts and other textual tricks. These techniques rely on a command-line ...