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You might not have heard of his name till this moment, but for sure you have been using something he has created everyday... and to be frank, I have all these while thought that it was by Microsoft or Macintosh. Larry Tesler, creator of copy, cut and paste function, dies at 74 New York(CNN Business)Larry Tesler, a pioneer of personal computing credited with creating the cut, copy and paste as well as the search and replace functions, has died. He was 74. Tesler was not nearly as well known as computing giants such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. But he played an early, central role in making computers accessible to people without computer engineering degrees, i.e. most of us. Xerox (XRX), the company for whom he developed the functions, tweeted out news of his death. "Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas," the company's tweet said. Cut, copy and paste and search and replace functions are used millions of times a day without users thinking twice about how they were developed or by whom. But before Tesler's work, computer users had to interact with clunky programs in different "modes," where the same commands meant different things depending on how they were used. Even an expert like Tesler found that to be a problem. "Most interactive programs had modes, which always tripped me up," he wrote in a 2012 paper about the development of copy, cut and paste. Tesler became a champion of eliminating modes from computer programs. His personal web site was nomodes.com. The elimination of modes opened the door to how computer users have interacted with personal computers for the last 40 years. Much of that work was done not at one of today's tech giants, but at a computer lab at Xerox. Today most people know Xerox only as a maker of copiers, but in its heyday the company developed much of the technology that led to the personal computer: the mouse, a graphical user interface that allowed for more than lines of text on a screen. The work was done at the company's Silicon Valley-based Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC. Tesler was at the center of those efforts, and is credited with coining the terms "friendly user interface" and "browser" during his time at Xerox. When Jobs visited Xerox PARC in 1979, he met with Tesler. "You're sitting on a gold mine!" Tesler later recalled Jobs telling him. "Why aren't you doing something with this technology? You could change the world!" Jobs was right: Xerox was not taking advantage of the pivotal research being done at Xerox Parc. So Apple (AAPL) to became the first to make broad use of the graphic user interface, as well as the mouse and other features. Tesler left Xerox for Apple in 1980, where he rose to the position of vice president and chief scientist. While there he helped to design the Macintosh computer, QuickTime and the Lisa computer, one of the first personal computers to use a graphical user interface. It was the Lisa that popularized the now-familiar copy, paste and undo shortcuts. (That's C to copy, V to paste and Z to undo). "I have been mistakenly identified as the 'father of the graphical user interface for the Macintosh,'" Tesler wrote on his website. "I was not. However, a paternity test might expose me as one of its many grandparents." Tesler stayed at Apple until in 1997. In 2001 he joined Amazon (AMZN), where he served as vice president of shopping experience. He then went to Yahoo (YAHOF) in 2005, where he was vice president of user experience and design. He was issued numerous patents while working at those firms. Until his death, Tesler served as a consultant to companies like Western Union (WU) and note-taking app Evernote on how to improve their user experience on desktop and mobile. He was dedicated to innovating, simplifying, improving. "As is my personality, if I ever hear somebody say something's impossible or extremely difficult, almost impossible, it's a challenge and I always try to do it," he said in an interview at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum in 2013. One thing he never overcame -- his hatred of modes. He drove around California with the personalized license plate "NOMODES."

Just want to confirm this myth once and for all. There are TOO much confusion over this issue till today for car. Let's not talk about motorcycle plate, as that is really going to messed up the LTA Vs Inspectors opinion further. Lets keep to car plate in this thread. Is sticker type licence plate legal and can pass LTA inspection or the overly enthusiastic inspectors at test centers? Background. The stickers wordings size and thickness and spacing strictly follows LTA standards. Instead of pasting it on a metal plate and frame, it is directly pasted onto the same location where the licence plate is design to be by car manufacturer. That means the sticker is pasted onto the front plastic bumper where the usual metal licence plates are expected to be, same for the rear metal boot licence plate placement location. What is your opinion? All along I believe it is fully legal. Untill I read this article on sgcarmart. http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/writeup.php?AID=339 3. Don't put yourself in a sticky situation The LTA does not allow vehicle owners to attach sticker-type car plates to their vehicles in place of the standard ones made out of aluminium or acrylic. Anyone from LTA can once and for all confirm this matter?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American Idol, the most popular music reality show in US television history, will end after its 15th season airs in January next year, Fox Television said on Monday. The show was once a ratings powerhouse for Fox, watched by more than 30 million viewers at its peak, but the popularity of the competition, which launched the careers of stars such as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, has fallen in recent years. Just 10.6 million viewers tuned in for American Idol's 2014 finale, compared with 11.6 million for NBC's rival singing competition The Voice. The final season will feature long-time host Ryan Seacrest and current judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick, Jr, Fox said. Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc , said in February last year that it expected to wind down American Idol after lower ratings led to a fall in advertising revenue in the company's TV unit. "We've known it's coming to the end," Chase Carey, president of 21st Century Fox, had said at the time. A spin-off of British music competition Pop Idol, which aired between 2001 and 2003, American Idol's success led the format being replicated around the world, with shows such as Australian Idol, Latin American Idol and Indian Idol. In the United States, American Idol's resounding success led to a host of similar show, including The Voice, CBS's Rock Star, and Fox's The X Factor. The show's original judges were music producer Randy Jackson, who left the show after 13 seasons, singer Paula Abdul, who left in 2009, and the acerbic Simon Cowell, who left in 2010. American Idol has since gone through a host of celebrity judges, such as Mariah Carey, Kara Dioguardi, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/television/story/curtain-will-fall-american-idol-after-15th-season-says-fox-20150512#xtor=CS1-10 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Test +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hi, Anyone know where to get the Mother pure Brazilian carnauba wax paste? I used this many year ago from ACE (a hardware shop in Novina)which already closed down. Or anyone can recommend me another similar carnauba wax paste. I prefer the pure wax type not the cleaner wax. Thanks.

Anybody has experience with turtle products for waxing. Any recommendation. Ice, carnube, liquid or paste.

Any harm using wax to polish the glass of the headlight lamp? The glass got very stubborn water marks.

Hi all member, May i ask when i paste the blind spot mirror its should be the left bottom or right bottom???????

Bought a new Japanese paste wax for dark colored cars, that claimed to last 3mths and is water repellent. Did a preparation round of wash + SRP polish + liquid wax on the previous wk, and one wk later, washed the car and put on this new Jap wax. It was actually pretty easy to use, and as long as applied thinly, easy to buff off wif MF cloth as well, and smells of fresh lemon! After my ride was smooth and shiny, I parked it in my company's open carpark, under rain and shine... and this is the result 2 wks later... Water spots spotted on the bonnet, but only those on the top of the slope (nearer to windscreen) are more obvious. But the water spots on the boot are more obvious, probably becos the boot is level and water does not flow down easily. And the bottom of all doors are covered with muddy water spots fr driving through all the water paddles. Though my ride looks pretty bad wif all the water spots and a couple of bird shits on the roof, surprisingly the car is still rather shiny. So it's actually considered not so bad for a not-washed-for-2-wks car Then I washed my ride with shampoo, wash down and dried it, and the shine is back again! Like as if I've just waxed it! I'm not sure if it's really possible for this wax to last 3mths in our weather, but for the ease of use and shine that last, I think it's not so bad The only thing I dun understand is, why the Japanese must use diff wax for dark and light cars leh? Dun see why shd there be a diff unless they added some additives so that dark car wax makes a dark car looks darker and vice versa for light car wax? hmm...

hi guys, where to buy this two items ah? my bumper kanna some minor scratch marks and paint drop.

Rented a car few days back. Checked the servicing record of the car. 20k mileage for next servicing. Checked odometer. read 41k. Checked Engine oil. It was below half level, slightly and black like kopi. Asked the guy who passed the car to me, he said the thing was just for show only. So true?

Just bought a container of the Meguiar's All Metal Polysh from , but the polish looks more solid than paste? Was kinda expecting a paste... or is it normal? Paiseh ah, never use before, so dunno whether to expect a paste or solid like what I've got. Thanks!

Anybody tried this and can review? Seems very promising and good from the blurb on the box.

Hi guys Wonder if any guru can commend on this product. Its the chemical guys pete's 53 paste wax. My friend tried it on his black audi, his feedback is the shine is better than the collinite 476 and 845. Still looking into durability.

I appreciate if someone could let me know if any car grooming center uses paste wax. Most of the car grooming center I've been to only uses liquid wax.

Hi all, Need some help as to are we able to paste a picture or graphic right onto the email page, not as an attachment? Cos I'm thinking of creating a personal graphic 2008 CNY greeting message and sending it to friends. (I'm using Yahoo mail). Thanks in advance

hi, i tried pasting pics on this page, but still couldn't do it.... i followed the instructions to do it, but i still dun see any pic pasted on the page!!! all i see is a small red 'X'. help................

Any reviews on this? I couldn't find much info thru searching the forum. If compared to Turtle Wax Platinum Ultra Gloss Paste Wax? Which gives a better shine?

Where find paste of those tinted sunshade at upper portion of windscreen cheaps?

Hi, What is the diff and which is more adv to use? Both pricing is about the same.

Hi, I would like to know where u guys paste the windscreen decal/stickers, I mean those big one across the windscreen type...inside or outside? I always think it doesn't look so nice on outside... coz u'll lost a fraction of shininess (kekeke) but will inside affect ur solar film? eg. u might wanna redo ur film etc... onli a slight diff of labour cost if done by the shop... Would lik 2 know ur opinion... thx...

Wat do u guys think? hahahaha... The "before" and "after" cut and paste look Poorly done job I must admit... but was just wondering how my beng car can become "beng-er" !!! To the guys who were talking to me at the MSCP meetup... sorry if I didnt catch all of u...was blur when few people talked to me at the same time... then abit tired and sian cos went to meetup after IPPT and dinner... I flunked the IPPT obviously ...and RT looms ahead.... hahaha... But still enjoyed the moments and the meetup with all the nice cars, especially those with the red and blue flashing lights on the roof My car not very chio lar... and the silver dash just some stickons so paisey.... Just a poor riceboy trying to make my car rice-R Hope to see u folks again