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What is a GUI or gooey
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Tuesday March 30, 2010
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Tuesday March 30, 2010
When someone says they like your "gooey," don't get scared and don't contemplate filing a harassment lawsuit. This person is just making a comment on the overall look of the graphical user interface (or GUI, pronounced "gooey") of the program you're using. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
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Windows Media Show Notes
- GUI stands for "graphical user interface"
- Sometimes people refer to it as "gooey" based on the letters G-U-I.
- DOS and other early operating systems were text based.
- The interfaces were bland and flat. No millions of colors.
- Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux 9.10 are all graphical user interfaces.
- GUI's bring life, color, pictures, shadows, animation and much more to computing.
- Graphical user interfaces make it easier to work and play.
- Sometimes people refer to it as "gooey" based on the letters G-U-I.
- DOS and other early operating systems were text based.
- The interfaces were bland and flat. No millions of colors.
- Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux 9.10 are all graphical user interfaces.
- GUI's bring life, color, pictures, shadows, animation and much more to computing.
- Graphical user interfaces make it easier to work and play.
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