Mac OS X 10.1 Puma Revisited
Stephen Hackett: Jobs said that the software team didn’t take a vacation after OS X shipped, but kept working to improve the operating system. Four point updates had been released over the Internet,...
View ArticleRetro Dither 1.0.1
David Kopec: Today I launched a new novelty Mac app, Retro Dither. Retro Dither gives any photo a cool retro look using just black and white pixels. You may want this for artistic effect, or you may...
View ArticleManual Full Justification
Matt Gemmell: The most amazing thing I’ve ever read is a guide to the SNES game Super Metroid. […] Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting. […] See how...
View ArticleCelebrating Steve Jobs
Jason Fried: On the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing, Jony Ive reflected on the man he worked with for nearly 30 years. It was a lovely remembrance, primarily orbiting the sanctity of the...
View ArticleOld Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Andy Matuschak: Why are there no “standard texts” on designing software interfaces? (or tell me I’m wrong?)If you want to learn to build software, there are excellent and complete texts on the subject....
View ArticleiPod at 20
Roger Cheng (via Joe Rossignol): When Apple executive Jon Rubinstein, who had been tasked with creating a music player, came knocking in early 2001, Fadell was already working on his own startup, Fuse...
View ArticleDefault macOS Wallpapers
Dave Mark: Follow the headline link, start scrolling for a walk through all the different default macOS wallpapers, going all the way back to Mac OS X Tiger, which dropped back in 2005. There are some...
View ArticleThinkTank Review From 1983
Dave Winer: [Way] back in 1983, Infoworld reviewed ThinkTank, my first outliner. This review, along with the one in the NYT, launched the company. Early the next year we shipped our Macintosh product...
View ArticleForgotten Image Formats
Ernie Smith (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way...
View ArticleFirst MacPaint and MacWrite Public Demo
level1807 (via John Siracusa): The well-known presentation already available on YouTube is from January 24 of 1984. What’s not so well remembered: Jobs did it all twice, in less than a week. Six days...
View ArticleAOL Exploits Bug in Own Software
Geoff Chappell (in 1999, via Hacker News): In e-mail of dubious origin sent to security expert Richard M. Smith, it is alleged not only that the AIM client software has a so-called “buffer overflow”...
View ArticleWilliam Cook, RIP
Hamish Sanderson: Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57. Shriram Krishnamurthi: Much of 1990s...
View ArticleCocoa Culture
Adam Gordon Bell (Hacker News): The team where people roll their eyes at UX feedback will not have as simple of a product as a team where the user experience is highly valued. If software performance...
View ArticleAbrahams on the Design of Swift
Dave Abrahams, former lead of the Swift standard library and SwiftUI contributor: My Rebase 2021 talk, “a retrospective on the design of Swift,” is up at [YouTube] This is a very interesting talk...
View ArticleCT Scans of AirPods
Sami Fathi (Hacker News): New detailed CT scan images of the first-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, and third-generation AirPods have revealed in detail what internal design changes Apple had to...
View Article25 Years of Apple + NeXT
Steve Hayman (Hacker News, MacRumors): In retrospect, the tech involved in the merger wound up being so one-sided that many people say “NeXT actually bought Apple for negative $400,000,000.” A few...
View ArticleDesign Evolution of the Windows Control Panel
Version Museum (via Hacker News): The Control Panel in Microsoft Windows has been around as long as the operating system itself. It’s been the nerve center for the world’s most popular desktop...
View ArticleTumblr vs. the App Store
Tumblr: For those of you who access Tumblr through our iOS app, we wanted to share that starting today you may see some differences for search terms and recommended content that can contain specific...
View ArticleA Guide to NSButton Styles, 2022
Kuba Suder (tweet): It was hard to figure out the purpose and intended use of each kind of button, and there were hardly any clues inside Xcode itself. So I decided to do some research to find some...
View ArticleEvery Mac OS Welcome Video
TechieFreddie (via Dave Mark): macos used to have intro videos, here’s their history! These are the videos that would play during installation, from Mac OS 8 through Snow Leopard. Previously: Default...
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