Steve Jobs unveiled the Aqua user interface for the very first time. Stylistically, it was a bold departure from what had ...

This week on Mac Power Users, David and I discuss the task managers we tried in 2024, and what we are currently using to get ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

I haven’t gotten very far into this interview yet, but Serlet’s history and career should be more widely known than it is.

Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the ...

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To go with my collection of default Mac OS X macOS wallpapers in 5K resolution, I’ve gathered the wallpapers that shipped with Mac OS 9 and re-worked them to modern-day sizes. Most of them are very ...

Big Sur’s announcement brought a lot of change to the Mac operating system. As if ushering in a new UI wasn’t enough, it’s also the transition OS for Apple Silicon Macs, which can run iOS and iPadOS ...

In September 2000, Mac users could get a taste of the future with the Mac OS X Public Beta. For sale for $29, the release was plagued with problems, but showed off the Aqua interface and the marriage ...

In January 2006, the first Intel Macs were announced. We’ll deal more with that anniversary in a year, but for now, it’s worth walking through the final full year of PowerPC Macs. Transitions happen ...

macOS Big Sur helped usher in the Apple silicon era, and with it, a new design of macOS. For 2021, Monterey has a less ambitious set of tasks, but it does continue Apple’s efforts to better tie the ...