Heliographe: “If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design.”
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Again on the topic of icons, another article worth a read — with comparisons and examples from the original Macintosh HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) dating back to 1992.
Benjamin Button reviews macOS
Pretty funny reverse review of the evolution of macOS, starting from the latest — Tahoe: Apple’s first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface […]
Michael Feeney recreates his 2021 work from home routine on macOS 9, using the tools available at the time, and putting up with the limitations of the time.
Past for iChat
A small app to open old iChat logs (.chat and .ichat files). When upgrading to Big Sur I realised the new Messages.app can’t open them anymore. Not that I need to frequently, or ever. Recently though I was tidying up my archive and found a folder with unreadable past conversations. This fixes it.
I tweaked Mail — viewing options, toolbar and so on — as Manuel suggests here and I got to a pretty happy place. I’m now thinking of all the time I wasted trying out clients redirecting my emails to an ever growing network of servers, when all I needed to do was change the settings of Mail.
Anyway. Still not as good as Sparrow.
A step back
I am pleased to find out I am not the only one frustrated by the behaviour of the back button in Photos or bewildered by where it will take me in Music. There’s a growing list of apps, developed directly by Apple, that would benefit from having proper navigation but have opted for an erratic […]
The dark side of dark mode
TidBITS: Have you ever wondered why, if Dark Mode is such a revelation, it took Apple 35 years after the first Macintosh to revert to the look of the light-on-dark CRT-based monitors of the Apple ][ and IBM PC era? Were those green-on-black and amber-on-black screens really so wonderful? No, they weren’t, and one of […]
I wallpaper delle vecchie versioni di macOS — in alta risoluzione
Improvvisamente mi sembra di essere tornato indietro al PowerBook G4, a Tiger. Scaricate.
L’iPad non rimpiazza il Mac, e va bene così
Joshua Topolsky sul nuovo iPad: If you think you can replace you laptop with this setup: you cannot. Imagine a computer, but everything works worse than you expect. […] But this doesn’t COME CLOSE to replacing your laptop, even for simple things you do, like email. AND one other thing. Apple’s keyboard cover is a […]
OverSight
OverSight è una piccola utility sviluppata da Objective-See per monitorare l’uso e l’accesso alla videocamera e al microfono integrati nel Mac; l’app invia una notifica ogni volta che questi si attivano.
macOS: immaginando il successore di OS X
Andrew Ambrosino ha delle buone idee su come dovrebbe essere il prossimo OS X (o macOS, data la nomenclatura recente: watchOS, tvOS), che ha raccolto su Medium. Il primo OS X risale al 2001, circa 15 anni fa. È evoluto molto negli anni — sia in termini di design che funzionalità — finendo con l’includere App Store, Continuity, e […]