Tag: macos
During the summer of 1983, after spending more than six months creating symbols and icons for Macintosh files and menus, designer Susan Kare‘s attention turned to an issue…
Apple introduced Mac OS 9, the last edition of the “classic” Mac OS line, in 1999 and buried it less than three years after in May 2002, at…
Introduced on the stage by Steve Jobs during the May 1999 WWDC Keynote, the “Mac OS Anthology” was a collection of many Mac OS operating systems to aid…
At the World Wide Developer Conference of 2008 Apple made a small but significant move in the naming of its operating systems, removing the “Mac” prefix from Mac…
The most touted feature of Mac OS 9 was the new Sherlock 2 but there were lots of other new features, mostly related to the development and coming…
On October 22, 1999 Apple launched Mac OS 9, its major new release of the Macintosh operating system. The last boxed edition of the “classic” Mac OS line…
In “Snow Leopard: Party like it’s 1998” there’s an attempt to quell the outcry of Mac users for Apple dropping PowerPC support in Snow Leopard by recalling the…
In 2001 Apple was still at the beginning of its slow transition from the Mac OS 9 era into the X one and also building up what would…
In “The hands Cupertino” it’s been stated that notwithstanding Apple’s long and heterogeneous output there is a constant in its promotional iconography: the use of hands. To make…
Currently CEO of Generic Media Peter Hoddie is one of the many important and talented developers in Apple history and also a key to its prominent position in…