Every Default macOS Wallpaper – in Glorious 6K Resolution
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 world of 5K and 6K displays. If you want to …
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6 days ago · On January 5, 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the Aqua user interface for the very first time.Stylistically, it was a bold departure from what had come before, and was no doubt created with the iMac G3 in mind.. The changes were more than skin deep, and no where was the influence of NeXT’s software more evident than the Dock, a place for users to stash documents, an easy way to launch applications ...
Goodbye, Surface Studio — 512 Pixels
Dec 6, 2024 · For years, Apple fans have looked at the Surface Studio longingly, wondering what a version of a tilting Mac desktop could look like. Many wondered if Apple would ever do anything like this machine, adding Apple Pencil and touch support to macOS, or doing some wild Mac/iPad hybrid. I fear Apple won’t ever get that […]
Strategic Linear Contextual Bandits — 512 Pixels
Dec 4, 2024 · Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu, on Apple’s “Machine Learning Research” blog: Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to users, we study a strategic variant of the linear contextual bandit problem, where the arms strategically misreport privately observed […]
Connected 531: Gill Sands — 512 Pixels
Dec 11, 2024 · 512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, space, design, and other fine nerdery.
Performa Month - 512 Pixels
In August 2024, I spent way too much time detailing Apple’s confusing line of Performa computers. Background Welcome to Performa Month 68K Performas The First of a New Line of Macintosh: The Performa 200, 400, 600, & 600CD The First Updates: The 250, 405/410/430, & 450 The 520: A New All-in-One Design Fall 1993 Brought […]
macOS Sequoia’s Default Wallpaper (Updated) - 512 Pixels
Jun 10, 2024 · Download full-sized copies here: Light Sequoia; Dark Sequoia; UPDATE: I have heard from several Little Birdies that the default wallpapers in Sequoia aren’t in the traditional location in the file system because they aren’t traditional wallpapers. According to these Birdies, the Light Mode image is a .heic file as it has been in the past, but the dark mode version is made programmatically ...
All 13 Colors of iMac - 512 Pixels
May 5, 2016 · About a month ago, I set out to find every color of iMac G3. At the time, I only owned one model — a Sage. Today, the family is complete. I have a lot planned for these machines, but the first step was some documentation. I …
Apple Vision Pro: A Teleportation Device — 512 Pixels
Feb 6, 2024 · 512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, space, design, and other fine nerdery.
The Power Mac 4400 — 512 Pixels
In November 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 4400 with a starting price of $1,725. Also sold as the Power Macintosh 7220, it’d be easy to write this machine off as just another grain of sand on the beige beach that was Apple’s product line in the 1990s. I …