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 …

Feb 4, 2025 · Jason Snell is back at it, for the 10th annual report card: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to […]

5 days ago · Jason Snell:. Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter of 2025, which covers the last three months of 2024. As expected, it was an all-time revenue record at $124.3 billion, up 4% from the year-ago previous recordholder. Probably most notable is that iPhone revenue was down 1% from the year-ago quarter, which will certainly upset some analysts and investors ...

Jan 13, 2025 · After years of waiting, AT&T Fiber finally became available on my side of the street,1 giving me access to sweet, sweet gigabit speed both to and from the Internet. This became the impetus for me to replace most of my home network. I was using a set of pretty old eero base stations, back from […]

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 90s, just like Apple’s hardware at the time.. Sponsored by Rogue Amoeba. Rogue Amoeba is a proud continuing sponsor of the 512 Pixels Mac Wallpaper Archive.

6 days ago · This week on the show: The guys reflect on the Vision Pro’s first year and then talk about things that matter more, like the recent resurgence of read-it-later apps and Apple’s new Invites app.

Jan 30, 2025 · Jason Snell:. Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter of 2025, which covers the last three months of 2024. As expected, it was an all-time revenue record at $124.3 billion, up 4% from the year-ago previous recordholder. Probably most notable is that iPhone revenue was down 1% from the year-ago quarter, which will certainly upset some analysts and investors ...

4 days ago · This was an article sent to 512 Pixels members last month. Learn more about membership here. At the end of every year, I publish a photo on Instagram cataloging the Field Notes notebooks I used over the previous 12 months. Here is the most recent picture: Every year, I get questions about this. I wrote a bit about […]

Dec 4, 2024 · Simon B. Støvring has launched a new app: Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences. I love this, and not just because it reminds me of the old Holiday Lights app.

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