In January 2006, the first Intel Macs were announced. We’ll deal more with that anniversary in a year, but for now, it’s ...

I was recently moving some files around and came across a column I wrote for my college newspaper. I was on the design side ...

It’s Top Nine time over on Instagram, so it’s also Top Nine time here on the blog. Here’s my year, boiled down to nine images ...

In iOS 18.2 or later, the Mail app automatically sorts your email messages into categories to help you find and manage ...

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 ...

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 ...

512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, space, design, and other fine nerdery.

This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man ...

Released in September 2024, macOS 15 Sequoia was the fifth version of macOS to run on Apple silicon Macs and Intel machines, and the first release to feature Apple Intelligence, albeit not at launch.

The splashiest feature is Image Playgrounds, which allows users to create images based on photos in their image libraries: (Don’t look too closely at my hand in the image on the right.) Apple’s system ...

Released in October 2022, macOS 13 Ventura was the third version of macOS to run on Apple silicon Macs and Intel machines. For this release, Mac models released in 2016 were dropped from support.

I use several of Rogue Amoeba’s apps on a near-daily basis. They are critical to my work as a podcaster, and my Mac would be noticeably less useful without them. With the transition to Apple silicon, ...