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

In September 2000, Mac users could get a taste of the future with the Mac OS X Public Beta. For sale for $29, the release was plagued with problems, but showed off the Aqua interface and the marriage ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Big Sur’s announcement brought a lot of change to the Mac operating system. As if ushering in a new UI wasn’t enough, it’s also the transition OS for Apple Silicon Macs, which can run iOS and iPadOS ...

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.