MultiFinder let you switch between running applications from the Apple menu — you could even see two apps side by side on your desktop! Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac August 11, 1987: The ...

Apple has unveiled macOS 26, the latest version of its Mac operating system, which chiefly brings with it a new system-wide visual look intended to make it more usable and productive. "macOS is the ...

Friday FOSS fest There are some idiosyncrasies about macOS that long term Mac users may never notice, but cause frustration in people more used to how Windows does things – or the much more ...

January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus, its third Mac model and the first to be released after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company the previous year. The Mac Plus boasts an ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

The retrocomputing community are experts at keeping vintage Apple iron running, but if you’re looking for a simpler way to pay homage to the original Mac, check out this Raspberry Pi powered ‘desk ...

When Apple released System 7 three decades ago on May 13, 1991, it was the biggest change to the Mac since the start. While it came with some problems, it also brought us features we still use today.

Resource forks were an important part of the Classic Mac OS, where they provided a standard way to store structured file data, metadata and application resources. This usage continued into Mac OS X ...

It’s easy to forget where we’ve come from, for better and worse. To help us remember both the good and the bad, and to elicit stories from long-time Mac users, we’re going to look back into our ...

The libmultifinder library is cross-platform C library that allows searching a stream of data for multiple search patterns. The data to be searched is not to be loaded into memory, which make this a ...

Though the Health app officially syncs most of your Apple Watch's activity data as of iOS 11, Apple still offers a stand-alone Activity app to get a more concentrated look at your fitness alongside ...