Mastodawn

A good critique of MacOS new menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

It highlights @scottjenson 's point from https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=eBP04-Yp3Z1Qf_Wm on how desktop UX keeps getting worse, not better.

#ux #macos

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me

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Apple Product Collection Oct 21

@krishnadraws Bonus: all the control points on that icon are draggable!

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Apple Product Collection Oct 19

@macgarden This came with Apple keyboards — they didn’t have their own manual, and everything you needed to know about them (how to plug them in, what the keys did) was covered in your computer’s manual.

A similar sheet came with Apple graphics cards (since expansion card installation is covered in your computer’s manual).

Apple Product Collection Oct 14

@thomasfuchs If you’re willing to donate them, I’ll pay to have them shipped to the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, a non-profit video game preservation museum in Oakland, CA

Apple Product Collection Oct 11

joshuatj Oct 10

Woohoo! Great #DigiPres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

BBC

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Apple Product Collection Oct 9

@d_j_fitzgerald This is just so fun. Congratulations!

Apple Product Collection Sep 20

Nanoraptor Sep 17, 2025

The Power Macintosh G2 Cube shown here with the higher-end 75Mhz PPC603, memory slot, and LC-PDS compatible expansion was an addition to the Macintosh family.