Over the years, I have scoured the internet for various versions of the Mac HIG PDFs. Here is my collection so far.

Some neat ones include HIGs for Mac OS 8 & a preliminary Mac OS X version from the Public Beta.

These HIGs contain general desktop guidelines that still apply today & that you can't find in the modern HIG.

Please retoot! Everyone should read these.

iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/03elmPnR30gJQkCs-7pkmNoeA#Macintosh_HIG_Collection

DB: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/gziho6zcerb8n2jvwn2vh/AFTncRmOaOkSS0Z6HoqaLDo?rlkey=6eby48c1tm5uayzbacd8tfyc6&st=97rkv6j1&dl=0

#Mac #HIG #Macintosh #UIUX #UserExperience #macOS #MacHIG #MacOSX

What is Apple's MobileAsset? What are mesu, pallas, gdmf?

I got tired of this knowledge being passed from person to person instead of being documented properly.

Now I can finally say, here read this: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/MobileAsset

Wrote a tiny post about leveraging Munki installcheck_scripts to enforce computer naming conventions, after getting to watch a great talk by @scriptingosx on the subject.

https://jc0b.computer/posts/computer-namer-nopkg/

#macadmins

Introducing QuickTune 7 for macOS + Apple Music. A project in collaboration with @tuomas_h.

Control Apple Music with this mini player that has the look and feel of QuickTime 7 on Mac OS X Tiger or Mac OS X Leopard.

Download for free today!
https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune

#QuickTune #QuickTime #MacOSX #iTunes #MacOSXTiger #MacOSXLeopard #macOS #AppleMusic #Aqua

For Vintage Macintosh Programming adventures, there are some useful archives of books online:

Inside Macintosh (original 80's):
https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/

Inside Macintosh (newer 90's):
https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/

Programming for Macintosh:
https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/

Hardware and Developer Documentation:
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/

#RetroComputing #Mac68K #Books