The Mac turns 40 today. Longtime Apple fan Alfred DiBlasi is a bit older. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Back in the early 1980s, Alfred DiBlasi made his bones selling tons of Apple computers on ...

January 5, 1999: Apple introduces a revised Power Mac G3 minitower, nicknamed the “Blue and White G3” or “Smurf Tower” to distinguish it from the earlier beige model. The first new Power Mac since the ...

Frame of preference is a history of the settings available on the Apple Macintosh during its classic era. "As a designer, I'm meant to dislike settings," writes author Marcin Wichary. "As a user, I ...

I never thought I'd be riveted by a history of the Macintosh Control Panel, but an article about its design evolution has brought out the Apple history nerd in me. And I especially didn't expect to ...

January 24, 2024, was the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh, and publications around the Web posted remembrances of Macs past. After Nello Lucchesi got the ball rolling on TidBITS Talk by mentioning ...

What’s a Mac app that was included on the very first Macintosh back in 1984 – long before the internet – and still exists on today’s machines, albeit with a different name? Designer and author Marcin ...

If you’re into Macs, you’ll always remember your first. Maybe it was the revolutionary classic of 1984 fame, perhaps it was the adorable G3 iMac in 1998, or even a shiny OS X machine in the 21st ...

In 2019, this ‘Twiggy’ Mac prototype sold for just over $150K. In 2019, this ‘Twiggy’ Mac prototype sold for just over $150K. is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets ...

Terrence Smith has been writing since his early childhood, when he wrote his first fanfiction: Taz in the Temple of Cyber Power. He has grown up on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles in the ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...