What would happen if you took the default image for every Mac wallpaper from Cheetah to Catalina, and combined them into a single image? The above, is what…
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- On March 24, 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (internally code named Cheetah). The initial version was slow, incomplete,and had very few applications available at the time of its launch, mostly from independent developers. Description Mac OS X Snow Leopard Dmg For Mac + Overview.
- Mac OS X 'Cheetah' Mac OS theme with the Aqua design guidelines. Maintainer: Elbullazul. Distributor: B00merang Project. License: GPL v3. More info: http.
I’m a Brit, so not prone to using a word beloved of many Americans, but I think this may be officially awesome.
iOS theme developer Jenny Vanille chose Xmas day to tweet her work, so not many noticed it, but TNW spotted it today.
It’s phenomenal. It’s like a magic eye painting. Or one of those weird drawings an AI created. In other words, it’s art.
Cheetah 03 / 2001 – OS X 10.0. The history of macOS started with a bear, not a cat: in September of 2000, Apple presented Kodiak. For 30$, users could purchase this first public Beta of Mac OS X. The official OS 10.0, Cheetah, followed 6 months later. Codenamed “Cheetah”, Mac OS X 10.0 was more a proof of concept than a useable OS, but it put a Macintosh GUI on top of UNIX and told the world that Apple was serious about moving ahead.
Vanille thinks no-one will ever use it.
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No one asked for this. But here it is: every macOS wallpaper from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to macOS 10.15 Catalina combined. I highly doubt that anyone will ever use this.
I can already prove her wrong.
If you want to use it as your own Mac wallpaper, you can download a 5K version here. While you’re there, you can also grab every iOS wallpaper in one image, as well as all the iPhone 11 wallpapers combined.
TNW doesn’t show every Mac wallpaper used but does provide an overview of the various generations to give a feel for how they’ve evolved over the years. As well as fantasizing about what I agree would be the best job in the world.
I like to think that somewhere inside the bureaucratic labyrinth of Apple’s employee structure, there’s a single person with the world’s greatest job. Each year, they only have to do a single thing: Traverse the world and try to take a sick photo of a landscape for the latest macOS wallpaper. Pc suite nokia e72 for mac.
I suspect the reality is more like sitting at a desk searching photography sites for images offering exclusive rights for sale …
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Which is your favorite default Mac wallpaper? And what do you think of this one? Let us know in the comments.
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