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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
Aqua (user interface) Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple 's macOS and iOS operating systems. It was originally based on the theme of water, with droplet-like components and a liberal use of reflection effects and translucency.
The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Several vendors have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that ...
Apple Computer 1. The Apple Computer 1 (Apple-1[a]), later known predominantly as the Apple I, [b] is an 8-bit motherboard -only personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak [5][6] and released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. The company was initially formed to sell the Apple I – its first product – and would later ...
Mac Pro 2nd generation (Cylinder), launched December 19, 2013. MacBook Retina, launched April 10, 2015. Touch Bar of MacBook Pro with Butterfly keyboard, launched October 27, 2016. iMac Pro, launched December 14, 2017. MacBook Air (13-inch, Retina), launched October 30, 2018. Mac Pro (3rd generation) "cheese grater", launched December 10, 2019.
Bliss. Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the ...
iMac. The iMac is a series of all-in-one computers from Apple Inc. operating on the MacOS. Introduced by Steve Jobs in August 1998 when the company was financially troubled, the computer was an inexpensive, consumer-oriented computer that would easily connect to the Internet. Since that time, it has remained a primary part of Apple's consumer ...
Apple II graphics. Apple II graphics debuted on the original Apple II in 1977 and were used throughout the computer series of the same name. The graphics consist of a 16 color low-resolution mode and a high-resolution mode where visuals are dependent on artifact color. The Apple IIe added "double" versions of each of these, most prominently ...