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The current versions are 6.3.6 for recent versions of macOS, 5.6.1 for Microsoft Windows and older versions [50] of Mac OS X, [51] and 1.3.4 for iOS. [52] On January 30, 2013, Apple released AirPort Utility 6.0 for macOS featuring a redesign of the user interface focused on increasing usability for novice users. [53]
With the purchase of NeXT in late 1996, Apple developed a new operating system strategy based largely on the existing OPENSTEP for Mach platform. The new Rhapsody OS strategy was relatively simple; it retained most of OpenStep's existing object libraries under the name "Yellow Box", ported the existing GUI in OPENSTEP for Mach and made it look more Mac-like, ported several major APIs from the ...
Menu bar of Mozilla Firefox, showing a submenu. A menu bar is a graphical control element which contains drop-down menus.. The menu bar's purpose is to supply a common housing for window- or application-specific menus which provide access to such functions as opening files, interacting with an application, or displaying help documentation or manuals.
1.4.1 October 2, 2001 Mac OS X v10.1 (code-named "Puma") Performance improvements to "boot time, real-time threads, thread management, cache flushing, and preemption handling" Support for SMB network file system; Wget replaced with cURL. [27] 5.1 November 12, 2001 Mac OS X v10.1.1 Change in numbering scheme to match the Mac OS X build numbering ...
The Apple Menu in macOS Ventura. The Apple menu is a drop-down menu that is on the left side of the menu bar in the classic Mac OS, macOS and A/UX operating systems.The Apple menu's role has changed throughout the history of Apple Inc.'s operating systems, but the menu has always featured a version of the Apple logo.
With it enabled, root privileges are no longer able to change system files and folders, including their permissions. Permissions repairs are instead performed automatically upon system installs and updates. [4] To that end, Disk Utility as well as the corresponding diskutil command-line utility lost the ability to repair permissions. [5]
Dashboard uses a variety of graphical effects for displaying, opening, and using widgets. For instance, a 3-D flip effect is used to simulate the widget flipping around; by clicking on a small i icon in the right bottom corner, the user can change the preferences on the reverse side; other effects include crossfading and scaling from icon to body (when opening widgets), a "spin-cycle effect ...
Some interface features of macOS are inherited from NeXTSTEP (such as the Dock, the automatic wait cursor, or double-buffered windows giving a solid appearance and flicker-free window redraws), while others are inherited from the old Mac OS operating system (the single system-wide menu-bar). Mac OS X 10.3 introduced features to improve ...