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Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here.
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- Wedding Vows is an anthology of 14 short snippets portraying the love story of Lawrence and Rebecca, two childhood sweethearts who grew up together and got married. It shows their evolving relationship from childhood until old age, and the special moments that bind them together. A tribute to marriage and idealised love with a vintage Americana.
- This book is broken up into sections, (1) an introduction, (2) safekeeping spells, (3) healing spells and potions, (4) spells against enemies, (5) counter-spells, (6) luck and fortune spells, (6) love and matchmaking spells, (7) weather and earth spells, (8) spells to cast on animals, (9) power spells, (10) communing with the dead, (11) list of.
While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays.
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10.0 Cheetah & 10.1 Puma
The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface.
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10.2 Jaguar
Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things. In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets.
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10.3 Panther
While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image.
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10.4 Tiger
Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X. While that may or may not be true, it is my favorite Aqua-inspired wallpaper.
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10.5 Leopard
Complete with a revised, unified user interface and shiny new Dock, 10.5 broke the Aqua mold. As such, Leopard was the first version of OS X to break from the Aqua-themed wallpaper. It ushered in the “space era” of OS X wallpapers, which was used heavily in the new Time Machine interface as well.
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10.6 Snow Leopard
The “no new features” mantra for Snow Leopard didn’t ban a new wallpaper, thankfully. This starscape is still one of my favorites.
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10.6 Snow Leopard Server
The server version of Snow Leopard came with its own unique wallpaper that is a real treat:
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10.7 Lion
Lion kept up the space theme, this time showing off the Andromeda galaxy. The space nerd in me likes the idea, but the execution of this one leaves dead-last on my list of favorites.
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10.8 Mountain Lion
Just like Snow Leopard before it, with Mountain Lion, Apple opted to clean up and revise the existing theme as opposed to changing directions for what would be a less-impactful release of OS X.
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10.9 Mavericks
Mavericks marked the beginning of Apple’s “California location” naming scheme for Mac releases. The wave depicted looks as intimidating as the ones in the famous surfing location.
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10.10 Yosemite
Yosemite brought another UI refresh to the Mac, making things flatter and more modern. The wallpaper ushered in a new era based on … well … mountains.
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10.11 El Capitan
Named after a breathtaking spot in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan was a clean-up year after 10.10.
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10.12 Sierra
More mountains.
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10.13 High Sierra
Even more mountains.
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10.14 Mojave
No more mountains! Mojave brought a new system-wide Dark Mode, and the OS shipped with two versions of its default wallpaper to match. Users could even have macOS slowly fade between the two background images over the course of the day.
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10.15 Catalina
macOS Catalina brought big changes to the Mac, including the ability to run iPad apps natively, opening the platform up to a much larger number of developers than ever before. Catalina shipped with multiple variants of its default wallpaper, and the ability to shift between them as time progresses throughout the day:
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macOS Big Sur
This version of macOS is such a big deal, Apple changed the version number to 11.0. It will be the OS that brings support for Apple Silicon-powered Macs, and features a brand new design.
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At a Glance
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One of the most underused features of iTunes, in my experience, is that you can rate each track on a scale of one to five stars. Ratings are helpful on their own for finding your favorites, but they’re also immensely useful for creating smart playlists in iTunes. But rating tracks is a bit of a hassle: You’ve got to stop what you’re doing, switch to iTunes, find the currently playing track, and then click the desired rating.
A number of third-party utilities aim to make it easier, or at least more convenient, to rate tracks, and my favorite remains Potion Factory’s $1 I Love Stars (Mac App Store link). I first reviewed I Love Stars back in 2009, but the utility has since gained some useful features and is now offered through the Mac App Store.
I Love Stars puts iTunes’ rating scale right in your menu bar. If a track already has a rating, you see that rating without having to switch to iTunes. I Love Stars also supports iTunes’ album ratings; if you’ve rated an album, the album rating is displayed for each track in the album that doesn’t have an individual track rating.
If a track is unrated, or if you decide to revise your original rating, you simply click the appropriate star or—a nice touch—move your cursor over the scale and use your scroll wheel or scroll gesture. It’s that simple. (If you’ve rated an album in iTunes, I Love Stars displays the album rating, as star outlines rather than solid stars, for all unrated tracks on that album.)
Perhaps my favorite feature is the option to remind you to rate each song. Whenever iTunes gets about two-thirds of the way through an unrated song, I Love Stars can flash its menu-bar scale, play an alert sound, or both, jarring you out of your music-listening stupor to give the track a quick rating. And if you find iTunes’ five levels of rating too limiting, I Love Stars lets you give tracks half-star ratings: 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, or 4.5.
One new feature I find especially useful—if you’ve ever seen my menu bar, you’ll understand why—is that I Love Stars now forces itself to the left-most end of your menu-extras area, making it easier to quickly locate among the various icons. Wherever the menu is located, you can right-click (Control-click) it to view the currently playing track’s name and artist and to access the program’s preferences. (I’m still hoping this display will eventually include the album name, as well.)
Finally, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to whole-star ratings (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), as well shortcuts for increasing or decreasing the rating in full- or half-star increments.
There are a number of full-featured “iTunes controller” programs that include track-rating options, including the stellar CoverSutra. But for simply rating tracks, I’ve found no better solution than I Love Stars. I actually use it with CoverSutra.
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