Year: 2004

Macintosh creator: ‘The Mac is now a mess’

Jef Raskin, one of the creators of the Macintosh, told The Guardian that the Mac does not hold the same simplicity as it once did. “Unfortunately, the Mac is now a mess,” Raskin said. “A third party manual (Pogue’s The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine.”

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Desktop pictures/icons weekly recap

Over the course of the past week, MacDesktops has posted 14 new desktop pictures, including: Christopher Reeve (Portraits), Evil eye (Animation), and Loch Evite from Tigh na Ba (Landscapes – Nature). Mandolux has issued two dual monitor desktop sets in celebration of the Boston Red Sox and Saint Louis Cardinals World Series match, while MacMonkies released four new icon sets and five new desktops.

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