Macworld Designer Marcin Wichary has posted a comprehensive and detailed look at the design of the Mac operating system settings interface. In Frame of preference, Wichary examines the design details ...

MacPaint was a painting software that came standard with the Macintosh released by Apple in 1984, and was an innovative software that showed the prototype of a graphical user interface (GUI) such ...

Anyone who creates or edits pictures on computers uses tools that follow in the footsteps of an earlier Bill Atkinson app: he wrote MacPaint. Between it and his earlier version, LisaSketch, this ...

Atkinson eventually switched to the Macintosh team because he was dissatisfied with the office orientation of the Lisa project. Here he programmed the MacPaint painting software, for which he ...

Atkinson also wrote MacPaint, the forerunner of all graphics programs, including Photoshop. If you do anything with making or editing images on a computer, you owe him a debt of gratitude.

He also created MacPaint, one of the first graphics applications for personal computers, which introduced the concept of a "tool palette" and allowed users to create and manipulate images on the ...

Bill Atkinson, visionary behind Apple's Lisa and Macintosh, dies at 74. His innovations, including QuickDraw and MacPaint, revolutionised personal computing.

Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard. Wired and Daring ...

The source code for AlexNet – the neural network developed at the University of Toronto that kickstarted today’s artificial intelligence boom and led to a Nobel Prize – will be preserved by the ...