[HN Gopher] Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolu...
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Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution
Author : whalesalad
Score : 175 points
Date : 2020-03-24 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| aquova wrote:
| OS X 10.7 is still my favorite default wallpaper. I was surprised
| to see the author didn't care for it. Given the minimal
| descriptions for 10.10+, I take it they care more for the
| abstract blue backgrounds of the earlier releases than for
| mountains as well.
| BossingAround wrote:
| It's kind of a shame that the thumbnails are 1400x1050. I mean,
| it's a thumbnail, ~500p would be absolutely fine (probably even
| less), and the load times would have been much better.
| yardie wrote:
| One of the things I hated about clean installing OSX was the
| previous wallpapers and user avatars weren't kept in the
| installer. If you were lucky enough to upgrade the OS without
| errors through each major release you got to hang onto some very
| important bits of the OS, like Quicktime 7, iPhoto, iMovie. Once
| you upgraded the hardware, if you didn't have the foresight to
| backup the application and the app support library folder, you
| were in for a letdown.
| fossuser wrote:
| It's the same with iOS too - I've kept the milky way over a
| snowy mountain top since whatever version it was released
| because if you change it you lose it (well you have to search
| around and get it back from the internet).
| machello13 wrote:
| Same! That's such a great iPad wallpaper. I've found copies
| of it online but they all seem to be lower quality than the
| one included with the OS.
| saagarjha wrote:
| If you _really_ want it, you can pull it from the IPSW...
| dwighttk wrote:
| I just noticed quicktime 7 was deprecated in Catalina
| ramenmeal wrote:
| I miss snow leopard & spaces. Never really figured out how to be
| productive w/ Mission Control and full screen apps.
| dmix wrote:
| > Never really figured out how to be productive w/ Mission
| Control and full screen apps
|
| Has anyone? I'd love to see the stats on this. One of those
| things that looks prettier than it is useful.
| SwiftyBug wrote:
| To me the full screen feature is really useful. I work with
| my notebook in a stand right by the side of an external
| display. On the notebook I keep everything in full screen
| mode except for the VS Code windows, which stay in the other
| monitor. When I need to switch from browser to Slack, Spark
| (email client) or Spotify, I just have to swipe with two
| fingers on my Magic Mouse or with four fingers in MacBook's
| Magic Trackapd.
| d2wa wrote:
| Whatever happen to copyright ... .
| chipotle_coyote wrote:
| As someone who is probably more supportive of intellectual
| property rights and copyright in particular than the median HN
| user, "how dare someone nostalgically resize and make available
| a handful of background wallpapers that were distributed with
| obsolete versions of an operating system" strikes me as one of
| the tiniest, most pedantic hills to die on I can imagine.
| grecy wrote:
| I take it you've never paid for food and rent from the income
| from your photographs.
|
| I don't know the copyright story of the photos included with
| the macOS releases, but I don't think it's wrong for the
| parent comment to at least ask the question.
| chipotle_coyote wrote:
| I appreciate you getting huffy at me in the ostensible
| defense of photographers and art creators (seriously, I
| do), but the only way these creators could _possibly_ be
| losing potential income from this site is if retained the
| rights to sell these images digitally. I can 't swear under
| oath that they didn't, but under this particular
| circumstance, that would be awfully unusual. (It would be
| almost unheard of these works to have been licensed to
| Apple on a per-unit royalty basis rather than a flat fee,
| but in either case the creator would have made all the
| money they ever would have from Apple by now anyway. And,
| it's quite likely these were done either under a work-for-
| hire contract, in which Apple retained all the rights, or
| -- like "Bliss," the iconic green hill/blue sky image in
| Windows 95 -- they bought _all_ the rights to the image for
| a flat fee.)
| grecy wrote:
| The point isn't that the photographers don't have rights
| to these particular photos.
|
| The point is you criticize a person for even asking the
| question.
|
| Not everyone has the same insight into the licensing and
| legal ramifications of images being distributed with
| OSes, and there's never a reason to be condescending and
| demeaning to someone asking a simple question.
|
| You could have chosen to educate them in a helpful and
| friendly way, but you didn't.
| rconti wrote:
| It's also worth noting that OS X has been free as in beer
| since at least 10.9, and it looks like 10.1 was also free
| if you had 10.0.
|
| For all intents and purposes, these wallpapers are free
| to the end user. Additionally, resold versions of the OS
| also have a cost approaching 0. Finally, the marketplace
| for resold wallpapers that were effectively free to the
| end user is nonexistent. Though there may still be
| interesting legal questions here, as you point out, the
| creators of the wallpapers almost certainly retain no
| rights anyway.
| tekknolagi wrote:
| Are there similar libraries for the non-default but also-included
| wallpapers? I think I liked some of the alternative El Capitan
| wallpapers more than the default.
| mobilio wrote:
| 10.6 is best IMHO
| mattl wrote:
| No love for Mac OS X Server 1.0? I have my phone using the same
| background as Rhapsody DR2.
| steviedotboston wrote:
| you must be stepwise
| mattl wrote:
| Ha, I am. I feel like OPENSTEP and Rhapsody are ignored these
| days, much in the same way people think every GeoCities
| website was in Comic Sans.
| apearson wrote:
| 10.0 to 10.4 wallpapers have always looked the best IMO. Even
| more so today in 5k.
| flyrain wrote:
| Looks boring to me though. I like the galaxy ones better.
| jkrupp wrote:
| If you like the galaxy photos, the original photographer is
| Rob Gendler: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| Excellent. Thanks for linking this
| wintorez wrote:
| Is there a similar site for all the iPhone/iOS wallpapers?
| harrylepotter wrote:
| what about the tiles for OS8 and OS9?
| duskwuff wrote:
| There's a pretty decent collection of pre-OS X wallpapers here:
|
| https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6c8veze05y4dou8/AAABpBWhiGAtqKzOc...
| mehrdadn wrote:
| Why is "Mac OS X" crossed out with "macOS" written in place of
| it? Is the former wrong somehow?
| apearson wrote:
| How would you write out a rebranding like Mac OS X to macOS
| joombaga wrote:
| I'd go with one of these:
|
| * macOS (nee Mac OS X)
|
| * macos (formerly Mac OS X)
| IggleSniggle wrote:
| Ah yes, the classic game:
|
| - "macos!"
|
| - "polos!"
| devbat8712 wrote:
| Officially it's macOS now.
| mehrdadn wrote:
| Oh interesting, I didn't realize. Thanks!
| sdegutis wrote:
| Mac OS, then Mac OS X, then OS X, and now macOS. Probably
| Mac OS again some time soon to go full circle.
| IggleSniggle wrote:
| Yeah, jeez, what's NeXT?
| verify_sirrah wrote:
| macOS matches watchOS, tvOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Unless
| Apple decides to rename all their products, I don't see
| macOS changing.
| waterhouse wrote:
| I personally just say Mac OS. If there were some device
| called the Blarg, with an operating system built to run
| just on the Blarg, then that operating system would be
| most naturally called Blarg OS; I suspect the vast
| majority of people would call it that if no name were
| supplied.
| Traster wrote:
| Well then say that MacOS is 3 pixels slimmer than Mac OS
| but it just doesn't have the same feel and I'm constanly
| get crumbs stuck between the c and the O.
| whalesalad wrote:
| Sorta. The old name still works, when referring to a proper old
| release. Going forward the OS family is referred to as macOS.
| mehrdadn wrote:
| I see, thanks!
| tobr wrote:
| Oh, these are great. I just wish they would have included Quantum
| Foam, which was very similar to the Cheetah and Puma one, but in
| graphite gray and with more contrast in the highlights. I think
| it was the default in Mac OS 9.
|
| It's been very hard to find in decent resolution and quality.
| I've tried to use various upscaling tools, I've tried to do it
| manually (reconstructing it with vectors), but I've never been
| quite happy with the result.
| handedness wrote:
| Agreed. Sage Foam is another all-time favorite.
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