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Apple Mail: The Early Years
The mail client we know and love has a long history. It was written from scratch for NeXTSTEP, the operating system created by NeXT Inc, a company Steve Jobs founded in 1985 and which was bought up by...
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The people who built Apple Mail?
Buried deep in Mail.app‘s Resources folder is a file called senders.tiff. If you view it in Preview, you will be greeted by pictures of nine people (well, eight people and an insect). I don’t know for...
View ArticleTwo Top Fives: Hawk Wings 2005 in review
No doubt the Internet will be soggy with self-indulgent nostalgia today. Here’s my contribution. Hawk Wings spluttered into life at the end of July this year as a way to learn about blogging and as a...
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OPENSTEP: The Prehistory of Mail.app plugins
Once upon a time, Mail.app was the email application for an operating system known as NeXTSTEP. (For more on this, see the earlier Hawk Wings post, “Apple Mail: The Early Years“). Then NeXTSTEP became...
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Steve Jobs shows off NeXTSTEP, NeXTMail
Someone has unearthed a video on YouTube of Steve Jobs demonstrating NeXTSTEP way back in 1992. The video is long (35 minutes) but begins with Steve talking up how NeXTSTEP has “much, much better...
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