Month: February 2017

Bill Atkinson

Jovan Stosic February 23, 2017

Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.

Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and, later, one of the first thirty members of the original Apple Macintosh development team,[1] and was the creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, which fulfilled the vision of using the computer as a creative tool. He also designed and implemented QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Lisa and Macintosh used for graphics. QuickDraw’s performance was essential for the success of the Macintosh GUI. He also was one of the main designers of the Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces. Atkinson also conceived, designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. HyperCard put the power of computer programming and database design into the hands of nonprogrammers. In 1994, Atkinson received the EFF Pioneer Award for his contributions.

Source: Bill Atkinson – Wikipedia

Bill Atkinson was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Byte (magazine)

Jovan Stosic February 23, 2017

Byte magazine was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.[1] Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user’s perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of “small computers and software”, and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing.

Source: Byte (magazine) – Wikipedia

Byte (magazine) was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Andy Hertzfeld

Jovan Stosic February 23, 2017

Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American computer scientist and inventor who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open source software

Source: Andy Hertzfeld – Wikipedia

Andy Hertzfeld was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic

Geeqie

Jovan Stosic February 23, 2017

Geeqie is a free software image viewer and image organiser program for Unix-like operating systems, which includes Linux-based systems and Apple’s OS X. It was first released in March 2010, having been created as a fork of GQview, which appeared to have ceased development. It uses the GTK+ toolkit. In September 2015, development was moved from SourceForge to GitHub.[1]

Source: Geeqie – Wikipedia

Geeqie was last modified: September 25th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic