Lose yourself in an astoundingly beautiful and absorbing history of macOS settings

The simple Settings or Control Panel of the Mac has been lovingly documented in a superbly detailed and visual guide to design — and through it, also the history of Apple itself.A Mac Portable's Finder, in emulation — image credit: Marcin Wichary, Mihai ParparitaThis is what the web is for. As absorbing as reading about, say, the history of the Mac is, a new site uses the web to present an utterly exquisite account of an issue you never knew you would care so much about.Marcin Wichary, author of 'Shift Happens,' the equally beautiful book about keyboards, and Infinite Mac's Mihai Parparita, have created 'Frame of Preference'. Subtitled 'A history of Mac settings, 1984-2004.' It's a website detailing — really, really detailing — just about every pixel of what was the Mac's Control Panel and is now better known as Settings. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums