Mount Olympus Consulting

07/09/2025

In July of 1997, five months after Apple bought NeXT and brought him back into the fold, Steve Jobs became Apple's de facto interim CEO, kicking off the most successful comeback by an executive in the history of American business.

06/15/2025

Long live HyperCard, my first foray into computer programming on the Mac

We are saddened by the passing of Bill Atkinson, a software developer whose pioneering work helped shape the personal computing revolution.

Atkinson joined Apple Computer in 1978 as the company’s 51st employee and played a pivotal role in defining the look and feel of modern computing. He was a key designer of QuickDraw, the graphics engine behind the original Macintosh, and the creator of MacPaint, one of the first programs to show what a graphical user interface could do. He also conceived and built HyperCard, an early hypermedia tool that inspired a generation of software creators.

His innovations include fundamental elements still used today, like the menu bar, double click, selection lasso, and the famous “marching ants” animation. He later cofounded General Magic and pursued his passion for nature photography.

Atkinson’s legacy will continue to live on in the tools, interfaces, and ideas that made computers more human-centered and creative.

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06/07/2025

The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

01/28/2024

PSA:

Apple wants you to install iOS 17.3 immediately due to 16 flaws that need to be patched ASAP.

11/23/2023

PSA:

A powerful new malware launched in early 2023 called Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) targets Apple users and has become a growing threat....

06/09/2023

The OpenCore patcher will help older Macs run macOS Ventura and will eventually the upcoming macOS Sonoma

The upcoming macOS Sonoma from Apple will have a different range of supported Macs compared to macOS Ventura, but the OpenCore Legacy Patcher team is working now to bring the newer OS to older Macs.

05/30/2023

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/30/apples-lisa-entombment-was-just-the-beginning-shows-new-documentary

Digging up the story about thousands of buried, unsold Lisa computers led to an interesting story about sabotage, Steve Jobs, and more.

03/22/2022

Perfect-looking pop-up phishing scam

03/17/2022

Multiple ASUS router models are vulnerable to the Russia-linked Cyclops Blink malware threat, causing the vendor to publish an advisory with mitigations for the security risk.

02/23/2022

This is the best tool to safely clean your AirPods or AirPods Pro https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/22/this-is-the-best-tool-to-safely-clean-your-airpods-or-airpods-pro?utm_source=sendible&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=RSS

02/18/2022

Mozilla is warning users that when Firefox — and Google's Chrome — reach version 100, major websites may no longer identify them properly, and not work properly as a result.