Wedding Vows is an anthology of 14 short snippets portraying the love story of Lawrence and Rebecca, two childhood sweethearts who grew up together and got married. It shows their evolving relationship from childhood until old age, and the special moments that bind them together. A tribute to marriage and idealised love with a vintage Americana. A number of third-party utilities aim to make it easier, or at least more convenient, to rate tracks, and my favorite remains Potion Factory’s $1 I Love Stars (Mac App Store link).

Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here.

While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays.

If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release of OS X, click here.

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10.0 Cheetah & 10.1 Puma

The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface.

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10.2 Jaguar

Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things. In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets.

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10.3 Panther

While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image.

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10.4 Tiger

Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X. While that may or may not be true, it is my favorite Aqua-inspired wallpaper.

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10.5 Leopard

Complete with a revised, unified user interface and shiny new Dock, 10.5 broke the Aqua mold. As such, Leopard was the first version of OS X to break from the Aqua-themed wallpaper. It ushered in the “space era” of OS X wallpapers, which was used heavily in the new Time Machine interface as well.

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10.6 Snow Leopard

The “no new features” mantra for Snow Leopard didn’t ban a new wallpaper, thankfully. This starscape is still one of my favorites.

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10.6 Snow Leopard Server

The server version of Snow Leopard came with its own unique wallpaper that is a real treat:

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10.7 Lion

Lion kept up the space theme, this time showing off the Andromeda galaxy. The space nerd in me likes the idea, but the execution of this one leaves dead-last on my list of favorites.

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10.8 Mountain Lion

Just like Snow Leopard before it, with Mountain Lion, Apple opted to clean up and revise the existing theme as opposed to changing directions for what would be a less-impactful release of OS X.

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10.9 Mavericks

Mavericks marked the beginning of Apple’s “California location” naming scheme for Mac releases. The wave depicted looks as intimidating as the ones in the famous surfing location.

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10.10 Yosemite

Yosemite brought another UI refresh to the Mac, making things flatter and more modern. The wallpaper ushered in a new era based on … well … mountains.

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10.11 El Capitan

Named after a breathtaking spot in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan was a clean-up year after 10.10.

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10.12 Sierra

More mountains.

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10.13 High Sierra

Even more mountains.

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10.14 Mojave

No more mountains! Mojave brought a new system-wide Dark Mode, and the OS shipped with two versions of its default wallpaper to match. Users could even have macOS slowly fade between the two background images over the course of the day.

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10.15 Catalina

macOS Catalina brought big changes to the Mac, including the ability to run iPad apps natively, opening the platform up to a much larger number of developers than ever before. Catalina shipped with multiple variants of its default wallpaper, and the ability to shift between them as time progresses throughout the day:

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macOS Big Sur

This version of macOS is such a big deal, Apple changed the version number to 11.0. It will be the OS that brings support for Apple Silicon-powered Macs, and features a brand new design.

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Saturday, 9 June 2007

Ext. Morning, Tuesday 5 June 2007. 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino.

A cab pulls in front a building. Brushed Metal exits the cab, stands tall, and walks to the door. He waves a badge at the door’s identification sensor. A red light flashes.

He tries the door. It’s locked. He rubs the badge directly against the sensor. Red again.

Brushed Metal: What the fuck?

He shakes the door again, hard. It is, of course, still locked. He stands at the door, thinking. He looks at the badge in his hand. The badge is old and well-worn.

A sparkling dark gray Mercedes-Benz S600 pulls in front of the building. From the back seat, the Unnamed Dark Gray Interface Theme From iLife ’06 opens the door and gets out. Two very attractive young women remain in the back seat. Smiles all around.

Dark Gray: I’ll see you ladies at dinner.

The young women laugh and blow him kisses. The car pulls away. The Unnamed Theme turns to the door and recognizes Brushed Metal.

Dark Gray: Hey! Wow. Brushed Metal. It is great to finally meet you.

Brushed Metal: —

Dark Gray: I was huge fan of yours when I was a kid. You were my idol. Big poster on my bedroom wall of you in the original iTunes on Mac OS 9.

Brushed Theme: (insincere) Thanks.

Dark Gray: It’s great that you’re here to see this. It means a lot to me. It’s like the passing of the torch.

Brushed Metal: What the fuck are you talking about?

Dark Gray: (exultant) My gig for the system UI theme in Leopard.

Brushed Metal: No no no.

Dark Gray: Shit, you didn’t know?

Brushed Metal: The whole system?

Dark Gray: Yeah man, everywhere. All the window chrome is mine. I just assumed you knew, man.

Brushed Metal: They called me here…

Dark Gray: Wait until you see it upstairs. The windows switching to my chrome? The least remarkable change in the UI. The least!

Pause.

Brushed Metal: I could do scrollbar sliders, you know. Those blue ones from Aqua are so gay.

Dark Gray: Metal scrollbar sliders?

Brushed Metal: Think about it. It’d be like the metal slider buttons on the iPod Shuffle. Nothing says “slide me” like Brushed Metal.

Dark Gray: Yeah… you know, this stuff’s sort of been set.

Brushed Metal: Or all the buttons. “Click me, I’m metal.” Yes, yes. Imagine this: Close/minimize/zoom — green/yellow/red tinted Brushed Metal against your smooth background. Beautiful!

Dark Gray: That’s certainly an idea.

The door opens from the inside. A woman holding a clipboard holds the door open. A large Security Agent, black pants, black t-shirt — sort of a Henry Rollins type — steps out.

Security Agent: (to Brushed Metal) You were supposed to be here two hours ago.

Brushed Metal: Fuck you.

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Security Agent: The iPhone team is waiting to see you.

Brushed Metal: Really.

Security Agent: Yes.

Brushed Metal brightens.

Brushed Metal: It’s about time. Cutting it close to the deadline, as always, eh?

Dark Gray: Dude, excellent. Congrats! (Heads into the buiding with woman.)

Brushed Metal: Yeah. Good luck, kid.

Woman With Clipboard: You look great. Love how you’ve tweaked those corners.

Dark Gray: Thanks!

The door closes.

Brushed Metal: Fucking fruitcake. (Turns to security agent) So where do I go?

Security Agent: Different building. I’ll take you there.

Int. Elevator — Minutes later.

Brushed Metal: The basement?

Security Agent: Yes.

Brushed Metal: Top secret stuff, huh?

Security Agent: Yes.

The elevator opens. The hallway is empty.

Brushed Metal:Looks like a basement. Dark down here.

Security Agent: This way.

They start walking down the hall. Brushed Metal takes a battered Razr cell phone out of his pocket and glances at the display. The signal-strength meter shows zero bars.

They arrive at an unmarked steel door.

Brushed Metal: This isn’t about the iPhone, is it?

Security Agent: —

Brushed Metal: Oh, Jesus Christ. This is sick. Fucking sick.

The security agent waves a badge at the sensor next to the door. A green light flashes. The door unlocks with a loud CLANK.

Brushed Metal: Not in the face, OK? It’s all I’ve got.

Security Agent: You won’t feel a thing.