Bill atkinson Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Ars looks at 25 years of HyperCard

by Steven Sande (May 31st, 2012)

Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would soon be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for non-programmers to link "cards" of information with simple scripts and a variety of common Mac user ...

Bill Atkinson part of the Google+ team (Updated: Apparently not)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 21st, 2011)

Update: The San Jose Mercury News got this one wrong and the info has been redacted in their original story. While Mr. Atkinson is a user, he's not a part of Google's team. Thanks to everyone who brought this to our attention and Mike Swift for the correction. Bill Atkinson, the developer ...

TUAW review and giveaway: Bill Atkinson PhotoCard for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Feb 18th, 2010)

When it comes to famous names in the Apple pantheon, Bill Atkinson ranks very high in the list. The brains behind MacPaint, HyperCard, the Mac OS menu bar, and a host of other innovative software applications has been a professional nature photographer since 1996, but now he's melded his ...

Found Footage: The Story of Macintosh

by Steven Sande (Jan 18th, 2010)

Denver-area Mac consultant Mike Kimble is no stranger to Apple; he worked at an Apple reseller prior to the introduction of the Mac in 1984, and he's been involved with Macs and other Apple products ever since. Mike recently found several old Apple tapes that were sent to his business back around ...