Everything about Label (macOS)
In Apple's Macintosh operating systems, labels are a type of seven distinct colored and named parameters of metadata that can be attributed to items in the filesystem. Labels were introduced in Macintosh System 7, released in 1991, and they were an improvement of the ability to colorize items in earlier versions of the Finder. Labels remained a feature of the Macintosh operating system through the end of Mac OS 9 in late 2001, but they were omitted from Mac OS X versions 10.0 to 10.2, before being reintroduced in version 10.3 in 2003, though not without criticism. During the short time period when Mac OS X lacked labels, third-party software replicated the feature. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Label (macOS)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: an open-label, multicentre, controlled, cluster-randomised crossover implementation studyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Discovering Computers 2018The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Finder (software)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Aqua (user interface)A closely related topic
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Discovering Computers 2018Misty E. Vermaat, Susan Sebok · 2017
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