Everything about MacOS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MacOSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Accurate and efficient stone volume measurement on macOS: a guide to free software solutions using HorosInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Mac hacker's handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) for macOSCited 1,658 times
5. Go sideways: MacOS version historyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Mac OS X Snow LeopardA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) for macOS

  Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura, Sudhir Kumar · 2020 · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1,658 citations

• TNT version 1.6, with a graphical interface for MacOS and Linux, including new routines in parallel

  Pablo A. Goloboff, Martín E. Morales · 2023 · Cladistics · 567 citations

• Catalysis in Capillaries by Pd Thin Films Using Microwave‐Assisted Continuous‐Flow Organic Synthesis (MACOS)

  Gjergji Shore, Sylvie Morin, Michael G. Organ · 2006 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 165 citations

• MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems

  Glen Stecher, Michael Suleski, Qiqing Tao · 2025 · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 143 citations

• Propargyl Amine Synthesis Catalysed by Gold and Copper Thin Films by Using Microwave‐Assisted Continuous‐Flow Organic Synthesis (MACOS)

  Gjergji Shore, Woo‐Jin Yoo, Chao‐Jun Li · 2009 · Chemistry – A European Journal · 114 citations

• Pd PEPPSI‐IPr‐Mediated Reactions in Metal‐Coated Capillaries Under MACOS: The Synthesis of Indoles by Sequential Aryl Amination/ Heck Coupling

  Gjergji Shore, Sylvie Morin, Debasis Mallik · 2008 · Chemistry – A European Journal · 98 citations

• Catalysis in Capillaries by Pd Thin Films Using Microwave‐Assisted Continuous‐Flow Organic Synthesis (MACOS)

  Gjergji Shore, Sylvie Morin, Michael G. Organ · 2006 · Angewandte Chemie · 69 citations

• Scaling Out by Microwave‐Assisted, Continuous Flow Organic Synthesis (MACOS): Multi‐Gram Synthesis of Bromo‐ and Fluoro‐benzofused Sultams Benzthiaoxazepine‐1,1‐dioxides

  Farman Ullah, Thiwanka Samarakoon, Alan Rolfe · 2010 · Chemistry – A European Journal · 65 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Accurate and efficient stone volume measurement on macOS: a guide to free software solutions using Horos

  Lazaros Tzelves, Michael Lardas, Bhaskar Somani · 2025 · Therapeutic Advances in Urology · 6 citations

• Discovering spoliation of evidence through identifying traces on deleted files in macOS

  Jihun Joun, Sangjin Lee, Jungheum Park · 2023 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 4 citations

• STRyper: A macOS application for microsatellite genotyping and chromatogram management

  Jean Peccoud · 2025 · PLOS ONE · 3 citations

• KextFuzz: A Practical Fuzzer for macOS Kernel EXTensions on Apple Silicon

  Tingting Yin, Zicong Gao, Zhenghang Xiao · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 3 citations

• cdem: A macOS program for discrete element modeling of tectonic structures

  Nestor Cardozo, Stuart Hardy · 2023 · Geosphere · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Mac hacker's handbookMiller, Charles, Dino Dai Zovi · 2009
• Mac OS X unleashedRay, John, John Ray · 2001
• Unix for MacSandra Henry-Stocker, Kynn Bartlett · 2003
• Mac OS XUli Ries · 2010
• My iMacAndrew Gore, Jill Baird · 1999
• C-Programmierung auf dem MacDetlef Schulz · 2011
• Start mit dem MacCaroline Butz · 2010
• Mac OS X 10.5 - LeopardGion Andrea Barandun · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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