★ AppZapper 3000

Back in the mid-2000s there was a golden era of exuberantly designed Mac apps. Paul Kafasis coined it “ The Delicious Generation ”, a perfect name. The delicious was both a reference to Wil Shipley and Mike Matas’s Delicious Library — a personal media library management app that made something that sounds really boring look super fun — and a perfect description of the aesthetic. It clearly harks back to Steve Jobs’s description of the Aqua user interface in 2000: “One of the design goals was whe