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Jonic Linley said 6:33AM on 7-06-2005
Other: If a program requires an urgent security update or a major patch is released it'd be nice to know about that.
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Thomas said 7:54AM on 7-06-2005
I like what I've been seeing here already. Not sure what I'd change.
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Sam said 8:42AM on 7-06-2005
Way too much Mac software here. You should make a separate blog devoted to Apple news. Maybe call it, "The Unofficial Apple Weblog."
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Jonathan said 9:20AM on 7-06-2005
I think the site is great the way it is! Don't add too much by way of downloads and updates, there are already sites that do that. Stick to highlighting the most interesting picks. Also, I think that a clearer link to actually Downloading the app would be great.
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Pasha said 9:56AM on 7-06-2005
I agree with #2 a little bit. It seems that you are very biased towards Mac stuff. I like the blog so far though, but would like to see more windows oriented apps
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Myria said 11:57AM on 7-06-2005
Echoing Pasha, there's more than a hint of Mac fanboyism around here. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but for those who have no interest in Macs it gets real old, real fast. If this site wants to attract Windows, Mac, and Linux users you're either going to have to get an evangelist for each, or leave the Mac evangelizing and constant negative commentary on every other system somewhere else.
Since either tact is pretty unlikely, your best bet would be to just make this a Mac blog.
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Timmah said 2:14PM on 7-06-2005
I too, agree with some of the others. Too much mac crap on here.. no one cares about macs, only 5% of computer users have them (at least 80% of them don't even use their macs for much more than typing, coz they're not smart enough to figure it out).
/rant.
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sepa said 5:36PM on 7-06-2005
It would like to see if the programm is free or not.
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Thomas said 7:54PM on 7-06-2005
To much Mac crap? Never. That must be why I like it here.
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Adora said 8:19PM on 7-06-2005
Oh please. Stop being so closed-minded.
Although I do have to agree that the past week does seem to have been a wee bit tipped towards Macs more than I'd care for, I definitely don't want Apple posts to disappear completely.
My three main operating systems are Windows, BSD (mainly openbsd, but I've got dragonfly installed on a spare laptop to play with), and Debian. I don't have a Mac and I don't plan on getting one any time soon (due to hardware quirks such as not being able to close the lid of a laptop without it hibernating)...but I TOTALLY respect what they've accomplished with OS X.
Anyone else who thinks 'no one cares about macs' is a moron. And actually, most of the people I know with macs DO use them for mostly typing...at the command line interface. They're all sysadmins for over 10,000 users each who use macs because they're based on a BSD kernel.
Making the site Windows only would be the equivalent of going to a trade school
instead of a liberal arts university: sure, you get what you really Need, but you lose the perspective and discourse with users of other systems that creates more well-rounded and better informed opinions.
As such, I would like to see the site maintain a relatively fair balance between Windows, Mac, and the Unicees. And based on the current article counts (116/111/46), I'd say they're not terribly far off that mark.
:: Lisa
:: adora [at] techslut [.] net
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Stephen Searer said 3:07AM on 7-07-2005
I had an interesting conversation with an administrator at my university about the mac vs. windows conversation. He basically told me that the university would be all mac, and so would many other schools had apple not given the old heave-ho to Steve J. He [the administrator] gave the main reason for switching to windows computers was due to the lack of software for macs.
This coverage of surging mac software could very well show macs beginning (probably not the beginning anymore) to gain back their previously held position.
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Andrew Stewart said 6:24PM on 8-22-2005
links/reviews of new and exotic programs we normally would never have heard of sound good to me :-) And tips that you think would be handy for all the popular programs out there.
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