The real reason I bought a Mac

[skyring]

Apart from it being so incredibly cool, that is.

I was playing around with iWeb and happened to see that Apple hosts web sites that are one-click publishable from iWeb, along with some groovy widgets and stuff.

I happen to have a domain name, which I've owned for four years without doing much. So I've been putting together a site. Nothing much, and nothing that any friend of mine hasn't already seen.

But it looks so good!

More later, when I work out how to attach my domain name to the .Mac site. Well, I know how, and in fact I've already done the .Mac bit. It's just a matter of beating my domain name provider over the head with a ragged credit card until they do their bit.

Comments

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

Make frequent backups or have Time Machine on if you use iWeb. My daughter did a school project with iWeb. A known-bug in it caused it to corrupt her domain file irrecoverably and she lost weeks of work that she then had to recreate. That single monolithic file has the whole site in it.

[futurecatnz.livejournal.com]

That's what I don't like about Mac stuff. It may be more reliable than Windoze normally, but when it does break, it REALLY breaks, and there's nothing your ordinary garden-variety geek can do about it. At least when my PC breaks, I know which bits to kick to get it going again. When I used a Mac, I was helpless. And from what I've heard, this "you won't need to fix it, so we're making it so you can't even try" philosophy has extended to everything with "i" in front of it.

Plus of course, all that i-stuff is trendy, and I don't do trendy :-)

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FutureCat, proud owner of a totally untrendy non-ipod mp3 player, non-iphone phone, non-iweb web site...

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

Actually, I much prefer the Mac environment. Under the hood, OS X is just UNIX, and I've worked with UNIX my whole career. The iWeb disaster was mainly a corruption of the monolithic XML file. It was still possible to recover some of the attachments (pictures, etc.) and with enough effort it may have even been possible to recover the text, though embedded in all the XML tags it was hard to find.

I find Windows much more unreliable and mysterious. I think though it's just a matter of what you're more accustomed to. There are more Windows experts than Mac experts around, though perhaps that's partially because your ordinary Windows user ends up being forced to become an expert as they deal with problem after problem, with constant reboot, reinstall, retry cycles, whereas Macs tend to require less maintenance so problems are the exception, not the norm. :-)

[allysther.livejournal.com]

You are about to inspire me to purchase iLife, aren't you? I have managed to resist for a full year. My resistance started to go when Zanla bought his MBP, and now you are about to show me all of the lovely things I could be doing. Sigh...,

[semioticghosts.livejournal.com]

my new iMac gets delivered tomorrow...wheeeee! :) looking forward to iWeb now.