http://macgui.com/news/ Macintosh news, reviews, and opinion. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=308 http://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=308 Dog Cow
Thu, 16 May 2013 01:18:23 (GMT 0)
The App Store, first introduced in 2008, has reached a big milestone: the 50 billionth download. Apple had started a countdown to the 50 billion mark about two weeks ago. The winner of the contest will receive a $10,000 Apple gift card.

The App store took nearly 4 years to reach the 25 billion mark. Apple currently receives about 20 billion App downloads per year, or about 50 million every day.
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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:36:05 (GMT 0)
Mac GUI is now using the latest version of Roundcube webmail. This version brings with it a new look and feel. The old look is still available in the settings page.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please get in touch with me.
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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:49:38 (GMT 0)
This morning I updated all A2HQ.com sites using the WordPress blog to the latest edition, 3.5.1. In turn, I also updated four themes and one plugin to the latest versions.

The 3.5.x series adds several new features and fixes many bugs. For more information on what's new and changed, read here.

If anyone would like to have additional themes or plugins for his WordPress blog, please contact me, and I will be happy to add them.
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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:01:02 (GMT 0)
About 14 hours ago, midnight my time, I received an automated email stating that Mac GUI was about to exceed its bandwidth quota. Twelve hours ago, at 2 AM my time, Mac GUI exceeded its bandwidth quota and went offline.

The culprit? One of the Mac GUI sites that I host for free, http://basalgangster.macgui.com. It's a great site full of in-depth and fascinating articles about early Macintosh history, and I'm glad that I host it. One article was mentioned on reddit.com and in the span of just a few hours, over 9,000 visitors came to take a look.

Obviously, we're online now! I talked with my ISP to get an increase in our monthly bandwidth quota, so we shouldn't have too many more surprises like that for quite some time!
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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:46:57 (GMT 0)
Jhangle Village, Taiwan - Ohanaware Co., Ltd. today is thrilled to announce their latest photo enhancing application "Shine" for Mac OS X. Shine has been designed to enhance digital photos by using lighting effects such as Light Rays & Lens Flares, and enhancing the color of the photo by using gradient tints. It also features other enhancing effects such as "Sun", Dynamic Contrast, Highlight Glow & a brand new Light Fall Off (also known as vignette) effect.

About Shine:
Shine is a photo enhancing application that uses lighting effects such as Light Rays and Lens Flare, as well as color tinting and various other effects to alter a photo. With Shine, users can make photos look like they were taken in direct sunlight or without modern lenses.

Shine 1.0 is available today from Ohanaware's website. Shine is currently $9.99 USD (Before tax) per single user license, discounted for a limited time from $19.99. A free (watermarking) trial can be downloaded from the Ohanaware web site. Ohanaware are currently running a promotion, whereby a customer purchasing Shine can get 30% off selected Ohanaware apps.

Read more about Shine
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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:11:32 (GMT 0)
The data center that is responsible for serving all of Mac GUI's downloads, both the standard dserver files and the Vault collection, will be experiencing a planned power outage over the weekend for maintenance.

The main Mac GUI web site will still be available. Only the downloads will not be available.

The exact time of the power outage should be on Sunday, 10th March from 7 AM to 4 PM Central time.
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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:39:00 (GMT 0)
I have posted an RFD proposal to create a new Usenet newsgroup called comp.sys.mac.vintage for discussion of PPC and 68k Macintosh computers.

If you read Usenet, and would be interested in such a group, please head over to news.groups.proposals and make your comments on the RFD.

If created, this newsgroup will be carried on Mac GUI for discussion.

Thanks!
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Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:23:20 (GMT 0)
I am glad to announce that Mac GUI now supports additional account security using 2-Factor Authentication, sometimes also referred to as Secondary Authentication (the latter is what it's called here) using the Google Authenticator app for mobile devices.

Enabling this feature for your Mac GUI account will improve security by requiring a unique 6-digit token be entered upon every log in. The token changes with the passage of time and should only be known by you.

For more information, including instructions on how to enable this feature, visit this page.

For some background technical information, read this forum post.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:53:01 (GMT 0)
Here it is, nine years of the peanut butter and jelly site, Mac GUI!

Take a look back to the remotest antiquity, and see the original HTML files of Mac GUI.

What has happened in the past year? Well we've seen enhancements to the Usenet archive; a new search engine and better newsgroup subscriptions. A2HQ.com, the Apple II webhosting platform, was welcomed by several Apple II users. Oh, and I wrote a book!

Looking back at my to-do list from last year, it looks like I was successful in 3 out of the 5 items. Not too bad!

I also reached the goal of having 10,000 unique visitors in a month. That was achieved a few months ago in September. The upward trend of visitors is still with us; last month Mac GUI received over 12,000 unique visitors.

Last year, Mac GUI served 1 million page views, which is something that we've never done before. That's quite a mark.

One interesting change in traffic is that the Usenet archives have now consistently outranked the Downloads area in terms of popularity. Last year, there were 201,019 page views in Usenet, and only 188,252 page views for the Downloads. This change is probably due to the fact that more and more google searches are returning hits in the Usenet archive.

I think we can make it to 10 years, don't you?
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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:22:52 (GMT 0)
I still have a handful of new editions of my New Apple II User's Guide and I'll be releasing them slowly on to eBay.

The first one is auction-style and starts bidding at $12.

Take a look:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Apple-II-Users-Guid...012-/251224502389

Also, be sure to read the latest review of the book by Wade Clarke:
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Apple-Users-Guide...views/0615639879/
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