Mac Webmasters - introduce yourself! (part 2)

[Macguru]

Just a *bump* for this wonderful thread [webmasterworld.com] to go live again.

[timster]

Real Name: Tim Grant

-Current Job Title: Database Developer
-Mac user since: 1984
-Current Macs: flatpanel iMac (home), Titanium PB (work)
-Boasting: Finally over
-Favorite "new toys":PHP & MySQL.
-Modus operandi: Develop on OS X, deploy on RedHat.

-What I like about this board:
A lot of knowledgeable people with very little attitude, willing to answer any question to help the Mac community.

-What I'd like to see more of:
Discussion about actually using Macs as servers.

(For example, some folks post questions about configuring their Macs to other boards at this site, often getting pretty vague replies. I could be wrong, but I *think* they'd get better answers here.)

[aaronjf]

Macguru,

I have a stupid question. If we already introduced ourselves in the last thread, do you want us to do it again here?

[Macguru]

In order to prevent 'old' threads to sudentlly bump up with a new post, the system make them obsolete, after a while. It is impossible to make a new post in the first "introduction" thread again.

This "part 2" is to give new members, such as timster, a chance to say hello. But if you feel like making a second first impression, feel free to do so, aaronjf. :)

[covdon]

Hello All,

I am a Mac webmaster, and I wouldn't use a pc if you paid me!

[ytswy]

Name: Mike

Sex: depends on my girlfriend

Location: UK

Pets: Blue & White G3, probably moving over to a Pismo G3 PowerBook

Occupation: Selling refurbished Macs and Mac peripherals (ok a few PCs as well)

Religion: Apple, but fairly ecumenical

Secret Shame: My home machine is an XP flavoured maggot box

Dreams: G5, PowerBook G4

[trebormojo]

Had a Mac since I was 7, the Apple IIC.
I spent $300 on G3 two years ago and have made at least $20k with it. I just graduated with my BA, so a G5 is next on the list.

One thing many don't know: you can use PC parts just the same. I harvested an old PII for the hard drive just yesterday.

Macs rule, Windows drool. I don't know how people use those drab things!

[SulkyGirl]

Hi!

First name : Sarah

Location: Sunny Southern California
(which is too bad, since I prefer thunderstorms and snow)

Occupation : Er...webmistress, I guess. Still weird to say that, since it started as a hobby.

I Got my First Mac When I Was...Nine years old. 1987. Never looked back.

Favorite Game of all time: Infocom games! How I miss you. And my Apple IIe

Current Mac(s): G3 snow iBook, just got my pretty pretty G4 iMac in the mail two days ago. 17"! It's like a dream come true.

I'm glad to see a forum for Mac junkies! I started my first site mainly because I saw a huge black hole in the business: no Mac-oriented sites in my field! I corrected it. :-)

[Liane]

Hi! My name is Liane and I am a Mac-a-holic. I have been clean and virus free for nearly 10 years.

I am about to buy a G4 but am concerned that once I test the waters, I will never be able to touch another PC again. Just the thought of using a G4 gives me the DT's. All that speed ... all that memory! Will I be able to walk away? Not sure I will have the strength of character to turn it off! :)

[whoisgregg]

First Name: Gregg ;)

-Current Job Title: I think I am calling myself a VP these days... my job description today was Filemaker 7 Applescripting XSLT Stylesheet Writer.
-Mac user since: 1985 -- Five years old!
-Current Macs: 17" iMac flatpanel (home), Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 w/ 20" Cinema Display (work), 40 gig iPod (car)
-Favorite "new toys": Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for home (will later be part of my HTPC, er I mean HTMac)
-Modus operandi: Never measure, just keep cutting.

-What I like about this board:
You actually get answers to questions, sometimes lots of different ones! (This adds the messy issue of karmic balance, which is why I try to always spend more time posting answers than I do posting questions.)

-What I'd like to see more of:
More mac mentions in the non mac forum. :) It's not about evangelism, it's about being right. lol

[123dhs321]

Name : Ryan
Native laguage : English
Sex : yup
Lives : Eugene, OR
Occupation : Web Designer
Hobbies : Music
Pet : Sahalie dog
OS : X 10.3

[akmac]

Name: cleve

Location: SE Alaska

Toys: Old G4 powermac 400
G4 powerbook-both running 10.3

Hobbies-Snowboarding, Fishing, hunting, and web/graphic design.
(natural progression, huh?)

Lurking in the the forum for a few months-hope I can contribute something...

Thanks to macguru for his guiding light.

Aside from testing-been windoze free for 5 yrs.

Thanks for the fine forum!

[Bennie]

Name : Bennie
Native language : English
Sex : lots
Lives : Queensland Australia
Occupation : Web Developement, seo + design
Hobbies : Web, english pool, search, lurking
Pet : Stafordshire Bull Terrier
OS : 10.3
Weapon of choice : PowerBook G4, 1.33 GHz, Memory 1 GB
Mac user since: 1989
Favorite "toys": html and google

Seriously though, this PowerBook is the BEST toy EVER, well worth the investment. GO MAC or go home!

[abertone]

I am a mac lover and pc user. I couldn't get along without both, but if I could, the pc would get chucked out the window!

I currently run an iMac version A (just for fun), blue and white upgraded to a G3 with 1Gb RAM, Pismo with 1 Gb RAM and my main baby is a tiBook G4 with, you guessed it, 1 Gb RAM.

I love my macs!

[Addicted2Mac]

Real Name: Kelly

Got my first iMac (Bondi) in late 1999. Then moved on to a spring 2001 graphite G3. I now use an eMac G4 1 GHz on a daily basis. Still have all three machines and love them. Have a laptop running windows XP but can not tolerate it. To me everything is so much simpler on the Mac. I'm sure Windows users feel the same away about their machines also.

I must say that the eMac is a great machine. So much quicker then my other two iMac's.

What my Macs are used for -
eMac - Designing and maintaining sites and creating graphics.
Graphite iMac - Daughter's use
Bondi iMac - Back up in case ever needed.

[psychobilly]

Real Name: Alex

Occupation :
Design and Marketing Communications

Hardware:
Dual 867Mhz (Mirror Door), 400Mhz Pismo, 15' PowerBook (Aluminum) (Patiently waiting for G5 PowerBook), Compaq 1GHz AMD Athlon, Windoze 2000 Pro for MS SQL and test purposes. Canon Digital Rebel, Canon Optura 200 MiniDV, Nikon CoolPix 990

Software:
Panther, Studio MX 2004, Adobe CS, FCP 4, DVDSP 2, BBEdit 7.0, MS Office 10 and for fun iLife 04...

Miscellaneous:
I've been using a Mac since 86' when my dad brought home his MacPlus from work. I've been using Photoshop since version 1.0. Started using PageMaker and Freehand when it was owned by Aldus.

Mac's I've owned: Mac IIci, Quadra 700, Quadra 840AV, PowerMac 7100, PowerMac 8600, G3 233, 2 x G4 450, iMac 350 (slot-loading), PowerBook 5300C, PowerBook 1400CS, 2 x Performa 6300CD (ouch), PowerCurve 120 (Clone), Mac SE/30, Strawberry iMac (the only Mac I had that died, one day I'll turn it into a fish tank), Mac Color Classic and 667MHz TiBook, Apple QuickTake digital camera...

Oh, and I forgot to add a 20GB iPod which died 2 weeks ago due to abuse... RIP.

Interests:
Travel, surfing, ice hockey

[jusdrum]

Justin Kistner

Run a Dual 2GHz G5 and tote a 12" iBook around

Play drums

Started a successful web dev. firm in Portland

I have had a strange obsession lately with racing go carts at Malibu Grand Prix.

[Musicarl]

I didn't set out to be a webmaster, but when it came time to bring the idea to the net, I became one. Armed with my trusty Powerbook 2400, I created a database of song information to use on my radio show. After a while, I put the filemaker database online and eventually made a website out of it. Years later, we're still on a mac - built and maintained with an Ibook and Powerbook, hosted on a G4. For the most part, Lasso has served us well. It couldn't have happened if other Mac users weren't so supportive along the way.

[basenotes]

May as well take the plunge.

I've been a Mac devotee for 6 years now, and now own a Bondi Blue iMac, Graphite iBook and Lamp-style new-ibook.

I run a website which is to do with my old hobby, and have built w/sites for others too.

I have to use Windows at work, and I faaaar prefer using my Mac.

Oh, and my name's Grant!

[coffeeguy251]

Hi all,

Name: Andy

Sex: Absolutely!

Location: Indianapolis

Occupation: My wife & I own a coffee shop/Internet café, and I'm a once & future webmaster.

Mac User Since: December 1984 (Apple II user since 1980 - got it for my 10th birthday & still have it in storage).

Macs Currently in Use: 14" 700MHz iBook (mine), Beige G3 266MHz (server), Pismo PowerBook G3 400MHz (wife's), Lombard PowerBook G3 333MHz (for coffee shop employee use), Blueberry iMac Rev. C 266MHz (public terminal in coffee shop).

Macs in Storage, etc.: Original Mac 128k (upgraded so it thinks it's a Mac Plus (SCSI, 1MB RAM, etc.), Quadra 800 (a whopping 33mHz! w00t!), Grape iMac DV Rev. E 400MHz (dead power supply).

Hobbies: Running a coffee shop; reading; learning more XHTML/PHP/MySQL; playing games on my Mac; explaining complex (even not-so-complex) computer concepts to mere mortals; hardcore geeking with the other card-carrying, life-member geeks that hang around in my coffee shop...

I just discovered this site, and am surprised at myself that I'd never run across it before. Glad to be here, and looking forward to sharing knowledge and learning more and more.

--
CoffeeGuy251

[scottf]

Hey,
I'm Scott.
I develop sites on my iBook and iMac.
I tend to use Dreamweaver 2004 for my mass needs and then go in afterwards and fine tune.

I love streaming radio stations for some reason, and can be a bit of an odd one sometimes :-)

Any other questions? Feel free to ask.

[Bonusbana]

name: David

loc: Sweden

hobbies: tasting mommys medicine, 1-minute chessgames and breakfasts with german müsli.

mac: started with a macPlus and resEdit in 1988, now 933 g4 quicksilver with two mamma screens.

cashflow: graphic designer, web design & standards consultant, css/xhtml programmer and php/mysql geek.

favourites: BBedit, safari, photoshop, illustrator & TonyHawk 4

wishlist: when will Vice City be availible on mac?

why mac? I havent made a reboot since I moved into my new office (2 months ago). That says it all.

[jtnt]

Glad to see there's some place to make an introduction.

I manage an office of over 15 Macs as well as manage a team of 2 other web developers who use Macs to build web sites - something of a rare breed today. Glad to see a forum dedicated to us.

They call me the CTO. I call myself the Chief Geek.

I'll be around...

[ShootinBlanks]

NAME: Ken

LOC: Beautiful BC, Can eh da

SEX: On occasion

FIRST Apple: IIe 128K in 1983

FIRST Mac: PM6100 in 1990something

CURRENT MAC: beige G3/233 and G4/400

CONFESSION: I have a pentium in the same room with the Macs, but it's been dead since it was infected with some horrible virus thing in 1998

FAVE T-SHIRT: I am ROOT - Fear my wrath!

OS: 9.2.2 (My guru told me to wait for the bugs to get out of OSX before I switched. Is it ready for people yet?)

OCCUPATION: This'n that, mostly on the web.

MAIN GRIPE: Having to use Virtual PC because there doesn't seem to be much SEO software for the Mac.

[Bryan_T]

Hello, I'm Bryan,
residing in the upper Southeastern U.S.

Running OS 9.2.2 on a 2k model iMac DV

I use BBEdit, Fetch, PS, Flash, Bryce

I plan to buy a PC for all the obvious reasons, but I will always maintain that Windows is needlessly complicated. Even with XP, the Win-Mac keystroke ratio is still around 3:1.

[hightraffic10]

NAME: Blake

LOC: Upstate New York

FIRST Apple: About one year ago, i started my job and was harassed everyday for working on a pc.

FIRST Mac: Emac

CURRENT MAC: Emac

OS: OS X Pather

OCCUPATION: Internet Marketing, Web Developemnent

MAIN GRIPE: That everyone doesnt use a Mac, when clients call how do I do this? I cant move a file, blah blah, my reply "I dont know I use an Apple and its really easy"

On a side note, I have currently converted 3 people over to macs in a little over 6 months.

[Fearless]

Name: Earl
Location: The Great Black Swamp (seriously...)
Occupation/Avocation: political and non profit web master. Stay at home dad, etc (Used to work in the IT department of a large educational system that went all Pee Sea- couldn't stand it- what a waste! Broke my heart. I could have stayed on but it was too gross. Now people ask me to do Pee Sea tech work and I refuse- they don't have enough money. )

I can't even remember how long I've been using Macs. There's a IICI in the closet or the the attic somewhere... before that it was a Plus or something.

Currently, we have an old Sawtooth which needs to be updated. Thinking about buying an OWC Extreme processor upgrade. [Anybody have any hands on experience with them? Love to hear from ya!]

I've been using Dreamweaver lately. Started using Cyberstudio when it was version 0.8 and a free download from a server in Germany... Probably will switch to Adobe CS and OS X when "tiger" comes out.

I'm interested in acquiring voice recognition hardware/software because my typing sucks and I have ergonomic issues.

Oh, let's see... there are various other old Macs around for various purposes. I make my kids use a 7600 that I put a G3 processor in. I have a Pee Sea that I use to check my websites, for the Google toolbar and so forth.

Word of wisdom: Windoze emulation is a waste of time and money. Buy a cheap box and just use it. Why risk infecting your Mac?

Latest project: learning to use MoveableType 3.0 to create websites that not for profits can update themselves.

[castanet]

First name: David
Home: Mallorca, Spain
Moved from UK a year ago so wife could open a language school and had to get someone to build us a web site. Later reckoned I could do it better myself so, armed with my iMac and a shareware html editor, set to work. Have done a few sites since but feel I have got to invest in a pc (excuse the language) cos I'm just not seeing what those in XP-land are seeing. It can be a problem. If anyone has a solution which will which avoid me buying that Dell, please let me know. Nice to meet you all, by the way.

[edited by: Macguru at 3:20 pm (utc) on June 4, 2004]
[edit reason] Per TOS [webmasterworld.com], no personal URI [/edit]

[castanet]

Macguru
So sorry for the url - I'm new here.

[Macguru]

No biggie, it happenend to almost everyone here, me included!

A definite welcome to the board castanet! :)