Today, one year ago, Mac Recon appeared from nowhere. That means there are some anniversary specials! First, we have the giveaway — take a look at the list below to see some Mac apps you can win, courtesy of MacRabbit, Binary Nights, Acqualia, Aquafadas and Yummy Software.
-CSSEdit 2.5
-DeskShade 2
-ForkLift (x3)
-Picturesque
-PulpMotion
-YummyFTP
To enter, just leave a comment in this post where you tell of an interesting Mac experience you had at any point in time as a Mac user. The winners will be chosen randomly on August 6th.
And stay tuned, as other special posts are coming throughout the day.
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[tags]Apple,Mac,Software,Giveaway,Blog,Mac Recon[/tags]
Xico Pires on July 26th, 2007 at 6:11 am says:
I’m a brazilian mac user. It’s very hard to buy an mac here, because it’s very expensive, but I love macs and use then since 10 years ago.
Matt Moriarity on July 26th, 2007 at 6:35 am says:
One of my favorite Mac experiences was actually using windows with boot camp. I couldn’t believe how easy apple managed to make installing windows. Just pop in a CD, and it will install all the drivers you need. Still amazing that no one else has made it this easy.
Galley on July 26th, 2007 at 7:27 am says:
I have been taking my MacBook to work lately, using iWork ‘06 to create presentations, instruction manuals, and other training materials. The problem is that now my work is too good. The other training specialists are stuck with MS Office on their PCs, and their stuff looks lame and it takes them 2-3x as long to create.
Arjun Muralidharan on July 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pm says:
Hey Frank, congrats on what has come to be a respectable Mac resource.
I currently am having my most riveting and exhilarating mac experience, and that is - by being in India, forced to use windows!
I think the entire community will agree that you can’t say why Macs are our choice of platform in just one or two sentences. It’s all the little nooks and crannies and details that you begin to miss once you’re out in the wild.
Right now, I really miss most of my super applications, and I miss Safari. Yes, I do.
Mitchell Koch on July 26th, 2007 at 12:41 pm says:
An interesting Mac experience I’ve had was using iBooks in a hotel room that only had an ethernet hookup to share wireless within it. I guess now you can do this with an Airport Express, but a few times while sharing a room, my brother and I would take turns being connected to the wall in the hotel room and sharing the connection over wireless for the other to use as well. It’s really very simple to do stuff like this.
Michael on July 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm says:
Ah, an interesting Mac experience…
I became a mac convert over three years ago via a Multimedia lab at my university. My most glorious mac moment was about a month ago, when I finally consecrated that relationship with my first personal piece of mac hardware, the new MacBook Pro. I had already ditched my Dell laptop about two years ago, and was using public (mac) computers in the meantime, but now I have my own!! woo
Travis on July 26th, 2007 at 4:19 pm says:
I actually thought I made a mistake when I bought my first mac. I was very PC savvy, and was afraid that when push came to shove I wouldn’t be able to stay as productive with my mac as I did my PC. Still, I needed a very small laptop for Uni, so I picked up a 13″ macbook from the Brigham Young University student store. It only took about two minutes before I became a convert. After opening it up, it told me to hold still for three seconds and *snap!* There was a picture of me.
Oh man, I was easy - but I have never looked back.
Chris on July 26th, 2007 at 4:51 pm says:
Well, i dont have very many since i got my mac yesterday, but i will say, the “welcome to tiger” video that plays on the first boot up just amazed me. this was crazy. a startup that doesnt involve a blue screen with old ascii type text. ive switched and im not lookin back.
Darren on July 26th, 2007 at 8:37 pm says:
Macs played an integral part in my proposal to my fiancee. We’ve been dating for a while, but this last year she’s been at school in the east coast while I’m still in the west coast. We’ve been using ichat video on our macs a lot to talk to each other. When I went to NY to surprise her, I hid in the other room of her apartment and talked to her on ichat, so she thought i was still on the west coast. then i came out of the room and surprised her with the ring!
Ryan on July 27th, 2007 at 11:30 pm says:
It is interesting, for me, to see how the general public’s opinion on the Macintosh has changed over the years. Ten years ago, the public left the Mac for dead; it wasn’t a question of if the Mac would die, but rather when. Whenever I’d try to hype a mac to someone, they’d just dismiss the machines as a ‘hunk of junk’ and continue in their Windows-only ways. Nowadays, however, people ask me for my opinion on the Mac, and why they should spend a little extra (up front) to buy one, rather than buy the Dell that appears cheaper.
Gortman on July 28th, 2007 at 9:45 am says:
I have had my mac for only two years, but I do have something interesting to share:
A friend of mine recently got his first mac and one day came running to me claiming that someone had hacked his mac. He started cursing at me because i had told him that macs were much secure, etc, but that it had not done any difference. It turned out he had stumbled to one of those websites where they turn your built in camera on and display live video of you. He said that someone was watching him. I just turned to him and wanted to smack his face because of the ignorance he had shown. I had to show him the sites code just to calm down his fears and that it just was a neat local feature of the site. I still laugh at him this very day. Yes, i am now a major mac geek.
Donna on July 29th, 2007 at 4:04 pm says:
My mac timeline!
The year was 1997… I crashed my future husband’s OS 7 install quicker then you could say Macintosh (or make a toasted cheese sammitch - Honestly, I can’t remember which!) The poor thing had this feature that appeared to be made specifically for me. He kicked me out of the chair, booted onto this “hidden” system partition and restored the OS almost faster then I trashed it! Okay - I’m partially sold.. you CANT do that with Windows!
Fast forward to the dawn of OS X. I was still a Windows user, but there was a sage iMac in the household that received a sweet kiss from the new OS. I was amazed! Astounded! Flabbergasted… a pretty operating system that was fashionable AND functional? (Being a Unix sys admin by trade, I must say back then all I could so was stare in awe and go wow!)
During the 10.2 years - as a Christmas present I got my VERY own Mac! An iBook G3. Me? A mac user? You have GOT to be… oh now wait. Look! It works! I plugged it in and it just works!!! No fluff installed? No drivers to hunt down? Heaven in a laptop! But.. to much in Windows. I can’t abandon it yet. So many things to change, so much to convert!
April 2006 - I upped for a new model. A screaming 1.8 gHz dual core duo MacBook Pro. Fancy silver case. And oooooh iLife. My lovely application, where have you been all my life!?
Now…. July 2007?
What’s Windows? …. I have spent the last 30 days moving everything (every doc, mp3, mp2, gif, jpg, tiff, wav, doc, txt, the list goes on and on) to my laptop. And I am almost done. My 8 years of email is the last to move, and that was filtered and “folderized” just yesterday. Maybe today will be the day, perhaps tomorrow, where I make the complete switch! But everything I ever wanted, everything I ever need is right there already on my Mac!
And the future..
Linux on the PC to become a mythTV backup - and in its place, perhaps a Mac Pro! Oh come to me soon, my leopardy OS - for I can wait no longer….
I’ve gone from “well you can’t do THAT on a Mac” to “Windoze? What’s that” in a decade. I have seen the evolution of what Apple has to offer and with every step going forward, I can truly say that I have been converted! My mac experience cannot be tied to any one experience I have had, but to the timeline just touched on above as my evolution as to why I have truly become a Mac geek!
Jeremy on August 3rd, 2007 at 7:58 am says:
Believe it or not, my greatest Mac experience was when I was finally able to play PC games on my Intel iMac after Boot Camp was released. Currently I have a great collection.
MaDBooM on August 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm says:
I’m an IT guy who got so fed up with using a flaky windows PC to fix flaky windows PCs, so I requested a Mac. Now I’m on my second Mac at work (15″ MBP), and am anxiously awaiting the release of the next version of the iMac and Leopard so I can by one for home.
Daniel on August 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm says:
I’ve been using a Mac since the System 7 days. The moment I jumped to OS X was the most amazing time. It’s so great to see the OS constantly;y evolve.
Who Knows on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm says:
What a bunch of newbies!! I’ve been using Apple since the days of the Apple II and worked my way through almost every model coming out of Apple’s factories over the years, including the original Mac, the Lisa.
The best OS: OS 9.x.
The best Mac: beige PowerMac G3.
Both of which I’m still using every single day.
(Note: This is NOT a competition entry - the email address is faked.)
Hinching on August 5th, 2007 at 1:35 am says:
Normally I wouldn’t bring my laptop out but there was once when I did. I brought my Powerbook G4 to the local Coffeebean & Tea for some wifi internet. What struck me was when a total stranger sat himself on the seat opposite and started talking about Mac like an old friend.
It just shows that the Mac community might be smaller but still exists.
Karl on August 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pm says:
When I lined up for the iPhone at the Fifth Ave store I saw Steve Jobs. It was pretty far, but I saw him. I am an Apple fanboy, so what?