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[MacInWin]

When you update it next time perhaps you could identify any new software listing in red or with an asterisk before the title. This would negate having to read thru the entire listing looking for new additions, but instead one could quickly go thru the pages & find the new software which is highlighted.
Thank you

Not a practical suggestion, I think. To track what is "new" for you, the site would have to use cookies to keep track of when you were last there to decide what has been added since your last visit. I doubt seriously that Randy wants to do that as there are some technical complications to implementing tracking cookies and then implementing the highlighting scheme you suggested.

Now, what he could do, if he wanted, would be to have a "recently added" page where each time he adds something he enters the date it was added along with the name in a list. Over time that list would grow by adding new items to the top. Then a visitor would be able to read down the entries until they got to something they recognized from a previous visit and stop. But, again, that's more work for an unpaid volunteer website.

 

[ferrarr]

Not a practical suggestion, I think.

I think they meant, just the newly added from the last date the page was updated. Not for each individual ip address.

 

[MacInWin]

I think they meant, just the newly added from the last date the page was updated. Not for each individual ip address.

And that is what I suggested, Bob. But instead of amalgamating entries into "new" and "everthing else" keep the dates of the "new" entries in a running log. Everybody would probably visit the site on a different time rotation, some weekly, some monthly, yearly, randomly... Which means that what is "new" would totally depend on the last visit.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

I maintain about a dozen Web sites, and put out a newsletter. All of them completely non-commercial and free. Folks are always asking for me to do additional things that would be a lot more work. I can't do it all.

I've considered putting a graphic saying "NEW!" next to new entries on my Free Macintosh Software site, but the thing is, I update that page constantly. The question would be when to take off the NEW graphics. Leave them up too long, and they become worthless as a large number of the apps will have them. Take them down too early and folks who haven't visited the page in a while will complain.

I find that when I go through the entire page myself, I often note software that I hadn't thought much about previously, and it's like a new discovery. I don't think that going through the entire page to find things that you might like is an onerous task. You might like to do it a few times a year. I do it all the time, and I still like seeing the nice assortment of free software at my disposal.

Oh, by the way, during the update a couple of days ago, I added these three awesome additions:

- MacJournal
- Mist
- Marathon

I'm already evaluating a few more potential additions to the page!

 

[Slydude]

I maintain about a dozen Web sites, and put out a newsletter.

Just out of curiosity what are the other projects you maintain? I know about the free software and Mac maintenance sites as well as a mail list/newsletter primarily for attorneys.

Now that I'm retired it's probably good to keep learning/exposing oneself to new ideas/projects.

 

[MacBiter]

Oh, by the way, during the update a couple of days ago, I added these three awesome additions:

- MacJournal
- Mist
- Marathon

I'm already evaluating a few more potential additions to the page!

I bought MacJournal a few years ago and it is a great app. It was to replace Journler (the best ever app of that kind but defunct a good while ago). MJ did manage to import all my Journler entries, which is one of its menu options.

However, I discovered that Journler still ran in a slightly restricted way in Mavericks (and up to Sierra but not beyond), so I'm actually still using it, one of several reasons why I still have Mavericks as my daily OS .

 

[MacInWin]

Randy, I didn't see "Mist" in the software listing. What is that?

 

[MacBiter]

Randy, I didn't see "Mist" in the software listing. What is that?

if it's the same one, there's a GitHub app called Mist which is a downloader of Mac OS installers.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Just out of curiosity what are the other projects you maintain? I know about the free software and Mac maintenance sites as well as a mail list/newsletter primarily for attorneys.

A bunch of my Web sites, about the Macintosh computer, are listed here:

http://www.macattorney.com/welcome.html

I may have left a couple of them out. It's sometimes hard to keep track.

I also have several Web sites that are strictly for attorneys, with no regard to the Macintosh.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Randy, I didn't see "Mist" in the software listing. What is that?

Oh my! I can't believe that I almost left that off the page! Thanks for telling me.

Mist (free)
https://github.com/ninxsoft/Mist
(Automatically downloads Macintosh OS Installer programs. Can build a bootable USB drive.)

I already have seven more free programs to add the to page! Hopefully I'll get to it by the end of the week.

 

[Slydude]

Oh my! I can't believe that I almost left that off the page! Thanks for telling me.

Mist (free)
GitHub - ninxsoft/Mist: A Mac utility that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers.
(Automatically downloads Macintosh OS Installer programs. Can build a bootable USB drive.)

I already have seven more free programs to add the to page! Hopefully I'll get to it by the end of the week.

I wasn't going to do this but I have to ask a couple of questions:
1. Are you a cyborg with no need for sleep?
2. If you are not indeed a cyborg with no need for sleep, when do you sleep?

 

[Randy B. Singer]

I wasn't going to do this but I have to ask a couple of questions:
1. Are you a cyborg with no need for sleep?
2. If you are not indeed a cyborg with no need for sleep, when do you sleep?

Hahaha....I do get asked this a lot. I only sleep for three or four hours a day. I'm about 80% caffeine. After working for about 12 hours a day at my law job, I spend most of the night answering questions on various Mac and/or legal fora, creating Web sites, writing articles, etc. There is also my other passion...motorcycles. I'm a training instructor for the state. I do that some nights and weekends.

(There is a surprising amount of overlap between folks who ride motorcycles and those who are Macintosh users. In fact, I've found that another overlap is the car that many Macintosh users drive. I've heard from a surprising number of Mac users here in the U.S. who drive Hondas. I've had four Honda-made cars myself.)

 

[MacBiter]

Hahaha....I do get asked this a lot. I only sleep for three or four hours a day. I'm about 80% caffeine. After working for about 12 hours a day at my law job, I spend most of the night answering questions on various Mac and/or legal fora, creating Web sites, writing articles, etc.

That's presumably why you didn't see that I had already answered the Mist question! (Though not in as much detail as you did).

 

[flyboyy]

Join the club MacBiter.

Ian

Hey I just joined too. Had no idea. All the posts i would have liked to Bookmarked.

 

[flyboyy]

Hahaha....I do get asked this a lot. I only sleep for three or four hours a day. I'm about 80% caffeine. After working for about 12 hours a day at my law job, I spend most of the night answering questions on various Mac and/or legal fora, creating Web sites, writing articles, etc. There is also my other passion...motorcycles. I'm a training instructor for the state. I do that some nights and weekends.

(There is a surprising amount of overlap between folks who ride motorcycles and those who are Macintosh users. In fact, I've found that another overlap is the car that many Macintosh users drive. I've heard from a surprising number of Mac users here in the U.S. who drive Hondas. I've had four Honda-made cars myself.)

I had a Honda 500/4 bike in my youth which i drove all winter also. That bike was bulletproof. The only problem I had with it was Pilot-induced. Took a lickin and kept on tickin.

 

[Rod]

I have a Honda in Bali
I don't have any actual photos of mine that don't have lots of people too but this is the model. Honda Vario 160cc. I've had it for 5 years and it's my primary form of transport.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

I had a Honda 500/4 bike in my youth which i drove all winter also. That bike was bulletproof. The only problem I had with it was Pilot-induced. Took a lickin and kept on tickin.

I have a 1975 Honda CB400F sitting in my garage still. It took me back and forth to graduate school and law school! There are so many memories and good times attached to it, I've been loath to sell it. Which was fine, because for the longest time it wasn't worth anything. Now, however, so much time has passed that it's become one of the few Japanese collectables. I've heard of people flying over from Japan and paying a fortune for one. But I'll still probably hold on to it for the rest of my life.

I also have a Suzuki SV1000 for me to scare myself on:

 

[Rod]

Love the Honda. In Bali and Indonesia generally, everyone rides motor scooters from a very early age. Its nothing unusual to see a father with his baby son asleep on his shoulder while riding one handed. Of course this is only short distance local trips but you can see almost anything carried on a motor scooter from full size, live pigs to 12ft ladders, if it's possible it's been done. The most I carry is the shopping and my wife.

 

[flyboyy]

I have a 1975 Honda CB400F sitting in my garage still. It took me back and forth to graduate school and law school! There are so many memories and good times attached to it, I've been loath to sell it. Which was fine, because for the longest time it wasn't worth anything. Now, however, so much time has passed that it's become one of the few Japanese collectables. I've heard of people flying over from Japan and paying a fortune for one. But I'll still probably hold on to it for the rest of my life.

I also have a Suzuki SV1000 for me to scare myself on:
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My friend had a Kawie 1000 +-. We swapped as he wanted to see what a hound dog was like. LOL I started up on a major intersection in town and proceeded totally unbidden to do a wheelie, half way across the very large 5 direction intersection. What a fright i got !

 

[Jimmysb]

I have had a few Hondas, currently running a Forza 300, age, and a few broken bones necessitates something lighter: