MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

Apr 09, 08 - 09:30 am Comment from: Macromancer

So what, they all just repost each other's news anyway.

One can do the same for all Apple news by going to Google News and put "Apple" in the news search engine.
Here is the link for "Apple Computer" at Google:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=apple+computer&btnG=Search+News

Plus one can set up e-mail news alerts via Google with any subject you want.

Been done. MacAgent.com does a good job. You can check which sites you want to have updated. It's great to have other sites that do it differently and add other content.

Too much small text on screen.

Apr 09, 08 - 09:47 am Comment from: Ampar

The Apple video section from Blinkx is pretty cool.

"Too much small text on screen."

Command - + is your friend.



"no smug 'takes'. I'll have to consider this..."

Promise?

I'd rather use Macsurfer.

Loads fast, but I don't have time to trawl through all those links

Isn't that what MDN does for us?

Macsurfer is better designed...better layout. Fast loading...but cluttered...imho.

it looks even worse than mdn. i thought that was hardly possible. as a designer everytime i come here my eyes get hurt, as an apple enthusiast i need this site badly though.

cluttered in reference to the enthusiast.

No RSS feed? Kind of a deal breaker...

I would guess they want to instead *become* your RSS feed.

why not just go to Guy Kawasaki's Mac new aggregator site?
here:

http://mac.alltop.com/

first impressions:

text is too small
resembles a bs pop up page
color scheme sucks ass
name is no good, most people cant spell enthusiast
looks like its got a nice database, and a decent community behind it
be careful - a money making firm like this could use the site to effect the market price

maybe it will grow on me, but not the colors.

@daily reader .... thanks for that link ... I kinda like the looks of that site ....

ugly, ugly, ugly!

Man, tiny text repeating a thousand stories that you have already read if you go to the blog sites anyway. How completely un-useful and un-mac-like.

and did I say how ugly it is?

Nice site, but I prefer their investor site.

@daily reader - Guy Kawasaki's Mac site is excellent for the multi-site news roundup, as well. I like his groupings by news source.

Apr 09, 08 - 11:11 am Comment from: MacRaven

Well for those of you who complain this site is often off Apple topic, you won't like that site.

As I was checking out links, under video there is "The Apple Sisters" Shopping Tarts. Absolutely nothing to do with Apple, Computers, tech, nothing. 3 comedy wannabes playing stupid in a grocery store.

I'll book mark AE site, but I'm still comin' to MDN first. I like it here and I like their sarcastic takes on topics.

MDN does need to do something to make their site load more "snappier". They are always loaded with piss and vinegar (that's why we love em) about all things Apple. But whatever they are using the serve this site, sucks.

Also, get rid of the stupid popup advertising "landmines". Now they start playing video if the mouse goes over them. This site is like a maze.

Apr 09, 08 - 11:30 am Comment from: Ade Clarke

No RSS - bleaugh!

Ugh! What a 'orrible look!

MacAgent is not bad, but its lazy coders still show Wired - Cult of Mac on the old blog website (updated last March, 2007) - rather inexcusable if you ask me.

Or maybe because one of their headlines says "Windows 7 Not Backwards Compatable" [sic].

That Apple Enthusiast site is so poorly designed it's unusable.

What a mess of too many little things that all carry the same weight. No thinks. It looks like it was designed by a mental patient.

MDN word: size. As in, if you make everything the same size, it all blends together into an unreadable mush.

Apr 09, 08 - 12:03 pm Comment from: Follower

Ampar - That I am.

Since people are mentioning MDN's relative slowness in loading, I'd like to thank them for introducing their mobile site, an option for which is now showing up when you load the page on an iPhone. Only one ad, across the top, and it loads quick. Thanks, MDN! I guess I'll stay around a little longer, after all.

Apr 09, 08 - 12:28 pm Comment from: alansky

The problem with sites that collect everything is that you have to sift through all of it to find the most relevant articles. Furthermore, you're only getting one man's opinion of what's worth reading.

A superior method, IMHO, is to either use an RSS reader or Google Home Page to view RSS feeds from a number of trusted sites (MDN, ArsTechnica, etc.) all at once. For me, a quick glance at the top stories in a handful of feeds instantly tells me which stories are getting the most play on the internet that day.

Apr 09, 08 - 01:19 pm Comment from: MacDailyNews Webmaster

MacDailyNews/iPodDailyNews are unaffiliated with the "Apple Enthusiast" website, although we do see that they link to our site(s) in their aggregated links.

We post their press release as a courtesy and because we routinely visit their sister site Apple Investor News (http://www.appleinvestornews.com/).

MacDailyNews/iPodDailyNews never receives compensation for any article posted on the websites. We cover only products that interest us and products that our readers request be covered. We do, from time to time, request and receive products for review purposes. The receipt of such products does not guarantee a review will even be conducted, much less a good review.

Thank you.

I miss Sitelink.net.

Apr 09, 08 - 01:46 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I was about to say, before reading MDN's post, that they looked dam close to the investor news.

Sisters, huh?.......

Okay, just took a peek. It assults my eyes!!! Ewwww....

Okay, I'm better now... I'll have to look at it in depth, but off-hand I don't like the columns of headline links... Too much "in your face".

MDN doesn't look so hot either, but somehow I keep coming back.

Apr 09, 08 - 07:26 pm Comment from: AppleMacMan

Yeah, the color scheme is terrible and the text at this site really is too small by default just as most of you here have already pointed out. I'll stick with http://mac.alltop.com/ Much better layout and easier on the eyes. 

I'm founder of both Apple Enthusiast and Apple Investor News. Thanks for all the comments, even the sucky ones. Yes, the site is not too pretty - yet. We're going for completeness and accuracy first. Design upgrades, iPhone optimization and other fun stuff coming in the next year. And thanks to MDN!

I work as a web developer... and do you think they have enough links on the home page, yuck!

@frankc23
the same old mistake people make, who know nothing about design. design, especially webdesign, is for the most part about usability, not about how beautiful it looks. your site is almost unusable because you present all the information on the same hirearchy-level. design is about structure, accessibilty and at the last point also about aesthetics.

More news and no idiot bum snacker comments.

I love it!

Apr 10, 08 - 08:43 pm Comment from: nekogami13

Scroll over words and get ads, pop up videos?

I am using firefox and adblock+, I have to ask what the hell are you talking about?