“It is with incredible sadness that I write this note today. MacCentral and MacMinute founder Stan Flack passed away quietly on Monday in his Prince Edward Island, Canada home at the age of 42. According to his sister, Stan died of complications to a pre-existing condition,” Jim Dalrymple reports for Macworld.
MacDailyNews Note: According to a report by The Inquirer’s Nick Farrell, Flack “died due to health complications related to a congenital liver disease.” Full article here.
Dalrymple continues, “In 1999, Stan sold MacCentral to Macworld. That was definitely a good thing for everyone involved, but a couple of years later Stan got the itch to start another new site. It was then that he founded MacMinute. I can’t begin to explain how sad I am today… Stan was not only my friend, he was a brother. Rest in Peace, Stan.”
Full article here.
Macworld and MacCentral’s Peter Cohen has posted a remembrance of Stan Flack on his personal site here.
Our condolences to Flack’s family, friends, and co-workers.
Very sad news
RIP Stan. I loved MacCentral back in the day and MacMinute was always a great site to get and very addictive.
You’ll be missed.
shhhhhhh.
A moment of silence.
The best site at its time and before it sold to MacWorld was MacCentral, hands down.
Stan did an excellent job, and a lot of us will remember him for what he did for the Mac community.
My guess is that he already has another bank of servers and a new site good to go in heaven to serve all the other Mac folks up thar.
His soul is much snappier now!
We’ll miss you, Stan ol’ buddy. You were one of the best.
Shut Down in Peace, Mac Brother.
MacCentral was indeed good.
Salute.
I’m very sorry to learn of his death. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.
Peace.
Okay he’s my age. Yikes.
Wow, that’s sad. Condolences to the family. May he rest in peace.
Stan, you will be missed.
Mr. Flack hear my prayer:
Stan
Grant me Serenity
To Accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can and
the wisdom to know the difference.’
Amen
I hate the term “passed away.” What does it really mean, anyway?
I came to MDN after MacCentral was glorped up by MacWorld. MacCentral is yet to be surpassed as the best Mac news aggregator on the web.
Thanks Stan. I’ll miss your work.
MacCentral was one of the first Mac centric sites I visited back in teh day. It was good stuff. Kudos to Stan.
sad news
grate luck in the next world , matey boy
🙁
RIP, Stan.
Rest in peace Stan the Man…and thanks for all your work on MacMinute…one of my ‘regular’ Mac sites.
21-apple salute to ya….
RIP to the man I have never heard of & founder of MacCentral and MacMinute, which I also have never heard of.
Again RIP.
My sincere condolences to Stan’s family and friends.
RIP
=:~)
Explains why it hadn’t updated in a few weeks.
Whatever happened to Jack from As the Apple Turns?
MacCentral was THE place i went to for Mac news back in the days. They did great work.
@ Ampar: “Shut Down in Peace, Mac Brother.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Amen.
Good lives are often short one and stan has a good one…
I feel for the family
my condolences.
RIP stan.
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