. |  iReview Reviewed- 12 January 2000
Dan Knight
As a webmaster, one of the most important parts of
Apple's new internet strategy is iReview
-- Apple's own guide to the World Wide Web. iReview has
categories for movies, kids, shopping, cars, parents,
computers, health, sports, music, seniors, finance, news,
travel, real estate, and games. If that sounds comprehensive, think different. Where
would I go to find out about DVD players and movies? One
section looks at current movies, another will help me buy
once I make my choice, but where's the link to a site that
will help me make that choice? (I'm a big fan of The DVD
Resource Page. I've recommended Apple ireview it, but had to
admit it didn't fit any of their categories.) Of course, as a Mac webmaster what matters most is having
my site listed under Computers. It isn't. In fact, Apple has so far found only eleven
computer-related web sites worth linking to on iReview. Of
these eleven, only four are Mac-centric, and three of the
four are owned by the same publisher. There's no link to MacSurfer's
Headline News, perhaps the most important Mac-centric
site for fresh links on the entire World Wide Web. Among my daily list of sites to visit, only MacWeek,
MacCentral, and
MacFixIt made the
iReview Eleven. Apple gives MacWeek five stars, while
visitors rate it at four. MacCentral only receives three
stars from the iReview staff, although visitors rate it one
star higher. MacFixIt merits a five star rating from both the iReview
staff and visitors to the site. This site should make
anyone's Top Ten list of Mac-related web sites. But where are the links to Accelerate
Your Mac!, Applelinks,
Mac
Madness, MacNN,
The Mac Observer,
Macs Only!, and the
other sites I visit daily? There's not even a link to MacInTouch,
the oldest Mac-centric web site out there. Maybe I shouldn't be disappointed that Low End Mac didn't
make the cut at iReview. I'm in very good company.  - Suggestion: If you haven't already signed up
for iTools, do so. Any Mac with OS 7.6.1 or later can
(visit iTools
Tamer for more info). And once you're registered,
suggest Apple review your favorite web sites.
Recent Editorials- Choosing a good printer,
Chris Lawson, Mac Daniel, 4/12. "What's a good printer for a
vintage Mac, one you can still get toner or ink cartridges
for?"
- Dutchmen sneak past Team Mac
Observer, Mac Musings, 4/12. They came out of nowhere, pushing
Team Mac Observer to 20th place.
- A road not taken (by Apple), Scott
Atkinson, Mac Musings, 4/11. "Unlike Macs, there's nothing here to
make you stop and admire the craftsmanship."
- Macs get the job done, Todd H.
Cheong, My First Mac, 4/11. "My first Mac was an SE. It had 1 MB
of memory, no hard drive, and no printer."
- AOL@school, Evan, iMac
Musings, 4/11. "AOL will be soon releasing a new version of their
software specifically for schools...."
- Team Mac Observer dealt major
setback, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 4/10. Defection costs team
several thousand work units, drops back to #19.
- Low End Mac at three, Dan Knight, Mac
Musings, 4/10. A look back at Low End Mac's first three
years.
- Troubleshooting My Mac
IIfx, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 4/10. The trials
and joys of bringing a Mac IIfx back to life.
- Apple Tech Support or pop
psychology?, David Schultz, Virtuality, 4/7.
- Picking an older Power
Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Mac Daniel, 4/6. First generation Power
Macs can be quite a value.
- Team Mac Observer expands, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 4/6. No sign of ET yet, but new members have
closed the gap between Team Mac Observer and Team
Lockergnome.
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