Apple Enthusiast debuts today with a mission to aggregate all the online user news and information for fans of Apple products.
Apple Enthusiast is the companion website to Apple Investor News which aggregates all the financial and business news for investors in Apple Inc. [Nasdaq: AAPL].
“It’s hard to keep up with the extraordinary amount of Apple user news,” comments Frank Cioffi, editor and publisher, in the press release. “Apple Enthusiast is designed to capture it all in one, always-updating site. Whether it’s user news about the Mac, iPods, iPhones or software, hardware, user tips, hacks, accessories, games, or the best deals for Apple-related products, we’ll have it here.”
Apple Enthusiast sorts news headlines, plus audio and video podcasts, into 22 categories spread over three main site pages, updated continually. Categories include Apple Mac, Mac OS, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple Rumors, Tips & Tricks, Apple Games, Apple in Living Room, Deals & Sales, Steve Jobs, Apple Developers and 12 other categories.
Each category can also be viewed as a standalone news website by clicking through to “single category view” which shows only that topic’s headlines going back 90 days. The site auto-refreshes every 15 minutes. Visitors can manually refresh at will, as the backend database of headlines updates every five minutes. Headlines are shown in descending time order.
“Like many of the faithful, I’m voracious for Apple-related news,” says Cioffi. “Apple Enthusiast fulfills my longtime desire to aggregate the entire Apple news universe. Apple Investor News does that for Apple business and financial news; now Apple Enthusiast does the same for the user news side of the equation.”
Apple Enthusiast can be found here.
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.
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?
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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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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