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.
I miss Sitelink.net.
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.
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!
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?