Aug 27

Keep up to date

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If you’d like to keep up to date with new articles on macintoshhowto.com there’s a simple way. Enter your email address in the field below and you’ll receive an email each time there’s a new post (once or twice a month). If you change your mind just click the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of each email and they will stop. It’s that easy!

Jan 11

New web server!

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Macintoshhowto.com has been averaging 150,000 visits a month lately. It sits on a server with 5 or 6 other web sites but I thought it deserved a server of it’s own. I moved it across it today. You can read more about it here.

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Jun 30

How to use Amazon Cloudfront to speed up your wordpress site.

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I’ve just moved all the images from macintoshhowto.com over to Amazon Cloudfront. The bottom line is that you should notice macintoshhowto.com speed up. If you want to know how to do it, read on. Continue reading ⟩

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Feb 04

New Look

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I’ve changed the look of the macintoshhowto.com. The orange and black is gone, replaced by a new WordPress theme called iblog that has more of an Apple feel. The entire site is also now iphone friendly.

The old theme looked like this.

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Oct 04

How to publish your own wordpress site (Advanced)

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I use bluehost.com to host the macintoshhowto.com website. This means I pay blue host a monthly fee and they provide hard disk space and computing power to run the website. To actually run the website I use some software called  Wordpress. WordPress is a great platform to host a blog or website from – it’s very easy to set up, and most web hosting packages will include a one step wordpress install  like the one I describe here. Here’s how to set up wordpress using bluehost. Bluehost is very cheap and reliable. I’d say as long as your wordpress website is getting under 50,000 visits a month bluehost should do the job. Macintoshhowto is just starting to reach about 80,000 hits a month and I’ve been hitting the limit of bluehost so I’ve needed to go over some things and prune some plug-ins to keep the site running smoothly.

 

So here’s how to install and run wordpress… Continue reading ⟩

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Jun 23

How do I speed up my webpage?

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You’ve made a webpage, but people are complaining that it’s too slow to load.
It may be that they have a slow computer, or it may be that your webpage has too many large files in it, and it should be made smaller. Safari can tell you how many files it needs to load, and how big they are. Here’s how. Continue reading ⟩

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Feb 02

Visitor Stats!

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For those who are interested macintoshhowto.com is averaging about 10,000 unique visits a month, from 127 different countries!  The most popular being the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and then Germany.

89% of people are new visitors, 9% are old friends returning!

56% are mac users, 41% windows users, 1% linux.

0.3% of visits are from an iphone.

0.12% from a Danger Hiptop

0.03% from a Playstation 3

0.01% (1 visit a month) from an android

Of the Macintosh users, 61% use Safari, 36% use firefox, 2% Camino or Opera.

 

Of the visits from a search engine,

92% are from google

5% from yahoo

0.5% from msn

Statistics courtesy of Google analytics!

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Mar 26

G4 logic board fault – model numbers of affected iBooks

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This is the results of a survey I conducted over a year to see what different models of the G4 ibook are affected by the logicboard fault.

The symptoms of the fault are as follows:

  • After being on for a few minutes, your ibook gets a blank black screen, the fan turns on, and the computer freezes.
  • You can’t do anything at all except power down the computer by holding the power button.
  • You restart and it doesn’t boot up.
  • You squeeze the bottom of the computer tightly together just to the left of the trackpad, and it boots up.
  • It tends to boot up when it is cold, but then stops working when it warms up.

Here are the results of a survey I conducted here on macintoshhowto.com over a period of 6 months regarding the affected models. It appears all models are affected.

In this article I described the fix for this G4 logic board fault. This survey was to test what models were impacted.

 

 

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