We have tried to keep the essence of this site – which is focussed primarily at members of the Maui Apple Users Society simple. That said it contains a wealth of information that we will continue to grow and index.
Note that the menu at the top of the page has just 5 links:
and finally
Every post is categorized in three ways :
Topic – Hardware, Software, iOs etc ?
Type – is the information news, an announcement, special deal ?
Date – when was the information posted ?
All three categorizations can be found on the right hand side.
There are many ways to keep up to date with this blog – and we hope you do.
1) Keep coming back to the blog – and you will be able to see the latest posts.
2) Wait for our occasional news letters – and we will be sure to include links to some of the posts.
and
3) RSS.
RSS ?
So what’s that then? (Well if you really want to know – this is what Wikipedia has to say)
But – to keep it brief – it actually stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, and in simple terms is an internet protocol that allows you to easily check all your interesting places on a regular basis.
If you look to the right in the navigation column, you will see a section on community – where you can follow us on Facebook (go on do it now, one less thing to do later), check out our Event Calendar – or subscribe to this blog (thirf link beside that orange icon).
Click on it and you will be ‘auto magcally’ taken to our feedburner page where we track our subscriptions – and asked to subscribe with your favorite news reader.
If you don’t see your favorite one – like google, or yahoo, newsgator – try out the drop down box and select there.
You will see in the graphic above NetNewsWire is selected – that happens to be my news reader of choice – free and available for download from here.
NetNewsWire gives you all the benefit of a desktop client – but also automatically synchs with Google News Reader – which I like to use on my phone (NewNewsWire does have an iPhone client (again free) – but I have so many feeds that it is slow – with Google Reader, I get the bits I want – on demand – and very quickly.
As a point of interest – this is a snap shot of my version of NetNews Reader – you will see I have over 41,000 unread news items (no I don’t read them all). – and they break down into folders I have created around my areas of interest – my personal and business blogs, apple, marketing, maui, music – you get the drift. So – whatever frame of mind I am in – i can go pick up the latest news in a single app – right there – right then.
Powerful – know that I have not paid for any of the apps I run, nore any of the feeds – and there are around 260 seperate places I pull from including newspapers, magazines, business blogs, pro bloggers, friends etc. all contribute to creating my personal newspaper.
If you are still stuck – and want to know more – have no hesitation in contacting me :: jphilpin [at] me [dot] com. And maybe we will run a demo and RSS discussion at the next meeting ? Let us know.
