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phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 01:29 PM

We have been doing this "mac spotting" for a while where we make notes where we saw Apple product - in a movie, tv-series, contest, magazine etc. It has been quite fun and ultimate no-life hobby

I finally took some time and did a little website to make the job easier. There might still be few bugs to iron out, but hopefully someone will let me know if the site goes crazy

I'm thinking about bringing picture upload if you guys like the site and it gets some visitors.

So I invite everybody here to waste their time with new hobby

You can find the site at:
Mac Spotting

Dark Helmet · Apr 28, 2006, 01:33 PM

My lord that site is a disaster!

phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

My lord that site is a disaster!

Are you using Safari?

I just noticed it goes really weird with Safari, but it works perfect with Opera and Firefox. I wonder what I broke now

Dark Helmet · Apr 28, 2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by John_Spot

Are you using Safari?

I just noticed it goes really weird with Safari, but it works perfect with Opera and Firefox. I wonder what I broke now

yes, if you want to cater to Mac users you better get the safari issue fixed ASAP.

Even more importantly you better add some content other than ads. Right now you have more ads that content. Actually you have ZERO content from what i see.

phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

yes, if you want to cater to Mac users you better get the safari issue fixed ASAP.

Even more importantly you better add some content other than ads. Right now you have more ads that content. Actually you have ZERO content from what i see.

Yeah, I'm working about Safari issue right now.

Content is mainly mac spottings so if you have any good ideas what else to bring in, I'm happy to hear it

*edit* bug was fixed. There was some weird things happened in css file...

Dark Helmet · Apr 28, 2006, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by John_Spot

Content is mainly mac spottings so if you have any good ideas what else to bring in, I'm happy to hear it

honestly, rent a bunch of movies and at the very least list the movies or TV shows they have been spotted in.

Even better take screengrabs and list the computer model.

You must have thought of that though.

phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

honestly, rent a bunch of movies and at the very least list the movies or TV shows they have been spotted in.

Even better take screengrabs and list the computer model.

You must have thought of that though.

Yes well, this is just something that me and my friends have been doing for sometime. It's not that serious. Maybe I could integrate picture uploading in it and people could upload photos. This is more like a group effort than myself listing where I have seen Macs. Wouldn't that be kind of dull?

mdc · Apr 28, 2006, 02:34 PM

you might want to put the what is mac spotting to the left hand side above the most spotted or something. having to scroll past that message to get to the actual content is a bit much. Also you might want to make the header image a lot smaller, it's huge.

phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by mdc

you might want to put the what is mac spotting to the left hand side above the most spotted or something. having to scroll past that message to get to the actual content is a bit much. Also you might want to make the header image a lot smaller, it's huge.

Ok. I'll do some redesigning tomorrow. Now it's time for Sopranos

alligator · Apr 28, 2006, 02:44 PM

Very interesting concept. I like the idea, but there needs to be more to it. I'm not going to read 10,000 posts of mac-spotting. Maybe include a summary section (like TV shows, Magazines, etc.) with totals by each section.

Keep it up, it may eventually catch on.

RAILhead · Apr 28, 2006, 03:40 PM

I think the site title graphic should be bigger.

phentermine · Apr 28, 2006, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by alligator

Very interesting concept. I like the idea, but there needs to be more to it. I'm not going to read 10,000 posts of mac-spotting. Maybe include a summary section (like TV shows, Magazines, etc.) with totals by each section.

Keep it up, it may eventually catch on.

Those are a good ideas. I'll start putting it together tomorrow.

Nexus5 · Apr 28, 2006, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by RAILhead

I think the site title graphic should be bigger.

A "titan-graphic" Thats want you want to say, right?

nexus5.

RAILhead · Apr 28, 2006, 05:21 PM

For the record, I hope everyone knows I wasn't being serious.

phentermine · Apr 29, 2006, 12:39 AM

There you go. I changed title graphics and I added categories. I'm still thinking about picture upload. There's just that even the site has been open for a short period there's been like twenty people trying to put their url's. I wonder what kind of pictures we would get

JoshuaZ · Apr 30, 2006, 12:38 AM

Mac Spotting: Local new cafe, B&W G3 running iTunes to play the same 2 CD tracks over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Fukuyama, Japan.

B Gallagher · Apr 30, 2006, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Mac Spotting: Local new cafe, B&W G3 running iTunes to play the same 2 CD tracks over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Fukuyama, Japan.

LOL.. why does that not surprise me at all?

rickey939 · Apr 30, 2006, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by John_Spot

There you go. I changed title graphics and I added categories. I'm still thinking about picture upload. There's just that even the site has been open for a short period there's been like twenty people trying to put their url's. I wonder what kind of pictures we would get

Nice changes; however, I would make the main title graphic a little more attractive. It needs to incorporate "Mac Spotting" in one way or another, instead of just the standard Apple logo. Add "dots" to it or something for the "spotting" effect for example.

Rev-O · Apr 30, 2006, 11:51 PM

Wowzers, this got me so excited I just spotted myself!

JoshuaZ · May 1, 2006, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by B Gallagher

LOL.. why does that not surprise me at all?

Actually I lied. Thinking back on it, and checking with my friends who were with me, it turns out it was just the same sudo-french music track playing over and over again.

Besides that it was a rather nice cafe. (Though oddly we arrived at 11:25 walked in and told to come back in five minutes because the place didn't open until 11:30. Yeah, we all were confused on that one.)