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- stukdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Hey everyone, creator of FreeMacWare here. You caught us on a weekend when we were doing a lot of behind the scene work. (We figured we be safest to do it over Halloween weekend. Digg proved us wrong.) The nature of our site calls for a lot of pagviews since the it's natural to jump around to the apps.
Everything should be up and running like normal a little later.
PS, We put one new freeware app up every weekday. If you can't get on this weekend, the RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/freemacware - DeusMachinae, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20I am really drunk. But Mac apps rule.
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You killed it! Damn you all!
- crazzy88ss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10this site's been around for like... over a year?
- cvk_b, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Check this out too: http://dpsmac.com/ You can find a lot of cutting edge Japanese mac freeware there in a similar format. Many of these applications have English as selectable language.
- stukdog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@aristotle
I get the sarcasm in that. But, I should clear up one thing. We don't post every freeware app we find or get sent. We only post the quality ones and the ones that we think people would use. That's the big difference between us and versiontracker.com or macupdate.com.
@ steveng,
Thanks for posting about our site. Wish we could have had the site in it's normal state for the traffic. We'll have it back up again soon. - oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Oh man, I've been going to freemacware for a while now. It's been pretty popular, so I wasn't expecting it to go down *so* quickly. Actually, I wasn't even really expecting it to go down at all.
- Prog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wow, this is a great list indeed.
On a side note, I've never seen Wordpress used like this before. - minideezel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ya i love freemacware.com, i can't believe we killed it, their servers are mac minis from
http://www.macminicolo.net/
were the webmaster works, they also have the blog for the site http://www.freemacblog.com/
http://www.freemacmusic.com
http://www.freemacunix.com
http://www.freemacphoto.com
they have a collection of vids on how to run a server off of you mac
http://digg.com/apple/How_Do_I_Use_My_Mac_As_A_Server
which is very easy to do w/ osx
and the site is back up - Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Sites down :( The AppDelete app is pretty nice though, like AppZapper except free and lacks quote a few features. Nontheless it's good to see a competitor :)
- wphj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yup, if I hadn't won a free license for AppZapper, then I'd definitely use AppDelete instead. AppZapper is great, but I'd hardly pay for it.
- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9http://www.duggmirror.com
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That won't help.
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5a year ago it had been out for a couple years
- stukdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@minideezel
Glad you like the sites. I think we could have handled this story going on the homepage, but there is a second story on the homepage right now pointing to another post. Two stories on the homepage at once is a bit harder to handle. - rkm28, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mirrors:
http://www.freemacware.com.nyud.net:8080/
http://www.duggmirror.com/apple/Over_400_Free_Mac_Apps_The_Best_Freeware_Site_For_Mac_I_Have_Found_So_Far/ - shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6my sentiments axaectly
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Duggmirror caps the first page, but the rest was down at 48 diggs. Also that first page mostly just links to downed areas.
- Deza604, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does anyone else notice that when you click the link to the page, it automatically brings up the Duggmirror version? Is this something new that Digg is implementing? I think this is great!
- politech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@boondockss, nice of you to spam every front page article! How long will your account last?
Does Digg delete all of a spammers comments when they ban it?
How does one report a spammer like "boondockss" to the Digg management?
Well boondockss made it to my block list regardless. (Maybe I should create a 400 free Asshat List!) - rkm28, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Deza604: I'm the other partner at Freemacware.com and I setup our server to temporarily forward the home page to Duggmirror to get us through this Digg storm. (I mean "storm" in a good way!) In the future we'll have to get more server power or better tune what we've got. Thanks for stopping by.
(P.S. See my comment above for mirror locations if you can't see the site right now.) - doogiemac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Need a working link, dammit :(
- neseus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1*tear* I can't believe my fave mac software site got left out!
http://pure-mac.com/ - greatpaimei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmm... just so everyone knows... this was on digg a few weeks ago. Of course on the other hand it's also been great to me, so I don't mind. And to the Mac-basher, find me 100 free valuable XP progs and I'll be impressed. Everyone's out to make a buck these days.
- Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I just saw FreeMacWare got a redesign. I like the older one better.
- DarkSorrow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7i went to Freemacware.com many time and love it
- Lavaflows, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Over 400 they say, eh? Well I say that is in fact a disservice to the Mac community.
Case in point: Here is a site offering 7,383 freeware apps.:
http://tinyurl.com/ymj4yy - kbrookes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1qlso drunk aussie mac guy. whoa.
(toolk ,e severa; attems to get the frakin' inage passwor rigt.} - kbrookes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0ahouls aslo add - great site. usually.
- xniL, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1ditto.
- floseb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I really would like to have a mac-book. The problem: I'm broke!
I'm even thinking about making a donation site because I want one so bad?
With a bit of luck the word would spread and I'll get enough donations..
I'll see.. perhaps I will really try that. - abcdefghij, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2sooooooooooooo...
no mirror,
no copypaste,
no digg - internutdpl, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1dlundberg.com
- HiggsBoson, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2s/but/and/
- Squidly, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Meh. Just go to Versiontracker.com
Not everything is free, but get a job, hippy. - mleh, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1What are you talking about? Every site that uses WordPress and is linked to via Digg operates in the same manner.
- Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2I'm almost certain FMW won't go down.
Edit: wtf? - aristotle1990, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5Over 400 free apps! Wow! The neat thing about the Mac is that you can catalog all the free apps in one place.
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