h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you have any favourite links which are specifically useful to Mac users, put them here (while you still can!) and I'll transfer them to the actual page when I have a moment...

"Home pages" *won't* be included - just reference material for now, but I may set up a seperate link farm later...

http://www.macsurfshop.com
Great site featuring Mac tees and such.

TPG, I'm pretty sure that one's a little too commercial, and thus would risk getting the page hidden...

They have some interesting links on their "Buddies" list, though - I'll try to skim some of those this afternoon, with a view to including them...

It's not commercial... it's... a... political statment... yeah, that's it... for a good cause... yeah, yeah! "Wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more..."

[URL's removed my moderator]

Both of those lead to a "page doesn't exist" page...?

Ahhh... Found them...

They're both supposed to be ".shtml", not ".html"...

Added.

Whoops! sorry

You could also include TheRegister.co.uk which covers general IT news, however anything specific to Macs will appear on this page: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/index.html

Peet, what about http://www.resexcellence.com ? Excellent site with fun ResEdit stuff.

What about some of the newsgroups?

comp.sys.mac.*
alt.binaries.mac.*

That's a good idea in principle, but I'll have to do a little research to locate web interfaces for them, and I don't have time just now...

Don't tell me Tefkat's been hitting you with her leetle problem as well.

Don't think you're getting away with it that easily

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.sys.mac

and

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.sys.macintosh

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.sys.mac
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=uk.comp.sys.mac

Google don't provide an interface for binary newsgroups (for fairly obvious reasons).
You could just link directly to them eg. news:alt.binaries.mac and let the person's default newsreader handle it.

Thanks, folks! I'll add a "Newsgroups" section later tonight. I'll have a quick scan and find a few others while I'm at it (iMac, Mac-Tech etc.)

I just noticed that The Orchard doesn't have The Mac Orchard amongst the download sites

http://www.macorchard.com

All done. Not easy, considering that ing GuideML won't allow an "&" in a link address! If you get the wrong language in the Google headers it's because I had to convert "...?hl=en&group=..." in every header to "...?group=..." - it seems to work. The "English-ish" links are Google's attempt at machine translation. They're not as good as Babelfish, but they do pass the page to be translated in the URL, which makes them suitable for this purpose...