Site News

We now have the chat room user counter and a new KansasFest countdown clock in our sidebar to the left. Additionally, all the still-valid links from our old web site have been migrated to our links page. Work continues to bring the rest of our content over.

We’ve released an updated version of our MacReporter plugin that works with our new site layout. Download it now.

Today a2central.com launched a new site design, based on a database back-end that will enable us to very rapidly deploy news, files, and other content.

The video Eric Shepherd presented at this year’s roast of Geoff Weiss was not completed in time for the roast, and a shortened version was presented. The finished version is now available for download.

The primary server at Syndicomm, which hosts among other things A2Central.com, Syndicomm Online, and the KFest web site, was brought down on Friday morning by a silly mistake, which unfortunately could not be corrected until Syndicomm owner and operator Eric Shepherd returned home from KansasFest on Monday afternoon. We apologize for our down time, and will be bringing various KansasFest-related news stories to you over the next couple of days.

We have switched to Google as our search engine for A2Central.com. This should result in more thorough searches of our site. Just click the Search button at the top of any page on A2Central.com!

There is now an RSS feed of A2Central.com’s news available for those of you who aren’t Mac-heads or for some reason don’t like MacReporter. Feed this into your RSS type client program http://myrss.com/f/a/2/a2central8ye17w0.rss and enjoy!

We have created a plugin for the popular Mac OS X “dockling” called MacReporter. MacReporter sits in the user’s dock and periodically checks their favorite web sites for new news, making them available in a popup menu for quick and easy access. Now you can be notified by your Macintosh as soon as news strikes! […]

A2Central.com editor Eric Shepherd spent three weeks planning and designing the perfect April Fools’ Day prank for the A2Central.com, Juiced.GS, and Syndicomm web sites, as well as the New York subway system and the Eiffel Tower, but canceled the plans moments before deployment after remembering the complaints he got after last year’s article claiming that […]

Ken Gagne has updated his feature article on Apple II CD-ROMs. You can check out the latest information here.