That small image to the left is the official MacOSXHints birthday card - click here for the full size (caution - 200kb!) version. For those of you that don't want to download a large image, here's what the card says:
November 4th, 2001: The MacOSXHints Birthday Card!It's been a complicated transition year for Mac users, and I appreciate everything I've learned about the Mac, UNIX, and OS X from everyone during the year. I often times think I learn more from this site than anyone else ;-).
[The hint pictured is the first post on the site, which was published on November 4th, 2000 at 8:26pm]
Thank you to everyone who has shared their knowledge with the MacOSXHints readership - 804 hints and 2,918 comments were published this year. Wow!
And a special THANK YOU! to those who have donated to support the site financially and help keep it ad-free. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
I'll continue to do my best to keep the site useful and informative in our second year. Some of the things on the horizon are version 2.0 of the OS X Guide (due out within a week, and it's 40+ pages!), reviews of iDVD2 and (hopefully) Office v.X, and a new site engine sometime in the next two months. Again, thanks to all of you for helping make it a very successful first year for MacOSXHints. By any commercial standards, this site is a flop - net income for the year was, um, negative ;-), and we currently have a slate of zero advertisers! But that wasn't the objective when I started the site ... I just wanted answers to my OS X questions!
Some of the interesting statistics for the site's first year include roughly 97 gigabytes of data transferred, 12+ million hits, 722,000+ page views (and October alone had 135,000+!), and 4,000+ registered users. Never did I imagine that my desire for a one-stop OS X solutions site to help my own transition would become this widely read -- again, thanks to all of you!
Your humbled webmaster;
rob griffiths
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20011104205554429