About MacCreator

MacCreator is a web site for people who are creative or who use Macintosh computers. There are articles about creativeness that have little to do with the Mac, and Mac articles which are not specifically about creative uses. Naturally, if you are both creative and use Mac, you are home now:)

The number of good Macintosh web sites is an embarrassments of riches. But the number of good sites for creative people is just an embarrassment.

And considering that a big core group of Mac users are creative people, a Mac site for creators was much needed. So here it is.

I don't write technical stuff. There are many fine web sites and books about that. I attempt to acheive a broader understanding of how things work in these areas, and to convey it in a positive manner. How can we use this wonderful technology to "make a dent in the Universe", as Steve Jobs aptly put it.

The typical creative computer user is one who did not jump into the technical part with joy. Take me for instance. A friend recently reminded me that in the early nineties, before I had ever used a computer, he asked me why I did not get one for my writing. Part of my reason was that they were still too expensive, but another part was that I thought they were too hard to use, that I could probably not do it well. So even though I later learned to compute on a Windoze machine, I got myself a Mac computer when the time came, for they have a deserved reputation for being easier to use. And that is my audience for this site, people who use computers because they want results, not because they love to fiddle with the machines.

What do I mean by "creative people"? Well, basically, if you consider yourself creative, you are. I mean of course people who create art, music, books, all of that, but I am not putting narrow limits on it.

I am not a Mac fanatic. I simply appreciate good tools. If a computer comes along that works easier and faster for me than the Mac, I will get one. (But as things look, I am not holding my breath:)

Why no ad banners? Well, I dislike them, they can ruin the style of anything. And I have always failed to see the logic of advertising, anyway. If something can attract people, can't it pay for itself? So I will make some cool tee-shirts, make a bookshop, and later collect the best of my articles, when I have enough, into a best-selling book:)

I hope you get something out of it. And if you do, write me with your viewpoints. Readers' feedback is the only real encouragement for keeping on.

Yours, Eolake Stobblehouse