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MacFixIt Celebrates 10th Anniversary

MacFixIt Celebrates 10th Anniversary

by , 9:20 AM EST, March 21st, 2006

MacFitIt turned ten on March 20th, and is giving away ten-themed prizes to celebrate. MacFitIt was launched in 1996 by TMO columnist and author Ted Landau, and has grown into a community-based support network form Mac users. Mr. Landau recently recounted the adventure that started as the Sad Macs Update Site and eventually evolved into MacFitIt.

The MacFixIt sweepstakes prizes include:

  • Ten 10 year subscriptions to MacFixIt Pro
  • Ten autographed copies of Mac OS X Help Line by Ted Landau
  • Ten sets of A-302 docking iPod speakers from iRhythms
  • Ten iPod Cocoons from STM
  • Ten two-disc sets of A Year of Fixes, the MacFixIt Archive CD-ROMs. Winners get both the 2004 and 2005 editions.

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Close Name:Guest
Subject: scam?

yeah, but you have to "buy" a product from them to register. You can snail mail an entry, but man, that's just plain skeezey!

Close Name:Guest
Subject: MacFitIt?

Um, I think you mean "MacFixIt."

And congratulations, Mr. Landau!

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Not a scam

MacFixIt is indeed running a sweeps. Go to the main page (http://macfixit.com/) and click on the birthday logo. There's also a story about it there. Full disclosure: I work there, and am helping to promote this contest. Thanks to TMO for posting this.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: I'll pass

I'm not buying anything from them. End of story. Congrats on turning a semi-useful free site into a worthless pay site and surviving this long regardless.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: May you not make another 10...

I echo the previous posters comments... MacFixit was once a great site, but now I have to pay to browse. w/e...

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