The move is finally complete

Switching To Mac has finally moved to its new home (web host). I’ve been referred to this one by a fellow blogger who has nothing but good things to say about their uptime, speed and support (he runs several high profile sites using them). The forums have been re-migrated and though a couple days worth of posts have been lost, I’m still considering it a success. Frankly, if I never have to look at cPanel or phpMyAdmin again, it’ll be too soon.

What does this mean to you? All of the posts I’ve been holding off on publishing, are now being scheduled. Forum updates and upgrades will start taking place. The site is ready to kick-off and start going full-steam. By nothing but sheer luck (frankly, it’s about time some good luck came my way regarding this whole transition) all of this happened on a Friday. That gives the weekend for DNS to propagate across the Internet, meaning that by Monday, when the first batch of tutorials are scheduled to go up, the vast majority of you will have no problem viewing them.

Phew.

Forums back up

Thanks to Mike for his effort in getting to the database to make a backup, the forums are back up. Previous logins/passwords should still work, posts should still be intact etc. Please (please!) let me know if there are any problems.

The test came back negative, I don’t have strep throat. That isn’t making it hurt any less, but I suppose it’s good news. As soon as I’m 100% (heck, even 80%) I’ll continue to re-publish old content, update the forums etc. Thanks for hanging in during this less than perfect transition

Worst. Timing. Ever.

And in todays news, I probably have strep throat. The good news is I’ve found a graphic designer who is coming up w/ an excellent new logo for S2M. For now, I can be found in bed, trying to sleep this thing off.

Still working on the forums, still hopeful that all data can be restored.

Soft Launch of the new Switching To Mac

Welcome to the newly re-designed (but far, far from finished) version of Switching To Mac. As many of you know, Mike has decided to “hand over the helm” to someone, and that someone turned out to be me. So where to start.. I guess an introduction is in order. My name is Ross McKillop, and up until now my primary site has been Simple Help. Over there, I’ve done a lot of Mac tutorials, along w/ Windows, Linux and misc. other stuff. Going forward, all of my Mac focus will be directed to this site, and Simple Help will go Windows/Linux only… Read more

Under Renovation

After a phone call, screen sharing and an hour or two of frustration on both of our parts, it seems as Read more