I know this is a hefty request. But after a year of using your product Sitespinner V2. My PC died & I lost everything on my harddrive. The problem is I got a replacement. A Macbook Pro. I am now left with so much frustration I can barely handle it. As V2 is not Mac Compatible. I cannot update my site without losing my images (filepaths are gone, corrupted & lots were lost).
I need to start a new website all over again from scratch, and I am racking my brain going over the long daunting task of finding easy to use & manipulate software to create my new website & webstore. AGAIN & it has to be Mac compatible.
I don't have time to learn new applications, or they don't function how I want or lack ease, or admin is so cut & dry I don't understand html coding css or whatever.
I miss being able to use V2 and I may tear out my hair & I'm gonna cry. This is making me feel like I do when I am doing my taxes & don't understand a question. Frustrating.
I searched SO long the first time to find your product... and now I can no longer use it. And although I have heard of some sort of software that would make windows or PC function on a mac... I am Very afraid to add that feature to my macbook as I do not wish to open up a pandora's box of potential Virus's gaining a gateway into my new mac.

PLEASE make V2 MAC compatible I beg you.... I cannot go on trying to search for new software. Everything doesn't compare & I barely have time to create a new site let alone learn new admin or lack of admins for new software programs.

I do want to add that I am a small independent business with Very limited funds (at the moment)... or else finding a web designer would be in the budget.

PLEASE! make something for the rest of us.

~ p.s. if this post sounds a Tad bit over dramatic... it is meant to... my frustration is brewing so intensely I am about to implode. catch my drift...

Hope you are still around to read this

I think we have to be realistic here. A Mac version of SiteSpinner just isn't going to happen. This is a major rebuild for maybe 5% of potential SiteSpinner users. And what about Linux users? If I was VM, I would devote my limited resources to improving the lot of the 90% of PC users.

But having said that, all is not lost. It is possible to recover your project -- details here.

And don't write off using an emulator on your Mac -- others are running them successfully. Here are some old threads.

I've been using SS with Parallels on a MAC for two years. It's not as easy as it should be - maybe that's a MAC issue, maybe it's parallels. I don't know. Recently, I resurrected an old dual core HP laptop to run SS and some other windows only programs. Seemlessly running the program on the MAC would be the ideal. There are other programs, many free that run on both MAC and Linux, but they entail learning a new program. For the near term I will cripple along, as time goes by I will switch to another program unless SS comes out for MAC. I understand the business decision, but I am aware that other software makers have noted the burgeoning use of MACs since the Intel coup, MAC OS is still 10x more stable than Windows and so, I would prefer a native MAC version of SS. I'm not holding my breath.

My two cents worth... I love Mac and would rather be running SS on one vs. a Windows PC. Mac is the predominant platform in design and science... you'd think that it would be a long-term goal of VM... and they would capture 95% of the Mac market. SS is the ONLY reason I would keep my PC if I could afford to do what I wanted. The Mac OS is rock-solid stable - something I can't say about Windows.

Eyescream probably doesn't realize that it would take years to develop SS into a stable Mac version... from what I understand it is much harder to write code for Mac... the result, more feature-rich, intelligent and stable applications.

I find it interesting that Eyescream chose a Mac over PC for the new computer, knowing the importance of his/her website... but then if I could afford it, that's what I'd do.

If the hard drive from the dead PC is still around, Eyescream could move it into a used PC that works, or contact DriveSavers and recover the old hard drive onto a stand-alone drive so it could be used with any PC (at home or the library). DriveSavers doesn't need the broken computer, just the drive.

As far as Parallels - it does have issues with almost every application, per friends that use it.

Eyescream... Wal-Mart has cheap PC laptops. Consider a new cheap PC for your website work. In any case, good luck.

Scott

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and they would capture 95% of the Mac market

LOL - 95% of the MAC market is probably 30% of all computers; not much money in that. Well, maybe there is considering how Mac products are priced.

Forget Parallels. Go look at the VMWare site; they have a virtual version for the Mac called Fusion. VMWare has been doing virtualization for over 10 years.

Larryd, true about the tiny market share and huge price, but Macs are all around way more stable and way easier to use (my opinion).

Without Apple all of us would still be using DOS, widescreen would only be a dream, and ipods and touch screens would only be in the movies.

You and I will have to agree to disagree on the subject of Mac... and that's ok, I still think you are a super intelligent SS guru, and I respect your opinion on every subject - even Mac.

Let us Mac-heads have our dreams - we're nice people and we don't bite!!

Scott

I think Macs are fine computers. I've even used a few in the past. If I could afford it, I would still buy one (the model I was looking at runs $4500).

I never found Macs any more stable than Windows and do not buy into all that PR hype. And if it were not for Xerox, Apple would still be trying to push the Apple II (or even worse, the Lisa).