Hawk Wings blogger gets real job!
I almost don’t believe it myself, but I have scored a proper job, posting about Macs for real money.
APC Magazine, one of Australia’s premier IT titles, has launched a swish, revamped web site 
featuring a number of individually themed blogs. And one of them is mine!
On X Factor , the site’s Apple blog, I’ll be able to get all the non-Mail.app stuff out of my system. There is an X Factor-specific RSS feed .
I have a much wider brief, allowing me to cover “hot new software and hardware, quality freeware and Mac OS X tips and tricks”. I am even allowed to have some opinions. Everything gets done over by a ferocious subeditor, so the quality will be better too.
The site soft-launched today, and you can already find posts there on Gmail tricks with Firefox , a great Take Control book that demystifies running Windows on your Mac with Bootcamp, Q or Parallel Workstation, finding Australian maps to use with Address Book and more.
Of course, it’s exciting for me. But it is also an innovative move in the Australian market.
X Factor is the first substantial and regular commitment to Apple by a mainstream IT publication, which like all the rest is otherwise dominated by Windows and Linux.
I like to think that it is a recognition of Apple’s growing market share and continuing importance as a trend-setter (Check out Mac OS X for a foretaste of Windows Vista, etc, etc). I hope too that it will make a few new friends for Apple as storm troopers from the Dark Side wander into X Factor by mistake.
Best of all, unlike some other offers I’ve had, Hawk Wings is able to continue as usual. This development brings you no relief from the usual torrent of posts about Mail.app, iCal and Address Book and email in general :)
Tags: apc magazine, Apple, Apple Mail, hawkwings, mail.app, personal, windows, X FactorRelated posts
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Congratulations on the job, good to hear the site will continue too :)
May 23rd, 2006 at 1:23 am
Congrats! Nothing beats getting a job doing what you already love. You deserve it! :)
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:29 am
I’m feeling a rush of jealousy coming up….
Congrats from here as well, hope you don’t get torn between two blogs ;-)
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:38 am
Glad to hear of your success. Also glad to hear Hawk Wings will continue. Being so tightly focussed on Mail, iCal and Address Book makes it unique, and a tremendously useful and definitive resource.
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:55 am
Congratulations. I am happy to hear that Hawkwings will continue.. Phew!
May 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 am
Congratulations! Just make sure you don’t forget about Hawk Wings :)
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:51 am
Congrats!
(I wish I could think of something else to say, so this isn’t so “me-too”ish, but I can’t :))
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:43 am
Thanks for the good wishes, guys. Much appreciated :)
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Tim, you surely deserve it! Hawk Wings is awesome and I know you will be doing a great job now at X Factor.
I wish you the best of luck there mate.
Cheers!
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Congrats from a semi-regular reader. :)
May 24th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Congratulations Tim! I’m wishing you luck at your new post and also with maintaining Hawk Wings. I’m sure you’ll do your best.
May 24th, 2006 at 4:33 am
Congratulations!!
May 24th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Hay there, congratulations on your new gig. I too am glad that Hawk Wings will still be here it’s such a great blog, well done and congratulations again.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Congrats! One question: Is there an RSS feed available of your posts there? The only RSS feed I can find includes your posts — but also includes all the other bloggers’, and I don’t need that many updates on Vista. :)
May 25th, 2006 at 2:18 am
hehehe… Yes, quite.
There is an X Factor specific feed
but it’s hard to find.
I suspect a conspiracy :)
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
How To Start A Blog…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…