The MacDeskBlog

Well, I finally figured out why no one who registered on the blog since the migration to the new server ever submitted a comment. I just fixed it and reset and resent passwords to existing users. Sorry it took this long for me to realize I had a configuration error.

Eight years ago today, the Macintosh Desktop Picture Archive was born with a dozen pictures available in up to five sizes each. Several hundred people visited the site each day, which prompted me to start generating and posting two new pictures weekly. I picked up the MacDesktops.com domain several months later.

I had just recently picked up a magnificently huge 17″ display, and couldn’t find any desktop pictures which looked good on the monstrously large 1280×1024 screen. Things have changed a bit in the past eight years. I’m not quite sure, but I think that I was running a PowerMac 6100/60 back then, powering Photoshop 3.0. I had a wicked fast 128K ISDN line, which really sped posting of pictures.

These days, my screen has shrunk to 15.2″ physically and to 1280×854 logically. My processor has sped up from a 60MHz PowerPC 601 to a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4, running Photoshop 7.0 (I haven’t upgraded in a while). And MacDesktops has grown to 4877 pictures (and counting) in 15 sizes (not counting the portrait sizes which I no longer generate), consuming 23GB of disk space which are accessed by about 15 thousand unique visitors each day.