It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted anything and I figured that I would take the time to catch up a bit.

First off, the site has been online for one year now. We haven’t been with this domain for a year yet, that’s in February if I’m not mistaken, but I’ve been working on the site for a year. That’s a big accomplishment, I was excited and enthusiastic, but never quite thought that I would be renewing my hosting and domain name with such success and a loyal following as everyone has allowed. I truly appreciate it.

I have finally torn myself away from a few other ongoing projects, as well as my vacation, to finish the last of the site changes that I started at the beginning of December. The site has an updated favicon, new podcast icon, and the Downloads page is once again in business. I believe that about wraps up all of the stuff that I needed to get accomplished.

I am working on a podcast shortly, I should have lots of announcements and cool stuff this week, if everything pans out as I hope, so stay tuned. Of note is this next podcast I will be reviewing the first product that I haven’t personally purchased. I will be reviewing a piece of software because the company contacted me and requested that I review it, so this is a very big step for us!

Apple filed a bunch of financial reports because it’s the end of the year and it still looks like Jobs is in the clear. I have to wonder who is going down for this, surely there will have to be some criminal charges brought against someone, it wasn’t an accident that this was allowed to continue for nine years.

iTunes and iPods did very well this holiday season. My brother had several friends which received iPods this year and I know several others as well. This is easily confirmed by the fact that there were millions of hits on the Apple site on Christmas day because people were trying to download iTunes and setup their iPods. The iTunes store is still feeling the effects as downloads are downright slow as of this writing.

For those that remember, my Macbook battery issue has been resolved with a replacement. I bought this black Macbook within a week of the initial launch and started having issues about two months ago with a four month old battery. The computer would die with about one hour of battery life remaining (according to the OS), making me curse several times as I lost data on the shutdowns. There was a discussion in the Apple Discussions about this issue and several other users reported receiving a new battery fixed the issue. This was true for me as well.

Finally, I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and have a very safe New Years Eve as we look forward to 2007. May 2007 see the safe return of our troops.