I just wanted to say Thank You so much for those that took the time to complete the site survey. The results confirmed many of the things I had in my own head about the site and also the fact I hadn't communicated other things clearly.

It also pointed out the dilemma web designers face daily...more news/less clutter...more functionality/simplified pages...more news/less text....etc etc....you get what I mean? I've always said that NZMac.com is a work in progress and 5 years on, that's still the case....but I thought I would share the plan for this year and how your feedback helped.

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There are two words that for me will forever sum up 2007 on the NZMac.com website. I know you're probably expecting me to say something like iPhone and Leopard, but the two words I'm about to use couldn't be any further from the Mac or Apple-related field. 2007 will always be about two words I never expected to utter on this site - Russian Porn!

It has been a heck of a year (more on the porn later) and an amazing struggle financially, with NZMac.com never coming closer to being closed down than

It's not been a great time for NZMac.com over the past month or so. More often than not, you've experienced a message that the site is offline. It's also meant hours of work, lack of sleep (Palmerston North is very quiet at 3am by the way) and new additional costs for me in order to get the site back up and running to the standard that I set for myself and that is required for site users. Things are going really well with the move to a Virtual Private Server system, but it's not all over in

Completely ignoring the launch of the New Zealand iTunes Store and online Apple store for a moment...2006 was an impressive year for Apple. With the smooth launch and transition to Intel Macs (it seems so much longer than 12 months ago that the first was released) and the promotion by Apple of products such as Parallels on your Mac, Apple is (as ever) evolving beautifully.

Then factor into the mix local news in the December launch of an iTunes Store (finally!), lower prices than we had