Spring is finally here, and we're focused on providing fresh and comprehensive content over at MacFixIt.com. We've been hard at work reorganizing several aspects of how we create articles, and are finally starting to see the fruits of that labor, with more posts and new features.

One of the things we've been working hard on is finding new ways we can help our readers with our coverage. We've added a new contributor with a great Mac background, including working in Apple's own retail stores, and are very happy to have him on board. We've also started to add to our regular publication schedule, and will start some new items soon. You'll be seeing more articles covering tutorials, tips & tricks, and answers to reader questions in the coming weeks.

As you may have noticed, we are making headway on issues that have been affecting our services for quite some time. Our engineers have been working long and hard to repair the many things you've pointed out.

Many of you have asked for a more detailed explanation of what's been going on with VersionTracker. In a nutshell, we've been working to combine two catalogs containing hundreds of thousands of products, and all the information that goes with them. The result of this work is the most extensive software catalog on the planet.

As we welcome a new president, it's hard not to think about the broad change that is happening across the country. Presidential change, cultural change and economic change, as well as some changes that are starting to happen in our own more familiar realm.

The beginning of the year saw the announcement that Apple would be leaving Macworld, accompanied by the absence of Steve Jobs from the final keynote. We quickly learned the reasons behind his absence, and wish him nothing but the best and hope for a restful recovery. It is inevitable that Steve will someday take his leave of Apple, and while that is sometimes difficult to accept, we're confident that the culture that Apple has created around innovation will help drive the company forward.

It has been a rough year. As several of you know, we've been trying to tackle a lot of challenges here at VersionTracker. We set out to provide the best and most extensive software resource, and we're always trying to improve our service, but recently I feel like we have let you down.

First, I need to let you know that for some of the issues we're seeing, there may not be a simple solution. The nature and magnitude of the work we've done is at the core of why you're seeing so many problems, and while we're working on all of them, we can't work on all of them at the same time.