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On Kirkville, I’ve strived to provide interesting and useful content, whether it’s about iTunes or the Grateful Dead, classical music or theater, Apple products, books, photography, and more.

As earning money from journalism becomes increasingly difficult, freelancers like myself need to explore new avenues of funding, without annoying readers with ads. I have long eschewed intrusive advertising, relying on some Amazon ads, and the occasional sponsorship.

I’m asking you to put your hands in your virtual pockets and contribute a small monthly sum to support Kirkville, and ensure that I can keep providing interesting articles, reviews, and other interesting content.

If you prefer to make a one-off donation, you can use this PayPal link. (The PayPal account is under my business’s name, Eyes of the World Limited.)

Thanks in advance to all my loyal readers.

About a month ago, I let you all know that I was changing the domain of this website. I acquired kirkville.com, which makes the branding of this site a bit more logical (and it’s easier to remember how to spell).

I’ll repeat what I wrote in last month’s article:

Here’s what will change. If you have any bookmarks to this site, they’ll get redirected to the new domain when I make the switch. I’ll leave the redirection on for at least a year, but it’s a good idea to update your bookmarks after the change is made.

The RSS feed will change, but the same redirection will be in place. Again, it’s best to update your RSS reader to ensure that you don’t miss out on anything.

If you’re a subscriber to my weekly newsletter, nothing changes. If you subscribe to updates on the site via WordPress, they’ll change transparently.

If you encounter any problems, let me know.

Thanks for reading Kirkville!

2016 was another busy year for Kirkville. With 2.8 million page views and 2 million unique visitors, a lot of people came to the site to read about Apple’s latest versions of macOS, iOS, and iTunes. Page views were down a bit from 2015 (3 million), mainly because I moved in the middle of the year, and needed to spend a lot of time packing, then unpacking.

This years most five most popular articles were:

• How to Play FLAC or Other Lossless Audio Files in iTunes
• How to Find the Shuffle and Repeat Buttons in the iOS 10 Music App
• How To: Rebuild Your iTunes Library
• How to Sort Songs in the iOS 10 Music App by Title
• How Accurate is the Apple Watch as a Fitness Tracker?

While my writings about books, music, and theater didn’t draw anywhere near the same numbers, they also proved relatively popular in 2016, particularly my reviews of Shakespeare plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

I hope you’ve appreciated the wide range of topics I cover, from Macs to music, from iTunes to iOS, and, now, even watches. I plan to continue along the same eclectic path in the new year, focusing mainly on technology, but also writing about my interests. Thanks very much for reading, and thanks to all the polite commenters who have turned many of these articles into conversations.

Thank you also for supporting Kirkville through my affiliate links for Amazon, Take Control Books, and other vendors. It doesn’t cost you anything to use these links, and I get a small percentage of what you spend, which helps me be able to afford to devote time to writing for this site.

As mentioned recently, I’ll be changing the domain of this site from kirkville.com to kirkville.com. I’ll be making the change in the next few days. Initially, you won’t see anything different, since old links will redirect to the new site, but I’ll remind you several times to change your bookmarks or RSS feeds to the new domain.

In the near future – hopefully around January 1, 2017 – I’ll be changing the domain for this website. I bought the domain kirkville.com, in order to “simplify my branding.” Let’s be honest, it’s a lot easier to remember “kirkville” than it is to remember how “mcelhearn” is spelled. So I’ll be switching to that domain soon. If you click on the link above, it should take you to this site now, since I’ve set up redirection in the interim.

Here’s what will change. If you have any bookmarks to this site, they’ll get redirected to the new domain when I make the switch. I’ll leave the redirection on for at least a year, but it’s a good idea to update your bookmarks after the change is made.

The RSS feed will change, but the same redirection will be in place. Again, it’s best to update your RSS reader to ensure that you don’t miss out on anything.

If you’re a subscriber to my weekly newsletter, nothing changes. If you subscribe to updates on the site via WordPress, they’ll change transparently.

So, for now, there’s nothing to do, and I’ll post another warning before I make the change. I’ll then provide more complete instructions when the change goes live.

Thanks for reading Kirkville!

As we reach the end of 2015, it’s time to take a look at how the year has been. Here on Kirkville, it’s been a busy year. This website saw over 3 million page views, and 2.1 million visitors (stats from WordPress’s Jetpack plugin).

And what were the most popular articles of the year? Of the 2,550 articles on this site (759 published in 2015), here’s the top dozen for this year:

Thanks to everyone who has visited Kirkville, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

I’m moving Kirkville to a new server this weekend. If you notice any disruptions, please be patient. Things should go smoothly, but you never know with this type of migration.

Thanks!!!

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