The SolidSmack Year-end Smacktastic Smack Up

It’s finally over. We can take off the gas masks, stuff the confetti back in our shirts and look forward to a new year of sweet product design, cool technology, SolidWorks and other cad-related goodness.

Not that we didn’t have some great fun with some great topics over the past year. In fact, a tiny person who just threw champagne in my face, said many posts were quite superb, while a few made him cover his eyes to keep them from popping out their sockets. Goal achieved, I say. Here’s what we’ve got.

Top 10 Post

We talked a lot about Mac stuff last year and for good reason. Five of the top ten posts have something to do with Mac or the iPhone. The rest have to do with SolidWorks 2010 and hardware. You all apparently have an obsession. Here are the top ten posts from 2009.

• ‘Fairly’ Smooth Surfaces in SolidWorks: How to Create the 3G iPhone *Updated*
• Smack me Sideways. The Complete iPhone. Modeled in SolidWorks, Rendered With Hypershot [Download]
• Eeny, Meeny, What Comes Next? High End CAD on OS X.
• SolidWorks on Mac: CEO Speaks Out. You Have Your Say. {Poll}
• Looking for the Perfect Mobile Workstation? Check This Out.
• General Session: Day 3 – ProtoType This and SolidWorks 2010
• SolidWorks 2010 Review. A Big, Fat Taste of the Best, New Features.
• The iPhone 3G Model, Take 2. Plus Surfacing Resources and Coolness from Mark Biasotti
• SolidWorks Tutorial: Create a Part, Assembly and Drawing in One Fell Swoop
• Thatza Spicy GPU! New NVIDIA Quadro FX Graphics Cards. Best One for SolidWorks?

And the rest…

2500+ Subscribers – SolidSmack RSS/email subscriptions crossed the 1200 mark in early 2009 and crossed the 2500 threshold in December.
33.2 posts per month – I can hardly believe that, but we kept pumping out the posts and had even more we didn’t get to.
Over 1000 posts – 1029 posts, since the site started, to be exact. 377 in 2009 alone. I missed the 1000 mark and would have celebrated. We’ll have to wait for post number 10,000 now.
Site Makeover – We have this fancy new look and it’s going to become newer, and better in the near future.
More coverage – We started covering more topics, more events and still managed not to get into any trouble or cause fires or hysteria.
Posterous – The SolidSmack Posterous is supplementing and adding even more interesting content to the mix.
Facebook – We launched the SolidSmack Facebook Fanpage just a short time ago and it’s already passed 230 fans!
Twitter – We continue to add value to the Twittershpere, or our perception of value. Follow SolidSmack on Twitter.

You all are awesome. Thanks for having fun and hanging out on SolidSmack whether it be for pure inanity or to find out something cool. As always, your comments and input are welcome and I’d love to know what you’d like to see more of, less of or how everything could generally be better. Thanks again and have a rockin’ smacktastic new year.

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