The new “Your Mac Life” episode looks at at “The Year of Apple” — the 2011 highs and lows of our favorite tech company.

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

You can join one of the two Chat Rooms that run during the live show — on the live video site or on the dedicated IRC Server at irc.chat-solutions.org in the #yourmaclife Channel.