‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Jan. 2
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 2, 2009 at 12:34pm
“Zune chokes on Leap Year Bug: Microsoft’s Zune 30GB music player just wasn’t ready for a leap year. That’s what owners of the devices discovered Wednesday morning when they awoke to find their players frozen and unworkable.”—IDG News Service
“Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple/What’s it like working inside Apple when the MacWorld announcements are made? The man who set up many of its email systems and worked there 17 years explains the inside story of the preparation, the unveiling – and why it’s sometimes best to avoid Steve Jobs”—The Guardian
“JPG Magazine Goes Under: JPG Magazine never seemed quite the same after 8020 forced out founding editor Derek Powazek.”—Daring Fireball
“Apple’s New Cloud Offerings May Be (Mostly) Free: Backing up Seth Weintruab’s latest report from Computerworld regarding Apple’s soon-to-be-released web-based offerings, we have been able to confirm the upcoming push, as well as some new information about pricing.”—MacBlogz
“Analysis: Fear of infection/Apple shouldn’t lead us to believe that the Mac is impervious to viruses, as Mac OS X could be compromised at any time…”—MacUser UK
“Apple MacBook nano to debut on Monday? Apple’s Macworld expo will kick off on Monday, with Mac fans eagerly waiting to see what Phil Schiller unveils. Steve Jobs might not be present, but we reckon we know what the star of the show will be. Apple’s long-awaited ultra-portable. The MacBook nano.”—Electricpig
“”Apple’s next-gen Mac mini to get dual display support: Bringing its least expensive system up to par with features in the rest of its lineup, Apple is due to revamp the Mac mini with multiple video outputs, AppleInsider has learned.”—AppleInsider
“How to Unlock your iPhone 3G: The Dev Team has put out ‘yellowsn0w,’ the first official unlocking utility for iPhone 3Gs. Freeing yourself from AT&Ts shackles is but a few button-presses away. Here’s how you do it!”—APC
“Analysts’ Upgrades, Downgrades: Apple”—The Street
“Album sales plunge, digital downloads up: Music sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.”—Associated Press
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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