‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Sept. 3
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Sep 3, 2008 at 12:30pm
“Number of students with Apple computers rises to 40 percent: This year 60 percent of the first-year class brought Apple computers to school, bringing the school total to 40 percent Apple and 60 percent computers with Windows based operating system, a Library and Technology Services staff member said.”—The Justice
“There.com to add Mac support and Facebook plug-in: The virtual world, There.com, appears ready to reach for some new and broad audiences, announcing Tuesday night that it would finally be offering support for Mac OS X, as well as a new Facebook plug-in and an instant message application that can communicate directly with anyone on the Internet.”—CNET
“iPhone’s remote wiping may help crooks cover tracks: Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned.”—ZDNet
“Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and the great PC swindle: Snow Leopard’s across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It also exposes a great PC swindle and highlights Apple’s lead in 64-bit computing. Here’s why.”—Roughly Drafted Magazine
“Developers should skip Google’s Chrome, and jump straight to WebKit: For Web applications, the framework’s the thing, and the browser framework that will win the day is WebKit”—Tom Yager’s Weblog
“Steve Wozniak an advocate of iPhone hacking: Having reportedly cut in line to buy the iPhone 3G on the device’s launch day, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has now apparently gone one better and “pwned” his iPhone . Pwning allows full read/write filesystem access and installation of unofficial third party applications the iPhone 3G.”—iPhone Atlas
“iPhone to squash Blackberry in law firms: legal IT boss/Apple’s iPhone could supplant the BlackBerry as handset of choice among lawyers, according to the IT general manager of a major law firm. In fact, at this particular firm the desire for BlackBerrys has already been supplanted by iPhone lust.”—IT Wire
“Saving The Consumer Electronics World: Apple Reinvents The iPod” [“Apple’s challenge is that its ‘PC’ and smartphone have much more competition than the iPod ever had. Apple’s best days may be in the rear view mirror.”]—24/7 Wall Street
“RBC says sub-$100 ‘iPod phone’ market up for Apple’s taking: Apple could announce sales of more than 4 million 3G iPhones at its media event next week, according to investment bank RBC Capital Markets, which also suggests the company may be looking into a low cost “iPod phone” to build on its momentum.”—AppleInsider
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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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