‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Sept. 5
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Sep 5, 2008 at 4:00pm
“Shoe Circus: The first Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates commercial for Microsoft. Not a bad skit, but I’m not sure how this does anything for the Microsoft brand. Makes Gates seem cool, though.”—Daring Fireball
“Apple Store Melbourne unfair for disenfranchised consumers?: After the much hyped launch of its two Sydney stores earlier this year, Apple has finally announced the opening of its first Melbourne store at the giant Chadstone Shopping Centre. The new Apple Store, which will open its doors on Saturday September 13, will unfortunately be a difficult trek for many Melbourne residents.”—IT Wire
“Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: the future of 64-bit apps: Snow Leopard’s across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will make more memory available and boost performance. However, Apple will also need to manage its 64-bit lead and organize its developers. Here’s why.”—AppleInsider
“Apple Nixes ‘Pull My Finger’ App, Even Though It’s A Gas: Apple’s iPhone Apps Store approval process clearly has some bugs to work out. Apps will be approved, and then pulled. Some bad apps remain in the store, while others aren’t approved at all. The latest casualty is an application that, well, I probably shouldn’t publish what it does here in the first paragraph, but Beavis and Butt-head would have loved”—InformationWeek
“Soon a price cut on the iMacs?: The Jon4lakers.com site put on line this capture which they say came from the Apple Intranet.”—HardMac
“The Apple Impact: beleaguered Dell to sell factories in a cost cutting move: News on Wall Street today hints that Dell Inc. the second largest PC manufacturer is planning to sell its worldwide manufacturing plants within the next 18 months in an effort to cut costs.”—Switch to a Mac
“Microsoft Ads: First Phase To ‘Engage Consumers, Spark Conversation’ : So the tech and geek crowd is a little underwhelmed by the new $300 million Microsoft advertising campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld that kicked off tonight. It’s mostly content free, with just one mention of Microsoft near the end. It’s a far cry from the brilliant Microsoft v. mac ads that Apple has run over the years.”—TechCrunch
“Samsung’s X360: Lighter than air—but not thinner: When Samsung Electronics unveiled its new X360 laptop at the IFA electronics show in Berlin last week it made a big deal of the machine being lighter than Apple’s Macbook Air.”—IDG News Service
“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.”—InfoWorld
“Google sees new browser as defensive move: Google launched its web browser in part to stop its rival, Microsoft, from “Balkanising” the internet by carving it up in ways that favoured its own services, the internet company’s chief executive officer said on Wednesday.”—Financial Times
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 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.
