‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Nov. 18
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 18, 2008 at 6:02pm
Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone: Don’t hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe’s Flash software: Apple’s terms-of-service agreement prohibits it.”—Wired
“Deconstructing Google Mobile’s Voice Search: Andy Baio is trying to reverse-engineer how the Google Mobile app’s voice search works. (That the audio files being sent from the iPhone to Google’s servers are only 100-300 bytes helps explain why it’s so much faster than I expected it to be.”—Daring Fireball
“China Mobile Still in Talks With Apple Over IPhone: The world’s largest mobile phone service provider is still talking withApple about bringing the iPhone to China, a top executive said Tuesday.”—PC World
“NetRestore retired by Mike Bombich: Today, however, I stand at a precipice. NetRestore resides upon an extremely old base of code that has become increasingly more fragile and difficult to maintain. The strategy within NetRestore has also seen its day pass. Several years ago I scoped out dramatic changes for “NetRestore 4,” but in the years since it became clear that I simply didn’t have time to completely rewrite NetRestore from the ground up. I also feel relieved of this responsibility as the market for deployment tools has matured. In particular, I am impressed with Deploy Studio, a suite of tools that very closely resembles where I wanted to take NetRestore 4. So, today I am announcing the retirement of NetRestore.”—Bombich.com
“Apple brings HDCP to a new aluminum MacBook near you: High Definition Content Protection (HDCP)—you can’t live with it, but you practically can’t buy an HD-capable device anymore without it. While HDCP is typically used in devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, HDMI-enabled notebooks, and even the Apple TV in order to keep DRMed content encrypted between points A and B, it appears that Apple’s new aluminum MacBook (and presumably the MacBook Pro) are using it to protect iTunes Store media as well.”—ars technica
“Apple discontinues 23-inch Cinema Display: Apple officially discontinued its 23-inch Cinema Display on Tuesday, making way for recently announced 24-inch LED Cinema.”—Macworld
“25 years of Macintosh – the Apple Computer report card: In two short months, Apple’s Macintosh will turn 25 years old. My, how tempus doth fugit. To mark the awesome inevitability of January 24, 2009 following January 24, 1984 after exactly one quarter-century, tech pundits will bloviate, Apple-bashers will execrate, and Jobsian fanboyz will venerate the munificence that flows unabated from The Great Steve. The din will be deafening.”—Reg Hardware
“What’s ahead for Apple (AAPL), A Stock Worth Shorting?: I was looking over several charts this past weekend and I was shocked to recognize a chart formation playing out before my very eyes. I’ve seen this same formation a million times before, but I just didn’t want to believe it could be happening to my favorite stock, Apple (NASDAQ_AAPL). Some would call this denial.”—Market Oracle
“National Geographic to Bring Games to Mac, iPhone, Other Platforms: National Geographic on Tuesday said that it has formed an internal games division that will work with publishers and developers on games for consoles, computers, mobile devices, and online play.”—iPodObserver
“China Mobile to vie with Apple, Google apps stores: China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone service provider, plans to open its own mobile applications store similar to those run by Apple for the iPhone and Google for its Android operating system.”—IDG News Service
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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.
