The Macintosh iLife ’08

Jim Heid

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Copyright © 2008 by Jim Heid

Portions originally appeared in Macworld magazine, ©Mac Publishing LLC. Macintosh and iPod product photography courtesy Apple, Inc.

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Dedication

For Maryellen,

for my mother,

and in loving memory

of George Heid, my dad.

A master of the analog

hub, he would have

loved this stuff.

George Heid (right), recording direct to disc on a moving train, in the early 1950s.