Copyright

The Macintosh iLife '06

Jim Heid

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Published by Peachpit Press in association with Avondale Media.

Copyright © 2006 by Jim Heid

Editor: Barbara Assadi, BayCreative
Book Design and Illustration: Arne Hurty, BayCreative
Compositor and Layout Design: Jonathan Woolson, think play design
Production Coordinator: Myrna Vladic, Silver Mesa Press
Indexer: FireCrystal Communications
Cover design: Arne Hurty, BayCreative

Portions originally appeared in Macworld magazine, © Mac Publishing LLC.

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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.