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I am very pleased to announce today that Misha Sakellaropoulo — formerly of the MacNN Web site — has joined the MacMinute family as Executive Editor.

Iomega has posted an update for HipZip, the company’s digital audio player. The newest firmware version, 1.00454, has many fixes including increased sound quality in lower bit rates; playlist Manager update to allow you to highlight and play a song on the list; changes to the playlist order will remain even after the disk is ejected; support for low bit-rate WMA files (16 Kpbs); auto shutdown time change from 30 seconds to 2 minutes; and much more.

Apple has posted the English-North America version of Network Assistant 4.0.3. The update includes only the Network Assistant Startup extension, which resolves several bugs with the network management software. Apple has also posted the English-North American version of MacintoshManager 2.0.1, a new version of Apple’s workstation management technology. The update addresses a minor bug.

Apple is presently trading down $1.80 today, or 8.4 percent, as the tech-sector is getting battered following an earnings warning from Sun Microsystems. This marks the first time in more than two months that Apple has fallen below $20; during that same time it has traded as high $27.

The June 21, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone magazine features an article titled “Moby’s Laptop Studio” (p. 63) that describes the artist’s mobile set up. “I use two Apple [PowerBook] G4s — one for Pro Tools and one for Cubase,” Moby says. An additional, brief article describes how anyone can build their own mobile studio, and also recommends the PowerBook G4.