Adam Banks

Latest Issue: June 2013

by Adam Banks on 9 May 2013 in New issue
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Magazines on the iPad. Three years ago, it seemed like a no-brainer. Designers would use simple tools to turn pages for print into pages on screen. Apple would make it easy to sell them as apps. Freed from the costs of printing and distribution, everyone could be a publisher. An industry would be transformed.

Yet here we are in 2013, and digital publishing is still complicated and expensive. There’s no credible software for creating magazine apps from scratch, and dozens of competing systems for generating them from page layouts created using existing desktop publishing packages. Since most of them charge hefty fees to actually publish your app, you’ll want to choose carefully. But where do you start?

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The “iWatch”: an artist’s impression

by Adam Banks on 14 March 2013 in Editorial

If Apple is really working on a smart watch, what will it be like? The April 2013 issue of MacUser magazine, on sale today, has a possible answer. In collaboration with well known 3D artist Martin Hajek, MacUser has conceived a realistic watch product based on Apple’s current design language and technology constraints. The result [...]

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MacUser selected as one of ten ‘Covers of the Century’

by Adam Banks on 26 February 2013 in News
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MacUser’s February 2012 issue “How evil is Apple?” has been nominated as one of the ten best magazine covers of the past century by the PPA, the UK’s trade association for periodical publishers. The Covers of the Century, selected by judges from over 100 chosen by publishing companies to represent their best work, were revealed [...]

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Thoughts on censorship

by Adam Banks on 28 January 2013 in Comment

In response to Apple’s removal of the 500px app from the App Store on the grounds that some content made available by users on the 500px service was “pornographic”, and questions about the future of Twitter’s Vine video-sharing app, we repost this piece from 2010 by our Editor in Chief on Apple’s approach to censorship. [...]

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Apple home page replaced by tribute on anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death

by Adam Banks on 5 October 2012 in News

Apple has posted a brief tribute to Steve Jobs, who died a year ago today, on its home page at apple.com. The video, which features photos of Jobs with Apple products and highlights the former CEO’s humour, is followed by an open letter from current CEO Tim Cook, who invites people to “reflect on his [...]

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The incredibly long and amazingly silly story of the #TwitterJokeTrial

by Adam Banks on 31 August 2012 in Features

On 27 July 2012, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales handed down the final judgment in what had become known as the Twitter Joke Trial. Considering that this was the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year process, the assembled crowd didn’t get much of a show. It took only a few minutes for Paul Chambers [...]

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