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New iPad mag goes live

by Adam Banks on July 5, 2011 in News

In a move shamelessly plugged on the website of its sister magazine MacUser, Dennis Publishing has launched Padder, a new magazine on and about the iPad. Edited by long-time MacUser contributor Chris Brennan, the new mag has been designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad and features app and accessory reviews, how-tos, witty [...]

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Apple finally comes out fighting in Lodsys patent claim

by Adam Banks on May 23, 2011 in Analysis

After an anxious week of speculation, Apple has responded to the demands sent by patent holder Lodsys to a number of iOS app developers. Lodsys claimed that third-party apps featuring in-app purchases infringed its patent on “Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network” (US 7222078) and asked for [...]

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Tests show iMac hard disk performance can vary by 100%

by Adam Banks on May 11, 2011 in Analysis

Apple has confirmed that it reserves the right to change the supplier and specification of the hard drives built into the latest iMac models, announced last week. In MacUser’s tests, undocumented variations between the drives fitted in different models resulted in transfer speeds ranging from 76 to 164 megabytes per second (MB/sec), making the quickest [...]

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‘Mac Security’ Trojan adds to Apple malware worries, but not much

by Adam Banks on May 6, 2011 in Analysis

While Windows PCs are plagued with myriad varieties of malware, making anti-virus protection essential, Apple users have traditionally had very little to worry about. Recent reports of a Trojan calling itself Mac Defender have provoked headlines crowing about Apple users no longer being immune to the threats faced by everyone else, but this isn’t the [...]

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Adobe ignores the moral of its own story at its peril

by Adam Banks on May 3, 2011 in Analysis
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By Ian Betteridge Once upon a time, there was a software company called Quark. Quark had, through a combination of smart engineering and aggressive business practices, become the dominant player in the nascent field of desktop publishing. If you were a pro publisher, you used QuarkXPress. The only real alternative – Adobe’s PageMaker – was [...]

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Publishing enters a new Dark Age

by Adam Banks on April 29, 2011 in Editorial

A quarter of a century ago, the publishing industry was revolutionised. The Mac, the laser printer and Aldus PageMaker made what previously required huge investment available to almost anyone. For publishing houses, it meant dramatic reductions in cost and increases in flexibility. For the rest of us, it meant we could make magazines just like [...]

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