Adam Banks

Militantly neutral

by Adam Banks on 1 April 2011 in Editorial

Net neutrality isn’t a principle, it’s a tautology. A neutrally carried internet is, well, the internet. Anything else is something else. Over the history of computing, short as it is, there’ve been many visions of how information would be distributed among the communities, offices or homes that might contain a computer. Who exactly would own [...]

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First sight of 4D printing technology

by Adam Banks on 1 April 2011 in News

A Taiwanese OEM (original equipment manufacturer) may have designed the first 4D printer. Leaked pictures, which were briefly posted on a tech blog before being taken down apparently in response to pressure from the company, show a prototype roughly the size of a washing machine, with features reminiscent of the current generation of 3D printers. [...]

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Font woes in Mac OS X 10.6.7 update

by Adam Banks on 29 March 2011 in News

Users have reported broad and reproducible issues with font rendering after installing Mac OS X 10.6.7, the most recent update to the Mac operating system. In attempting to address potential security weaknesses, Apple seems to have broken the way certain fonts are encoded. User Kurt Lang, posting on Apple’s support forum, identified a specific problem [...]

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Bleeding edge liberals

by Adam Banks on 18 March 2011 in Editorial

It’s often said that Steve Jobs is the greatest orator in the computer industry, and while that’s a bit like being the least gaffe-prone Coalition minister or the plumpest Pussycat Doll, it is, nonetheless, both true and important. I remember when Gil Amelio was the boss of Apple and, one year, probably 1997, we arrived [...]

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Zinio battles server crash

by Adam Banks on 5 March 2011 in News

Online newsstand Zinio, which makes magazines including MacUser available on screen to digital subscribers via web browsers and iOS devices, has announced it’s nearing a resolution to the technical breakdown that has shut out users from all of its services for several days. The company says it was not hacked and no customer data has [...]

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It’s not the Messiah, it’s an interesting new publishing medium

by Adam Banks on 4 March 2011 in Editorial

Ever since the first rumours that Apple might launch a tablet computer, the publishing world has been obsessed with the idea that this might be the new way to read magazines and newspapers that people had been waiting for. Obviously readers must be waiting for something, because they weren’t buying as many magazines and newspapers. [...]

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