Nik Rawlinson

Time to bury the hatchet

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

Apple and Adobe should come to a truce in the whole Flash débacle. Adobe and Apple are not best of friends. Not right now, anyhow. That’s a shame, really, as both have great news to trumpet: for Apple, the iPad; for Adobe, Creative Suite 5. Both stellar products that are rightly garnering acres of print [...]

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MacUser hits the big time

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 May 2010 in Editorial

As of now, we’re 30% bigger to bring you even more Mac coverage – enjoy! Pinch us. We’re thicker. After months of planning, commissioning, writing and editing, we’re proud to bring you the first of our bigger issues of MacUser, now 30% larger at the same price as before. Excuse me the rah-rah-rahs just this [...]

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Bargain PCs? What a setup!

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

PCs are much cheaper than Macs, but there’s a reason for that… I helped set up my neighbour’s new PC last night. And I must admit that the whole thing was quite an eye-opener. Said neighbour, who we’ll call Alan (for that is not his name) had invested in a Windows 7 notebook. Very smart, [...]

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Banning apps is not the solution

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

But will Apple learn a moral lesson over its wobbly approval process? There’s a lot of chatter right now about Apple’s decision to delete 5000-odd applications from iTunes App Store. Its grounds? Taste and decency. Talk about horses, doors and bolting. The apps in question largely revolved around body parts and minimal clothing and Apple [...]

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Apple’s iPad shows its class

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

After all the hype the iPad is here, but is it really a new class of device? The iPad is great, but it was set up to fail. The media hype that preceded its announcement was so great that no product, whatever it was and whatever it did, could ever hope to live up to [...]

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Apple cordially invites you to…

by Nik Rawlinson on 13 May 2010 in Editorial

The invitations are out, but could Apple be sending coded messages? Apple has an eye for detail. Look at MagSafe. Such a simple idea, yet so brilliant. A magnetised power adaptor that’ll stop your MacBook crashing to the floor. Smart. Look at all the hidden features in Mac OS X, like the ability to flick [...]

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