From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Genuine replies or just lies?

by Nik Rawlinson on May 28, 2010 in Editorial

Jobs has answered some emails, but how can we tell the bona fide ones? Steve Jobs has found the send button. Apparently. More and more people who send him a note are getting replies, but do you think it’s actually him? Let’s consider the evidence. For starters, the address: sjobs@apple.com. Can you imagine how much [...]

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Keeping an open mind

by Kenny Hemphill on May 28, 2010 in Apple software

Flash, as Steve Jobs is eager to remind us, is clearly not an open standard, despite Adobe’s very public claims to the contrary… The relationship between Apple and Adobe is cooling faster than a mid-May evening in the Cairngorms. And it seems neither party is in the mood to warm things up. Just in case [...]

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The big read

by Howard Oakley on May 28, 2010 in Help

Before electronic books can take off, a universal format that can be read on different devices needs to be agreed and implemented. It seemed a simple enough request: a well-illustrated history of painting that I can browse on both Mac and iPad. There’s no shortage of excellent printed books that would fit the bill, but [...]

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Why the iPad isn’t a great music production device… yet

by Hollin Jones on May 28, 2010 in Audio

Apple’s new baby has a lot of potential, but for some musicians,  is hamstrung by lack of hardware input, at least for now. Apparently, Apple has released something called the iPad, not that I’d heard about it. Okay that’s not entirely true, we’ve all been saturated with news, reviews and opinions about it for weeks [...]

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Is the Digital Economy Bill wrong for rights?

by Dave Stevenson on May 28, 2010 in Photography

Copyright is a complex issue, which is why it’s so galling that the Digital Economy Bill was passed by MPs with little understanding of it… If there is a sight more depressing in modern political history than watching 40 Members of Parliament debate the Digital Economy Bill on its second reading in the House of [...]

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Create a green screen for adding special effects to your videos

by Will Head on May 28, 2010 in Video

Once the preserve of blockbuster movies, green screens are becoming an increasingly popular tool. Here’s how to set up your own. Green screen effects may have once been the preserve of big-budget Hollywood movies, but chroma key, as it’s also known, is increasingly cropping up in places you wouldn’t expect to see it. Take a [...]

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