From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Get ready for iPhone 4 mania

by Nik Rawlinson on June 29, 2010 in Editorial

Forget the iPad hype – it’s the iPhone 4 that’s taking the world by storm… One of the perils of working on a magazine – any magazine – is that you eventually have to press print. There comes a time in every production cycle when you have to down tools and send your pages off [...]

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The Reality Distortion Field is back

by Kenny Hemphill on June 29, 2010 in Last Word

Steve Jobs returned to form at his WWDC keynote, with his Reality Distortion Field at full strength again for the launch of the iPhone 4. Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote speech last month was notable not just for the announcement of the iPhone 4, exciting though that was. And, although some of the stats he reeled [...]

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iBoom to iBust

by Howard Oakley on June 29, 2010 in Help
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Despite banks investing vast sums of money in computer-based models to increase their returns, they’re no more accurate than chicken entrails. By now, we’re getting used to wild swings in financial markets, such as the thousand-point collapse in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in a mere half hour on 7 May. On that occasion, blame [...]

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Apple needs to get hip to bring the kids on board

by Hollin Jones on June 29, 2010 in Audio
Hollin Jones

Macs are perfect for making music and even affordable ones have plenty of grunt, but is Apple missing a trick in the entry-level music market? When Apple began the transition to Intel processors, it became clear that the old Mac/PC divide was, from a technical point of view at least, going to get an awful [...]

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Processing: you can have too much of a good thing

by Dave Stevenson on June 29, 2010 in Photography
Dave Stevenson

The whole point of digital images is that they can be improved with post-processing, but over-manipulate them and you’ll risk becoming clichéd. I wrote a column a couple of months ago along the lines of the death of Photoshop. In it, I suggested that for many professionals, the days of a per-pixel photo editor were [...]

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The dirty dozen of video editing tools

by Will Head on June 29, 2010 in Video
Will Head

Here are 12 of the best free tools to get you out of sticky situations in which most video editors will find themselves from time to time. Video work means you’ll inevitably spend a lot of time inside your editing application, but there are times when you’ll need to work with files from third parties [...]

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