Hadfield Space Oddity recorded on iPad using Garageband

by Kenny Hemphill on 14 May 2013 in News

International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield’s video of Space Oddity was recorded on an iPad using Garageband, according to his son Evan. In a discussion on Reddit, where the idea for the song originated, Evan Hadfield confirmed that his dad had recorded the vocal in space using his iPad. Hadfield, who is credited with producing [...]

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Daft Punk album available to stream in full on iTunes Store

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2013 in News

The long-awaited new album from French duo Daft Punk is now available to stream on the iTunes Store. The album, Random Access Memories, is due for release on 21 May and can be pre-ordered for £8.99. The full, 74-minute album, which includes the current UK number one single Get Lucky, is available to listen to [...]

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Apple radio service held up over Sony licensing dispute

by Kenny Hemphill on 10 May 2013 in News

Apple’s long-rumoured streaming music service, dubbed iRadio, has been delayed due to Apple’s inability to reach agreement over licensing terms with Sony Music, according to the Financial Times (registration required). Agreement has been reached with Universal and is close with Warner, said the FT, but negotiations with Sony are protracted. Apple opened its negotiations with [...]

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Latest Issue: June 2013

by Adam Banks on 9 May 2013 in New issue
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Magazines on the iPad. Three years ago, it seemed like a no-brainer. Designers would use simple tools to turn pages for print into pages on screen. Apple would make it easy to sell them as apps. Freed from the costs of printing and distribution, everyone could be a publisher. An industry would be transformed.

Yet here we are in 2013, and digital publishing is still complicated and expensive. There’s no credible software for creating magazine apps from scratch, and dozens of competing systems for generating them from page layouts created using existing desktop publishing packages. Since most of them charge hefty fees to actually publish your app, you’ll want to choose carefully. But where do you start?

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Bill Gates: iPad users are ‘frustrated’

by Kenny Hemphill on 7 May 2013 in News

iPad users are ‘frustrated’ because ‘They can’t type. They can’t create documents,’ according to Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates. And Android users are equally fed-up with having to type on-screen. That’s why, said Gates in an interview with CNBC ‘we’re providing them something with the benefits they’ve seen that has made that a big category but [...]

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Adobe kills Creative Suite and puts apps exclusively in cloud

by Kenny Hemphill on 6 May 2013 in News

Adobe has announced that the current version of Creative Suite, CS6, will be the last. It said that it will continue to release maintenance updates, but that there will be no CS7 nor feature updates for CS6. At the opening of its Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, the company said that from now on [...]

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