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Drawing lots: can the iPad replace the designer’s sketchbook?

by Keith Martin on 12 January 2011 in Design for Print
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If you’re a designer, the odds are high that you use a sketchbook. If you don’t, you should. Sure, you can use your Mac to throw together all sorts of ideas, but there are two important reasons why Illustrator, Photoshop and whichever desktop publishing application you favour really won’t cut it when it comes to brainstorming.

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When money talks: turning phones into virtual wallets

by Alex Watson on 10 January 2011 in Mac to the future
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In the three years since I’ve had my iPhone, I’ve left home without it only once. During that period, I’ve even taken a sabbatical from work and trekked around South-West China, and it only left my side on one day. It’s as important to have with me as my house keys and wallet – simply too useful to do without.

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Keep talking the tablets

by Howard Oakley on 7 January 2011 in Help
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Books such as Archie Miles’ gorgeous Silva: The Tree In Britain, a sumptuously illustrated account of trees and woodland in the UK, bear witness to the fact that the right balance can be struck between presentation and content, form and function, or process and purpose. Even its content finds a sweet spot between accessibility and sophistication, making it as valuable on the proverbial coffee table as it is in the academic’s library.

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Is it game on for Apple?

by Kenny Hemphill on 6 January 2011 in Last Word
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As you can see from our Predictions feature (see p52), 2011 is set to be an exciting year for Mac users. Apple, of course, is already looking way beyond 2011 in order to determine how it can consolidate on the incredible success it has enjoyed in the past few years and build an even bigger, better company.

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Brought to you by the letter ‘i’

by Nik Rawlinson on 5 January 2011 in Editorial
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Everything – and nothing – has changed in seven years. The first editorial I ever wrote for MacUser, back in the autumn of 2003, didn’t include any words that featured the letter ‘i’. I wanted to make the point that Apple’s i-devices weren’t the be-all and end-all of the company.

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That syncing feeling: iWork’s mobile shortcomings

by Tom Gorham on 29 December 2010 in iWork

It’s not as if we needed confirmation that we’re doing more and more of our work outside office hours, but a survey I noticed this week put it in hard figures: apparently nearly 50% of Britons take work from the office away with them at weekends.

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