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Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
Today marks the start of 2013, and as a magaziner, I’m excited. As you all know, even though I do occasionally include a dose of print love on this site, my focus here has always been and continues to be digital. As a Canadian living in Japan, it’s thanks to the iPad and the transition [...]
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This article was posted on January 1, 2013 under the category Commentary, Print, and covers the following topics: 2013, Death of Print, Distribution, Newsweek, Print vs. Digital, The New Yorker
For the past couple of weeks I haven’t been able to to download any issues of Entertainment Weekly on iPad, despite the fact that I have a digital subscription. I then realized that I wasn’t getting any new issue of TIME either. I open the app, I get error messages about not being able to [...]
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This article was posted on October 20, 2012 under the category Commentary, News, and covers the following topics: App, Entertainment Weekly, iOS 6, iPad, Time, Time Inc.
A funny thing happened recently: I like reading newspapers again. I recently reviewed the PressReader app, which I thought did a good job of giving you access to digital scans of newspapers from around the world. Over the years, I’ve been quite vocal — and critical — about magazines that make it to digital as [...]
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This article was posted on June 10, 2012 under the category Commentary, Print, and covers the following topics: App, iPad, iPhone, National Post, Newspapers, PressReader, The Globe and Mail
The big promise of Newsstand was that new issues would be downloaded in the background, ready to be read when you turn your iPad on. Lots of titles are now included as part of Newsstand, but so far, I’ve yet to ever see any magazine that is built on the Adobe DPS tools automatically download [...]
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This article was posted on February 9, 2012 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Adobe, Adobe DPS, App, Bloomberg Businessweek, Conde Nast, GQ, iPad, Newsweek, SPIN Play, Subscriptions, The New Yorker, Wired, Wired UK
This is a follow-up to what I posted last week about having problems downloading the new issue of Wired. Please note that I don’t write this to troll anyone, but I want this information to be out on the web for anyone else who might encounter the same problem. To quickly recap, when I saw the [...]
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This article was posted on December 6, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, iPad, Troubleshooting, Wired
What is it with Conde Nast and its apps on iPad? First it was The New Yorker that was constantly giving me a headache when trying to download new issues — something that has, mostly, been rectified since the latest app update — and now it’s Wired. I’ve been trying to download the new issue [...]
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This article was posted on December 2, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, Downloads, iPad, Problems, The New Yorker, Wired
I think I’ve already mentioned that I rather like the videos that GQ includes in its iPad edition — sometimes just some footage of a photo shoot, but more often than not an interview with the person featured in the article — and I must say they really outdid themselves with the latest issue (December [...]
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This article was posted on November 28, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, Breaking Bad, GQ, iPad, Peter Dinklage, Videos
British satire magazine Private Eye‘s Ian Hislop’s take on digital, asked at an event to celebrate the magazine’s 50th anniversary (from the latest issue of The New Yorker‘s “Talk of the Town“): Across the room, a champagne flute shattered. A man approached Ian Hislop and asked about his strategy for the digital era. “I don’t care [...]
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This article was posted on November 20, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Digital, Ian Hislop, Private Eye, Talk of the Town, The New Yorker
I’m absolutely losing patience with The New Yorker on iPad. As much as I enjoy the magazine, every single week — and this has been going on for as long as I can remember — I constantly have issues with the download. It almost never downloads in one go, and when it does pause, I [...]
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This article was posted on October 28, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, iOS 5, iPad, The New Yorker
Take a look at the image on the left. That’s a screenshot from an article in last month’s issue of Wired on iPad (19.10). I wanted to point this out because it’s not the first time I see an article that is horribly rendered like this, and I’m astounded that we’re still seeing this kind [...]
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This article was posted on October 23, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, iPad, Scrolling, Typefaces, Wired