Journal tagged by Digital devices

This video shows the beta of the iOS 4.3 with multi-finger hand gestures being used to open/close apps, move from app to app and return to home page. Will the next generation iPad do away with the home button? Want!

  This chart shows the drop in magazine app sales in carefully edited form; US Wired set up everything that followed for a fall. John Henry intelligently unpicks some of the problems underlying that drop in sales. Monday Note chuck...

‘Adobe to blame for size of their apps’. True; but as well as being a function of the file format used, their app tool starts off with larger InDesign files than competitors like WoodWing. Makes for higher resolution onscreen reproduction...

Last week, designer/writer Adrian Shaughnessy, Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne and I recorded a discussion about the iPad for Adrian’s ‘Graphic Design on the Radio’ show. It goes out 3pm tomorrow (Thursday 29 April) on Resonance FM (104.4fm).

‘A digital magazine without links is a CD-Rom’ – right. ‘the most vibrant magazines… will live on the Web (not some jewel-encased app)’ – wrong. ‘Nonlinear, digital platforms will prompt a new range of thinking about stories and how to...

Apple have announced the iPad will go on sale in the US on April 3, with full-spec versions following at the end of April. Prices $429–$829. All versions will be available in the UK at the end of April, prices...