March 28, 2013
News reader and magazine app Flipboard has reached version 2.0 and includes some interesting new features. You can create your own personalized magazines, which can be either private or available to all. Creating your own magazine is easy as searching for your favorite topics on Flipboard and turning them into beautiful flippable magazines.
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February 28, 2013
One of the cool things that you can do on an iPad is read magazines. When the slate was first announced, it was touted as one of the main selling points, but it's a feature that seems to have flown under the radar for the most part. Sure, Apple launched Newsstand, but most articles written on it are simply directions for tricking iOS into hiding it in a folder. Of course, it doesn't have to be this way, as there are some fantastic apps for magazine lovers.
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January 30, 2013
The iPad as a device could well be considered the first digital magazine. Its size, orientation, and high resolution screen nearly makes holding and reading it like a traditional paper magazine. And the developers of the magazine app, Flipboard, were probably the first to recognize how the iPad could turn the Internet into a mobile web magazine.
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January 7, 2013
PixelMags and its new magazine subscription program and app, Readr, are doing for magazines what streaming music sites like Rdio and Spotify are doing for music. Readr provides users 20 minutes a month of free "AnyTime" magazine browsing, and for $9.99 per month you get unlimited reading of hundreds of popular magazines. The catch, however, to this subscription service is that you never really own the magazines.
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December 6, 2012
Zite, a leading iOS magazine app, just released a completely redesigned update that now enables users to rate stories, organize subscriptions, link to Facebook to get automatic topic suggestions, and explore and find article topics from over 40,000 categories. Zite is a free app that delivers stories to your iPhone or iPad from across the web based on your personal interests. The more you use the app, the more Zite gets to know about what types of stories you favor and dislike. The 2.0 update of Zite now includes a huge expanded list of categories and topics to search and select from.
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November 18, 2012
The popular magazine style and RSS feed mobile app, Flipboard has added Apple iBookstore and Books categories to its list of Content Subscriptions and recommendations. The new iBooks section consists of two dozen book categories found in the iBookstore itself, including Bestsellers, Arts and Entertainment, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, History, Humor, Romance, and Travel & Adventure.
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November 8, 2012
Digital editions emerged at a time when the Internet had already made a sufficient dent in the print industry’s funds, but a little too late to stem the flow of free information from new entirely web-based sources. This very website is a prime example, providing daily tips, reviews and articles that print magazines used to rely on to sell copies.
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November 7, 2012
I love reading. Given the amount of research I find myself doing here at MakeUseOf that’s not a bad thing, but recently I’ve found my office space becoming encroached with more and more magazines. The obvious solution is to bin them, but then I lose a potentially valuable resource. So it’s time to think outside of the box and choose the second most obvious solution - digital alternatives.
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October 28, 2012
I know, MakeUseOf provides you with more than enough quality reading material, but what if you're after something other than fantastic technology tutorials and app reviews? I think we all have those moments of thinking "I wish I could get some design inspiration for my new living room", or "how about some light reading material about manly things?" - don't we? Well, it turns out that your iPad is the perfect size for reading magazines.
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July 15, 2012
No matter where you live, you can now download the interactive version of the Men’s Health Australia magazine to your iPad. Men’s Health Australia recently opened up their iOS app and you can now download it from iTunes anywhere in the world. Men’s Health Australia is one of the top grossing men’s magazines in Australia. The iOS app too is scaling the top in Health and Fitness in the Australian App store.
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June 6, 2012
Are you a Wired fan? Have you been collecting issues since the first one came out in 1993? Yes, it’s hard to believe, but Wired has been around for almost 20 years. Now, in tune with the digital revolution, they have now released their very first issue of the magazine as an iPad app, and it’s free!
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April 23, 2012
Here are the top ten magazine websites you can catch online for free. Or at least, a substantial portion of their content. There is a lot to choose from as popular names have gone for a digital makeover. The paper magazine may offer more as you hold it between your hands, but their digital counterparts too offer a lot in the may of multimedia and downloads.
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March 12, 2012
Social media is a fast moving business with thousands of links flashing before your very eyes. If you blink, sleep, or take a bathroom break, you could miss the next big story or meme - and which self-respecting Internet surfer wants that to happen to them? That's why Reddit's new free monthly downloadable PDF magazine is essential reading if you want to see what you've missed in the Reddit world.
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December 19, 2011
As I've said before, there's no shortage of magazine-style content apps for the iPad or other tablets and smartphones. The highly honored Flipboard started it all over a year ago, followed by some awesome competitors including Zite and Pulse News, - plus several others. Not to be left out of the mobile content game, Google has released its own cross-platform reader called Google Currents.
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November 18, 2011
Subscribing to and reading digitally- formatted newspapers and magazines on a tablet device seems to be a perfect fit for both publishers and consumers. With the upcoming release of Amazon's new Kindle Fire, users of the device will be able to choose from over 400 popular magazines and newspapers, including Vanity Fair, Elle, The Oprah Magazine, Wired, and GQ.
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