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I've been a huge fan of magazine style apps ever since the release of Flipboard, followed by Pulse, and then Zite. These apps pull articles from around the net based either upon your specific topical interests.The design, layout and presentation of content in these apps take full advantage of the iPad's size, orientation, and tactile features. In this article I share some of the best new features in these apps, and explain why you might download one or all of them to your iPad.
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The iPad in many ways works best as a digital magazine in which you flip through “pages” of multimedia content. It is magazine style apps like Groovebug and News.me that make the iPad worth having. Though these apps have different purposes, they both share an user interface which invites users to browse and interact with their content.
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Have you ever been in the middle of reading a really amazing article only to have to run out? This can be frustrating and annoying. Thankfully, Magazinify has the solution. Their awesome service takes any article on the Internet and converts it to a beautiful PDF file for later reading. Each day all the articles saved in your queue are emailed to you as a handy little magazine that you can read on at your own leisure.
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I really enjoy reading books. I have a Kindle and I use it all the time. But sometimes a book isn’t always what I need. There are times when I have just a couple of minutes to fill, or when I’m somewhat distracted. For those times, a magazine works much better, and while I can read newspapers and magazines on the Kindle, I was intrigued by Zinio which offers paid magazines for Android.
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If you are a fan of an iPad magazine layout and you want to publish your own, or if you just want to read your favorite news in this kind of layout, you could try Pressjack - a multi platform magazine publisher that will help you produce a web magazine from RSS feeds.
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One would think that websites and blogs with their free for all and universal access are forcing traditional magazines to shut shop. But a look at the newsstand at the corner belies this belief. The doomsday for magazines is still distant. That’s a relief because many of us started our world exploration with children’s magazines [...]
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When I walk into my local book stores I sometimes cringe when I see the number of magazines on shelves un-read and un-purchased, but yet so well designed and full of great information. I’ve asked store clerks more than a few times what happens to the magazines that they don’t sell. Each has said the [...]
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The great thing about Google is that you can take any of its services and extend it to uses that are not so obvious. We have seen the uncounted ways you can use Google Search. Now, take Google Books for instance. Google Books is a Google service that makes discovering book content easier for us [...]
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That’s true”¦articles from 650 magazines for you to read. But instead of flipping the pages, you will have to click the mouse at Maggwire. Who reads magazines these days? Plenty of people, I would say. My mother is one of them because the digital world is still like a mystic’s ball to her. Me? For [...]
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Have you ever wanted to be on a magazine cover? Of course you have ““ who hasn’t? But the probability of you actually getting there is slim to none. Sorry for bursting your bubble but chances are you’re not going to be famous. But maybe you want to feel famous or you want to create [...]
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One of the most attractive features of Google Books is the ability to read complete magazine archives there. At the moment, the selection isn’t too astounding (no “Playboy” available – I checked!) but neverthess there are still some nice ones there which shows that the magazine selection which has been scanned into Google is the beginning [...]
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For the environmentally-conscious reader, Digital-magazine store Zinio is currently offering free subscriptions to select publications as part of its “Read Green Initiative.” There are several magazines to choose from in many categories. The sign up process is very simple: just select your magazine and provide an email address, then sign up for a Zinio account [...]
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I’m a big fan of ebooks and have a huge collection of ebooks on various topics. Although I don’t read them on my cellphone now but later in this year when I plan to travel extensively, I’d definitely like to have the access to my ebooks collection on my phone and read them on the [...]
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