I have been taking another look at PageFlow in the Exactly App on the iPhone. Here are a few screenshots taken while using the App to skim through the current issue of Dazed & Confused:
Starting at the frontcover
By stroking the pages you pull them across the screen
Picking up the bead on the slider is a way of zipping through the magazine
The slider bar indicates how far through you are (here 98/132pp)Exploring this PageFlow is … Keep Reading
One of the really great things about Twitter is the way that it enables you to build up real, but virtual, and in some cases one-sided, friendships with people in other countries that you would otherwise never have met. I now have about 30 such Twitter friends (as well as 100+ Twitter acquaintances) whose postings I usually look out for. Here are a few of them, in an East to West order: Virginie Clayssen, I like that her tweets … Keep Reading
The Idler joins Exact Editions. This is not the original Idler in which many of Samuel Johnsons Essays were first published but (to quote Wikipedia) ” a bi-yearly British magazine exploring alternative ways of working and living, still published today.” Reckon that ‘still’ is a bit cheeky. What does Wikipedia mean? The Idler has just joined Exact Editions. Wake up wikieditors!
Exactly is a free App for the iPhone which can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store here.
If you have an iPhone and are in the magazine business you should download it and check it out with the hundreds of free sample magazine issues that are open to any user of the Exact Editions store.
If you dont have an iPhone this short (c. 5 minute) video will give you a good overview of the power of digital … Keep Reading
Celera was the company founded by Craig Venter, and funded by Perkin Elmer, which played a large part in sequencing the human genome and was hoping to make a massively profitable business out of selling subscriptions to genome databases. The business plan unravelled within a year or two of the publication of the first human genome. With hindsight, the opponents of Celera were right. Science is making and will make much greater progress with open data sets.
Here are some … Keep Reading
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