MacUser revamp

Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.

Stuart
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SM <info@that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:

> Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
>
Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version

<http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
and slap it between the phone point and your mac.

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Jon
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Jon B wrote:
> SM <info@that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
>>
>
> Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version
>
> <http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
> Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
> available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
> and slap it between the phone point and your mac.

Well apparently the supplied Voyager 105 modem is _crucial_ to the
service. I can find no information on this modem but wouldn't mind
betting its USB with Win only drivers.

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Patrick

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Patrick <pat102345@netscape.net> wrote:

> Jon B wrote:
> > SM <info@that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
> >>
> >
> > Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version
> >
> > <http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
> > Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
> > available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
> > and slap it between the phone point and your mac.
>
> Well apparently the supplied Voyager 105 modem is _crucial_ to the
> service. I can find no information on this modem but wouldn't mind
> betting its USB with Win only drivers.

Yes and I bets its just BTs usual attempts to try and prevent anyone
adding more than one computer to the service, bearing in mind these
things are all to an industry 'standard' it can't be any more than
needing the user name and password, and maybe the IP but BT usually
charge extra for a fixed IP.
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Jon
jon.bradbury@btinternet.com

Jon B <jon.bradburyusenetspam@btinternet.com> wrote:

> > > Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version
> > >
> > > <http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
> > > Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
> > > available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
> > > and slap it between the phone point and your mac.
> >
> > Well apparently the supplied Voyager 105 modem is _crucial_ to the
> > service. I can find no information on this modem but wouldn't mind
> > betting its USB with Win only drivers.
>
> Yes and I bets its just BTs usual attempts to try and prevent anyone
> adding more than one computer to the service, bearing in mind these
> things are all to an industry 'standard' it can't be any more than
> needing the user name and password, and maybe the IP but BT usually
> charge extra for a fixed IP.
> --
It's also 1Gbit/month at the basic rate. 128Mb isn't that much with the
odd s/w download. And £20 inc VAt isn't that much better than £0 plus
VAT for unlimited service on Pipex and others.

Typical BT marketting.

Stuart
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Jon B wrote:

> SM <info@that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
>>
>
> Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version
>
> <http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
> Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
> available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
> and slap it between the phone point and your mac.
>

MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
market to avoid missing out. It _used_ to be a Mac mag. written and run
by Mac users but not anymore. Many columnists etc. have been transferred
from other publications within the PC world and the whole outlook is
very different.


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David Kennedy

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David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:

> >>Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
> >>
> >
> > Speaking of which, just flicking through the email version
> >
> > <http://www.macuser.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=54332>
> > Re BTs new no frills broadband, MacUser Say "The service is only
> > available for PCs." You'd think they'd say but you can just buy a router
> > and slap it between the phone point and your mac.
> >
>
> MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
> market to avoid missing out. It _used_ to be a Mac mag. written and run
> by Mac users but not anymore. Many columnists etc. have been transferred
> from other publications within the PC world and the whole outlook is
> very different.

The editor describes himself as a switcher

Stuart
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David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:

> MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
> market to avoid missing out. It _used_ to be a Mac mag. written and run
> by Mac users but not anymore. Many columnists etc. have been transferred
> from other publications within the PC world and the whole outlook is
> very different.

Who are these "many columnists" who are secretly PC hacks?
Tony Tyler is still spouting forth, haven't seen The Ugliest Man in The
World for a while, Paul Nesbitt and Simon Aughton have been MacUser for
as long as I can remember (which is usually about three minutes, but
hey)... I just had a look through the staff list, and can't say I
recognise too many names.

Interestingly enough, MacUser is an Apple trademark.

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Pd

SM wrote:

> David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
>>market to avoid missing out. It _used_ to be a Mac mag. written and run
>>by Mac users but not anymore. Many columnists etc. have been transferred
>>from other publications within the PC world and the whole outlook is
>>very different.
>
>
> The editor describes himself as a switcher
>

Which way ?


[He also said that he could never own an iPod........]


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PeterD wrote:

> David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
>>market to avoid missing out. It _used_ to be a Mac mag. written and run
>>by Mac users but not anymore. Many columnists etc. have been transferred
>>from other publications within the PC world and the whole outlook is
>>very different.
>
>
> Who are these "many columnists" who are secretly PC hacks?
> Tony Tyler is still spouting forth, haven't seen The Ugliest Man in The
> World for a while, Paul Nesbitt and Simon Aughton have been MacUser for
> as long as I can remember (which is usually about three minutes, but
> hey)... I just had a look through the staff list, and can't say I
> recognise too many names.

The editor for one. But, as for the rest, I concede defeat.

>
> Interestingly enough, MacUser is an Apple trademark.
>

Since when ? And, how come Dennis have it registered [AFAIK] in the UK ?

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In <1ga2ffu.1sx83hb3rf740N%info@that.sundog.co.uk> SM wrote:
> Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
>
> Stuart

Glad they've dropped the CD in favour of more detailed reviews/articles.
They seem to have realised you can't compete with the www for news and
avoided the crap "game demo CD" route MacFormat have followed (did they
not learn from AtariFormat). Maybe a nice fashion or recipe article would
be nice though.

Regards, Steve.

David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:

> PeterD wrote:
>
> > Interestingly enough, MacUser is an Apple trademark.
>
> Since when ? And, how come Dennis have it registered [AFAIK] in the UK ?

Dunno. And Dennis Publishing must be using it with permission, since it
says on the (whatever it's called - credits?) page, "'Macintosh, 'Mac',
and 'MacUser' are the trademarks of Apple Computer Inc."

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Steve Green <greenies@macunlimited.net> wrote:

> In <1ga2ffu.1sx83hb3rf740N%info@that.sundog.co.uk> SM wrote:
> > Today's MacUser was created using InDesign on OSX.
> >
> > Stuart
>
> Glad they've dropped the CD in favour of more detailed reviews/articles.
> They seem to have realised you can't compete with the www for news and
> avoided the crap "game demo CD" route MacFormat have followed (did they
> not learn from AtariFormat). Maybe a nice fashion or recipe article would
> be nice though.
>
Personally I don't like the yellow highlighting they've splashed here
and there, yuk
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Jon
jon.bradbury@btinternet.com

Jon B <jon.bradburyusenetspam@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Personally I don't like the yellow highlighting they've splashed here
> and there, yuk

Doesn't that look like something that will be quietly dropped, just like
most embarrassments?

Daniele
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D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> Jon B <jon.bradburyusenetspam@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally I don't like the yellow highlighting they've splashed here
> > and there, yuk
>
> Doesn't that look like something that will be quietly dropped, just like
> most embarrassments?
>

I thought the highlighting was accidental

Stuart
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SM <info@that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:

> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Jon B <jon.bradburyusenetspam@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Personally I don't like the yellow highlighting they've splashed here
> > > and there, yuk
> >
> > Doesn't that look like something that will be quietly dropped, just like
> > most embarrassments?
>
> I thought the highlighting was accidental

Me too. Proof-reader's marks that were accidentally left in.

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Pd

PeterD <pd.news@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:

> > I thought the highlighting was accidental
>
> Me too. Proof-reader's marks that were accidentally left in.

and why wwere the iPod battery relacement articles in three languages?

Stuart
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PeterD wrote:

> David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>PeterD wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Interestingly enough, MacUser is an Apple trademark.
>>
>>Since when ? And, how come Dennis have it registered [AFAIK] in the UK ?
>
>
> Dunno. And Dennis Publishing must be using it with permission, since it
> says on the (whatever it's called - credits?) page, "'Macintosh, 'Mac',
> and 'MacUser' are the trademarks of Apple Computer Inc."
>

There you go. You learn something every day.

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:21:01 +0000, info@that.sundog.co.uk (SM) wrote:
>David Kennedy <davidkennedy@no.spam.today.thanks.invalid> wrote:
>> MacUser is - these days - essentially a PC Magazine aimed at the Mac
>> market to avoid missing out.
>
>The editor describes himself as a switcher

He ought to try upgrading to MultiFinder.
(Obscure System 6 joke.)