Yesterday, I reviewed the UK-centric Guitarist Magazine for the iPad and today, I’m here to review its American sister-friend, Guitar World Magazine. Both publications are produced by the same company and, unfortunately both Guitarist and Guitar World suffer the same, awful, interface fate as iPad Newsstand subscriptions.
Continue reading → The Guitar World Magazine for iPad Review
The iPad is a natural wonder for multimedia publication. The New Yorker gets its magazine perfectly right on the iPad. I went in search of music publications that would take the New Yorker example of perfection to the next righteous level of multimedia immersion in music.
I finally bit the bone and bought a year subscription to The New Yorker on my iPad 2. I resisted the purchase for so long because the weekly magazine is pricey and because getting magazines to work on an iOS device was an expensive hit-or-miss adventure that usually entailed hours of fiddling and re-starting and re-installing just to get a new issue to load.
The word legitimize has some pretty powerful connotations. While researching this article I searched for the word and came across many occurrences of things in the world that were at one point not taken seriously suddenly being treated with respect. For example, one movie review claims that the film “Shame” is going to be the thing to legitimize the NC-17 rating and make it something from which movie producers will not flee in the future. The governor of Washington state recently asked the United States Government to declassify marijuana and legitimize it for medicinal usage. With the release of the most recent update to iOS, the question becomes whether their tight integration of Twitter really legitimizes Twitter as a social networking service.
Continue reading → Has iPhone Integration Legitimized Twitter?
We learn through experience. Sometimes the experience is direct. Other times, we experience the experiences of others through immersive reading and learning. “The History of Jazz” is a terrific iPad app that, for under $10.00USD, will give you a wonderful new way to learn about the makings of Jazz.
I have, generally, had a pretty good experience with Apple’s new iTunes Match music service since its debut last week, but there is one particular album that is giving me fits on iTunes Match.
As you can see in the screenshot below, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Complete” album — consisting of over 300 songs in total — is having trouble “matching” 63 of those songs on iTunes Match so I can download them to my computer via iTunes. The error I’m getting is 5002 — so, preternaturally — Apple blames my local network connection, even though I can buy and download new music and pull other matched songs from the iCloud without incident.
It feels as if I’ve been waiting forever to finally write this review of Apple’s new iTunes Match cloud music streaming service.
Dear David,
This email confirms that you have purchased a 1-Year subscription to iTunes Match for $24.99 on 11/14/11. This subscription will automatically renew each year unless you turn it off no later than 24 hours before the end of your current subscription period. To cancel the automatic renewal of this subscription, sign in to iTunes with your Apple ID and go to your Account Information page.
Regards,
The iTunes Store team
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