Since the launch of Mag+ in July 2010 we have been fascinated with the variety of ways in which creatives have taken advantage of our design platform to bring together text, music and the visual arts with social media into beautiful branded Apps, each with its own unique experience. The iPad opened up this exciting …
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Mag+ 3.0 is here and it (literally) rocks
Posted on , by
Mike Haney
My main duty at Mag+ these days is to oversee the product, which basically means I get to listen to all the great ideas our users have, generate a wish list of new features and then watch our amazing development and creative teams make it a reality. Today, we’re releasing version 3.0 of Mag+, with …
Digital publishing boost with Newsstand
Posted on November 28, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
Apple’s Newsstand seems to be a big success. Over the past weeks, numerous of publishers are reporting subscription surges for their newspaper and magazine apps. Ease of discovery is a big reason for the sales increase; titles are now collected in one place rather than being scattered all over the iTunes store as they were …
Photo app demonstrates iPad’s power for photographers and freelance journalists
Posted on November 17, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
We just had a chat with Tina Bauer, a German freelance photo journalist who recently launched her very first iPad photo app. With Traumhafter Alltag in Island Tina Bauer opened up a whole new market for herself: “I never thought I could reach people in the US with my photos. But now I know I …
Goodness! Gracious! The Great Kindle Fire?!
Posted on November 16, 2011, by
Matt Cokeley
Greetings all! A Kindle Fire landed on my desk this morning, so in keeping with the theme of the day, I though I would share a few quick reactions to the device thought to change the tablet game. 1) Upon first glance & feel, the Fire is as sexy as any other black box. The …
H, T, M and L, oh my!
Posted on November 9, 2011, by
Matt Cokeley
Greetings Mag+ maniacs, Quick post on using pinch & zoom in our feature builder. You can log in using your Mag+ credentials to access a community of HTML project builds, including pinch & zoom, here: http://feature.magplus.com/en/login.php Here are a couple of details to take full advantage of the pinch & zoom project. These are vital …
Mag+ talking iPad publishing at ABM in Chicago
Posted on November 4, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
See Mike Haney’s (Mag+ US Director) presentation at American Business Media’s 2011 Executive Forum last week.