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Texterity: Magazines for your iPhone

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Aug 1st, 2007

Texterity is a company that specializes in digitizing popular magazines. Today, we came across their iPhone portal. It's pretty cool - Touch the magazine you'd like to read and you're presented with several options, including the table of contents and a search function.

The fun is in displaying each page in a grid. Touch any one to make it go full-screen. From there, you can resize and move between pages easily. We like it.

Now I can cancel my subscription to "Everyday with Rachael Ray."

Tags: iphone, magazines, texterity

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Internet Tools, Troubleshooting

Zinio offers fix for QuickTime + Flash quirk in their magazines

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Oct 12th, 2006

Zinio, if you aren't familiar, offers magazines in digital format (yes, with DRM), many of them with rich media like embedded movies right in the pages, for Mac and PC. They have quite a selection and they've been around for a few years now, but apparently their latest version (released around the dawn of time) is suffering a quirk due to Apple changing the way QuickTime renders Flash with the latest QuickTime 7.1.3 update, causing embedded rich media to misbehave.

Fortunately, they've issued a fix via email, and it goes a little something like this:
  1. Close the Zinio Reader, if open
  2. Go to the QuickTime pane in System Preferences
  3. In the Advanced tab, check 'Enable Flash'
After that simple process you should be able to return to your regularly scheduled, though in my opinion ridiculously overpriced, reading.

This fix, by the way, is also how you enable iTunes 7 to play interactive booklets from the iTunes Store according to this Apple KB article.

Tags: fix, fixes, flash, magazine, magazines, multimedia, quicktime, rich media, RichMedia, support, troubleshooting, zinio

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

Delicious Library Gambler's Sale enters fourth and final week

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 17th, 2006


You'd better get out those credit cards boys and girls, as the Delicious Monster Gambler's Sale has entered its fourth and final week. For those not familiar with this type of sale: Delicious Monster set aside a secret number of Delicious Library licenses and put the app on a four week sale. Each week, they drop the price by $5. Herein lies the catch: the sale ends when either four weeks are up, or the secret number of licenses is sold - whichever is first.

This is the fourth and final week of the sale, and Delicious Library has hit $20. I just purchased my own copy, but only Delicious Monster knows how long you can keep waiting to taking advantage of a killer sale on a killer app.

Thanks RP

Tags: books, CD, CDs, delicious, DVD, DVDs, ical, internet, library, magazines, monster

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