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| Editor | Adam Banks |
|---|---|
| Categories | Computing, Macintosh |
| Biweekly | |
| First issue | 1985 |
| Company | Dennis Publishing Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.macuser.co.uk |
MacUser is a biweekly computer magazine published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. and licensed by Felden in the UK.
In 1985 Felix Dennis’ Dennis Publishing, the creators of MacUser in the UK, licensed the name and “mouse-rating” symbol for MacUser to Ziff-Davis Publishing for use in the rest of the world.[1] The UK MacUser was never linked to the US MacUser. When Ziff-Davis merged its Mac holdings into Mac Publishing in September 1997, that new company gained the license to use the MacUser name. However, it opted to keep the Macworld magazine brand-name alive, albeit with MacUser-style mouse ratings. As a result, only the original UK-based MacUser remains, and the UK edition of Macworld is unable to use the mouse rating symbols used by its fellow Macworld editions.
The UK magazine is aimed at Mac users in the design sector,[2] and each fortnight brings the reader up-to-date with news, reviews, ‘Masterclass’ tutorials and technical advice. Masterclasses take the reader through tasks such as photo retouching, design techniques, and creating movies. Recent features have covered new developments by Quark and Adobe in creating iPad magazines, benchmark tests of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops, and group tests of personal color laser printers.
Staff [link]
As of 2011[update], notable staff of the magazine include:
- Editor in Chief - Adam Banks
- Technical Editor - Keith Martin
- Contributing Features Editor - Nik Rawlinson
- Contributing Products Editor - Kenny Hemphill
- Contributing Writer - Alan Stonebridge
- Publisher - Paul Rayner
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MacUser (US edition)
MacUser was a monthly computer magazine published by Ziff-Davis in the United States while the UK edition was published by Dennis Publishing Ltd..
MacUser started publication in late 1985 as a four-color monthly and contained general interest Mac articles. It had reviews and regular columns for novice and experienced users with a more humorous view of the Macintosh world than other publications of the time. Games were reviewed and well as business and productivity software. A unique feature, not available in other publications, was the inclusion of about 250 capsule reviews in each edition.
The initial cover price was $3.50 with an annual subscription of $23 per annum or $42 for two-years.
In 1997, the publication was absorbed into Macworld as Macworld, incorporating MacUser (a name reflected subtly on the magazine's Table of Contents page) reflecting a consolidation of the Ziff-Davis-owned MacUser magazine into the International Data Group-owned Macworld within the new Mac Publishing joint venture between the two publishers.
