First on the agenda this week (for a change!) is print. A few great design ideas have come to our attention this week, so we thought we would group them together, starting with “How to make your business cards look great!”; to help with this and other projects, eight best free fonts can be found here; thoughts on meaningful typography; and 30 stunning and creative uses of typography in print might also provide plenty of inspiration (something that is always useful!).This coming week, printers in the UK will be descending on Harrogate in Yorkshire to enjoy the wonders of the Northprint exhibition. A couple of late additions to the show were announced this week. Firstly, the French digital kit of MGI will be given a platform at the show, enabling it to illustrate its significant points of differentiation; staff from M Partners will be on hand to explain. Even more recently, the chaps from Centurfax and Ripware have announced that they will use Northprint as a platform to unveil their new combined Centurfax Customised Dotmeters Ltd business.
Also this coming week, Split-it, the new environmentally friendly packaging solution, makes a worldwide debut at Interpack in Dusseldorf, Germany. Sadly, we won’t be able to make it to the event, but we hope to be able to Tweet details of a successful launch as the show unfolds. Certainly Split-it is all over the web like a rash at the moment, which will hopefully help!We are advised that the recently withdrawn Sunday Sport is back in full colour this very weekend. After a five week absence former owner David Sullivan has bought back the title.
In the world of publishing, it was revealed that iOS publication The Daily has racked up a $10 million loss in its first quarter. The US-only "magazine" (or newspaper?) is a Murdoch owned title that is exclusively available on Apple’s iPad.Far more accessible is The GenesisNews Print Daily publication (as mentioned in the header!). Distribution started this week, and interest is steadily growing. As many of you will already know, the paper.li product is assembled automatically from Tweets in the GenesisNews feed. Why not subscribe to the daily? Whilst content is slightly different from this weekly digest, it’s still focused on the same basic topics, and makes for a good read!
In the less print friendly news this week we can report that e-book sales have taken another leap forward in the UK. We are also advised, however, that this is just the tip of the iceberg in relation to the volume of books currently being sold, so print has some life left in it yet, thankfully!In tablet talk, we are pleased to be able to confirm our thoughts re the Asus Eee Pad Transformer product, as mentioned in last week PIND. It is so popular, you can’t get one! 100,000 for May and 200,000 for June are the production targets. Meanwhile, we are told that Android apps are working just fine on RIM’s PlayBook, which gives it a reasonable suite of software from the off, though there is debate as to whether this is the right product now that it has finally seen the light of day.
In other tablet news, we learn that we will buy nearly $3 billion worth of apps this year, $425 million of that on Android apps; the Guardian tells us about the increasingly more tactile nature of book apps on the iPad; and Amazon looks likely to move into the tablet market before the end of the year.In the world of syncing software, it is good to see Syncdocs, a great little product that provides for the easy syncing of GoogleDocs. We like the idea. Also you might like to check out Pogoplug: a software solution for personal cloud computing.
Firefox has not been on our radar for a little while: we did mention the eagerly awaited arrival on Firefox 4.0, of course, and we have been busy getting used to it here at PIND. You may have also found that far less add-ons were required to really make the new version sing, but the chaps at Tripwire magazine have managed to come up with 25 that they think are useful. We quite liked Tab Scope, which shows a thumbnail of the tab content. Perhaps more meaty is “What's That Preference”, an add-on that links to the MozillaZine Knowledge Base and provides the user with details of an item within the about:config menu. Takes the guesswork out of making changes or tweaks to the basic browser!Great news for QR code fans: a neat little bit of software to help you to create your own product labels with QR code incorporated! You might even surprise yourself at how much you use this!
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 52. Details of our next edition will be added to this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reeder; and for the GenesisNews Print Daily, take a look at the link and take out a free subscription!PIND051
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