MacFormat is a the UK's

United Kingdom

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 biggest computer magazine

Magazine

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 aimed at Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 users. It is published monthly by Future Publishing

Future Publishing

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, and has been since 1993.

Content

The main content of this magazine includes news from major Apple events such as the WWDC or the Macworld Expo, features, detailed tutorials and reviews of the latest products and games. Current issues of the magazine include a free coverdisc filled with Mac programs and utilities from the features and demos of software and games reviewed in the magazine. In previous years MacFormat came with programs on a free 3½-inch (88.9 mm) Floppy disk

Floppy disk

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, CD

CD-ROM

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 or CD/DVD option as reflected the state of cheap removable media in that era.

The magazine has a website

Website

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 with news, review

Review

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s and information taken from the magazine (as well as content written specially for the website). There is also a forum

Internet forum

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based on free software PHPBB2.

Podcast

The Editorial team also release a fortnightly audio and enhanced podcast based on the content of the current issue.

Editorial team

• Editor: Graham Barlow
• Deputy Editor: Christopher Phin
• Production Editor: Tim Hardwick
• Art Editor: Alex Thomas
• Reviews Editor: Ian Osborne
• Staff Writer: Laurence Cable
• Disc Editor: Simon Holland

External links

• MacFormat official website