{"id":7639,"date":"2009-04-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T08:30:00","slug":"sa-s-new-apple-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/7639-sa-s-new-apple-magazine.html","title":{"rendered":"SA&#039;s new Apple magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a general consensus that print media is in decline and a trend towards closing down magazines rather than opening new ones, a new Apple Mac-focused magazine released its first issue last week. <\/p>\n<p>Edited by Steve Allison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macaction.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Action magazine<\/a> is a locally produced digital magazine focused exclusively on the Apple market locally. <\/p>\n<p>The free magazine is available from the Mac Action website or through Virtualmags.co.za and can be read online entirely. <\/p>\n<p>Intended to be released monthly &#8211; on the first Thursday of every month &#8211; Mac Action magazine is intended to set right the &quot;embarrassing void on local newsagent shelves where a South African, or indeed African-flavoured Apple Mac magazine should be,&quot; says Allison. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;From now on, Mac Action will bring those addicted to, those merely interested in, and those who can at least appreciate from afar, their monthly &#8216;fix&#8217; of Apple-related news, invaluable and in-depth How To articles guiding them through various Mac actions &#8230; a spotlight African Mac-dedicated businesses and organisations, and of course all the hardware and software review goodness that comes with the moniker of being a technology magazine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The magazine covers local Apple news, personalities and product reviews. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?p=2694555\">Discuss Mac Action<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucking the current media trend for closing down publications, a new Mac-focused magazine is launched locally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}