Giles Turnbull: archive of published work
Note: many of the links below may be broken now. Some kind people have written a few testimonials about me and my work. I've also contributed to a handful of books.
2009
- A variety of posts for Cult of Mac (too many to list here)
- A delightful breakfast browsing slideshow for Photocine News
- From cover to cover for The Morning News
- JustNotes review for MacUser
- CameraBag Desktop review for MacUser
- Notational Velocity review for MacUser
- Leap 2 review for MacUser
- SuperDuper review for MacUser
- A common nomenclature for Lego families; people, language and Lego deconstructed for The Morning News
- TextWrangler review for MacUser
- Postbox review for MacUser
- Phoneview review for MacUser
- Dropzone review for MacUser
- Pagehand review for MacUser
- OK Genius, picking fights with software for The Morning News
- Ulysses 2 review for MacUser
- Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 review for MacUser
- Radio Gaga review for MacUser
- PersonalBrain 5 review for MacUser
- Copywriting for Dopplr: the Social Atlas and the iPhone application
- The present sound of London, words and noises for The Morning News
- The Pride of the Bernard-Bernards of West Wickingham is wounded, satire for The Morning News
- Clipstart review for MacUser
- When the going was good, political comment for The Morning News
- Did some research and development work for Dopplr.com
- Wait a minute, Mr Postman, a bit of fun for The Morning News, co-written with Rosecrans Baldwin
- NeoOffice 3 review for MacUser
- OmniGraphSketcher review for MacUser
- A talk for Bathcamp titled iPhone apps you must own, although it's not actually about that.
See the talks page for more detail - Alkaline review for for MacUser
- Attractive with glasses, for The Morning News
- One Spring Day, co-written with my colleagues at The Morning News
- Love sic for The Morning News
- The crippling fear of corriearklet for The Morning News
- Cash faces its final call for The Guardian
2008
- Various posts for Cult of Mac
- Various posts for The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- An interesting study of iPhone usability
- Mr Bowyer's Fantastic Machine, tech reporting of a different sort for The Morning News
- A good idea: Genius for the App Storefor Inside iPhone
- Online charity begins at the home page, feature for the Daily Telegraph
- Dropbox review for MacUser
- Conjure 3 review
- Google goes back in time for its 10th birthday
- Forget email: try postcards from the cutting edge for the Irish News
- Phone finger gives a helping hand for Inside iPhone
- The wonderful world of appvertising, comment for Inside iPhone
- Experimental site as music just a click away for the Irish News
- Little Big Planet whets new game generation's appetite for The Irish News
- Bloggers in the House of Lords, a PA column
- iPhone app investment thriving, for Inside iPhone
- Ultimate DVD Player review for MacUser
- Apple's mad MailWrangler moment for Inside iPhone
- Idiots on the App Store: a necessary evil? for Inside iPhone
- Maritime museum catches history surfers
- Councillors get blogging to keep in touch
- Matt dances his way to a sponsored holiday fund
- Get the knol with the new Googlepedia
- Software as a service for BT's Upload magazine
- 20 blogs to read while the boss is away for MacUser
- A bright future for corporate iPhone OS dev?, for Inside iPhone
- No more trying to calculate the cassette time left thanks to Muxtapes; for my PA column
- iShrink review for MacUser
- The iPhone knows what you want ... and where you are, for the Birmingham Post
- Hello. Again, an introductory post for my new gig at Inside iPhone
- A new version of Dopplr, an email newsletter for Dopplr
- Twitter searches for the next step, a feature-length interview for the Guardian's technology pages
- An article on SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) for BT's Upload magazine (created on BT's behalf by Redwood Publishing)
- Radiohead breaks new ground with digital video
- Various bits of copywriting (newsletters and user info) for Dopplr
- They work for you - so have a look at what they're up to; as used here by the Birmingham Post
- TapeDeck review for MacUser
- Times RSS reader review for MacUser
- Our gazetteer upgrade, an email newsletter for Dopplr
- How to make your web site more search engine friendly, some brief tips for readers of BT Insight, commissioned by Redwood Publishing on BT's behalf
- Fluid review for MacUser
- Flow review for MacUser
- How researchers are helping to keep your computer in the picture; as used by the Birmingham Post
- Presentation for Informa: Writing for the Web. Private event, but you can read the slides I prepared and some thoughts on why I didn't use them
- Digital radio's future already heading into the past, for the PA column
- Mailplane review for MacUser
- Trust technology and store your data online, for the Birmingham Post
- Screenflow review; for MacUser
- BOINC and SETI and the hunt for aliens, published by the Birmingham Post
- In search of the new Google, for the Daily Telegraph
- How to get that advertising bullseye off your back, published by the Birmingham Post
- Leap review for MacUser
- Meander review, another for MacUser
- Searchme looks nice but it doesn't have Google's speed in the Birmingham Post
- A writer by any other name for The Morning News
- Protecting your computer, consumer advice for young people at thesite.org
- Understanding BitTorrent, for thesite.org
- Snapper review for MacUser
- Who'll be swallowed up by Silicon Valley?, business comment in the Birmingham Post
- MacJournal 5 review for MacUser
- Slim pickings from the MacBook Air in the Birmingham Post
- Scribbles review for MacUser
- Please spool to end of tape before playing other side, an essay for The Morning News
- Heavy price for a slim and light laptop, reporting on the new MacBook Air for The Irish News
- The web helps the music industry, for the Birmingham Post
2007
MacUser magazine:
- Little Snitch review
- Cocktail review
- Taskpaper review
- Conjure review
- Browsers mini round-up - five modern OS X browsers compared and contrasted
- Streamline your Mac - a feature inspired by the minimalist file organisation approach advocated by Ethan Schoonover at Kinkless.com
- SketchBox review
- MarsEdit 2 review
- Skim review
- iClip 4 review
- Posterino review
- iGet 2.6 review
- Trapper Keeper review
- Power Manager 3 review
- Flypath review
- Actiontastic review
- Instant Gallery review
- Nudge Nudge Punakea review
- Apple versus the iHackers - have gadget, will hack
- Don't think about it, just write - thoughts on the phenomenon that is tumblelogs (reader opinions)
- Like to send the world a text? - explaining Twitter for the Telegraph
- Teletext fights for a place in the digital world
- The future at your fingertips - all about multitouch and where it will go next
- The Good Easy on OS X - how to make your Mac a simpler, more productive environment
- Smarter ways to work with PDFs
- Indie Mac development in the UK
- Introducing Google Desktop for Mac - written at top speed to be as newsy as a feature can be
- Also many blog posts for the O'Reilly Mac Devcenter blog
Syndicated column for PA :
(As used by a variety of publications)
- How Apple's Leopard will change your spots
- How the iPhone took on the phone hackers
- The Hidden Power in Wordpress for Linux Insider.
- China calls in the website cybercops in the Birmingham Post
- Socialising the Facebook way in the Birmingham Post
- Finding the right address while avoiding a web of confusion
- Friendly faces all over the world
- Tumblelog - the new kid on the block
- Speedier ways to launch applications
- Vista brings better parental control
- A good old-fashioned new service
- A more human approach to problem solving on the net
- A library bigger than any building - interviewing Aaron Swartz about his work on the Open Library project
Macworld magazine:
- Murder and the Masseuse - "I was completely manipulated"
Copywriting:
- Expectnation - I produced contextual help content for this startup web application
- YouCanDo Guides - distilling the Scarman Trust's years of experience in community work into easy-to-use, free-to-download information packs