Magazine on Windows

halohodge
halohodge Forum Participant Posts: 9
edited November 2016 in Club Membership #1

Is there any prospect of the online magazine being available on Windows laptops etc. I have subscribed to the online edition but I now find I cant read it on my Windows 10 laptop, the Wife has a IPad but she says it fills up the memory as she now gets warnings that the hard drive is short of space. No comments about the actual magazine, I personally dont mind it, good advert for trousers which I used so it does have it`s uses. Excuse spelling mistake on header, you know what it means.

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  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2016 #2

    I would have thought that for windows having it available as a PDF file which you could download would be enough. I am not sure if its still the same but many magazines are assembled as PDF's to send to the printers. It would also be handy for printing parts
    of the magazine if that was requird?

    David

    PS edited the thread title for you.

  • brue
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    edited November 2016 #3

    We used to have a digital version on here, I miss it and found it useful.  It's only avavilable now on certain devices details in the magazine app section.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2016 #4

    We used to have a digital version on here, I miss it and found it useful.  It's only avavilable now on certain devices details in the magazine app section.

    I wonder why they've removed the digital version from here. I can't be bothered to try using the app on my phone.

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #5

    Is there any prospect of the online magazine being available on Windows laptops etc. I have subscribed to the online edition but I now find I cant read it on my Windows 10 laptop,
    the Wife has a IPad but she says it fills up the memory as she now gets warnings that the hard drive is short of space. No comments about the actual magazine, I personally dont mind it, good advert for trousers which I used so it does have
    it`s uses. Excuse spelling mistake on header, you know what it means.

    I reference to the lack of memory, I posted the following on another thread about the mag. It could well explain the warnings:-

    I have just noticed that the magazine app had consumed 1.4 Gb on my iPad, despite only having two mags downloaded. I generally delete them after I have looked at them. After deleting all the mags the app was still 1Gb, so I Deleted User and reinstalled
    the app. It now showed at 200 Mb, so it looks as though it was not giving all the memory back when mags were Deleted User. A quick test showed they seem to have fixed this, but mags are still 200 Mb a time. So you would not want to store many on your device, unless
    you have plenty of surpluse memory.

  • EasyT
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    edited November 2016 #6

    We used to have a digital version on here, I miss it and found it useful.  It's only avavilable now on certain devices details in the magazine app section.

    I wonder why they've removed the digital version from here. I can't be bothered to try using the app on my phone.

    Same here. And of course some don't have a pad etc. Up until this year I have used a 12'' laptop whilst away

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #7

    Looks like it's up to its old tricks again. When I re downloaded the app it was 200 MB, loaded one mag about 430 MB total. I have just checked after loading a second and it's up to 780 MB. So either this mag is very heavy on memory, or something is amiss. 

  • EasyT
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    edited November 2016 #8

    I tried the App a while ago and got shut PDQ. Sooner have acccess to a PDF

  • Tarmyn
    Tarmyn Forum Participant Posts: 49
    edited November 2016 #9

    Trying to navigate the Magazine App on your iphone is not good,please can we have it available for our Laptops.

  • Boff
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    edited November 2016 #10

    Just checked on my iPad the app is taking up 2.65gb Yell

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #11

    I tend to let about a months worth of daily and weekend newspapers build up, before I delete them. I just checked and at just over a month I am up to 878 MB. Yet two mags is 780 MB. Something must be wrong. Given that the app is designed for pads and phones
    with expensive SSD's, that often are not that large and working near the limit, designing such a memory hungry app does not make sense.

  • Boff
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    edited November 2016 #12

    Also it doesn't seem possible to delete a single magazine it's all or nothing. 

  • papgeno
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    edited November 2016 #13

    I've just checked in settings on my iPad and the magazine app is taking up 20.8MB. Since I haven't yet found a way to delete the current magazine without deleting and reinstalling the app I think I'll just get rid of it

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #14

    Deleting the mags is easy enough on the iPad. Just touch on the download symbol at the top right of the screen ( a little tray with an arrow pointing down into it.) This lists the mags you have downloaded with the option to delete. However, I am not sure
    if it is giving all the memory back. I thought they had sorted it, but now not so sure.

  • halohodge
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    edited November 2016 #15

    If you could download onto s laptop memory wouldn`t be a problem as they usually have plenty of space on the hard drive, anyway thanks for the info. on how to delete the magazines on a I Pad.

  • papgeno
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    edited November 2016 #16

    Deleting the mags is easy enough on the iPad. Just touch on the download symbol at the top right of the screen ( a little tray with an arrow pointing down into it.) This lists the mags you have downloaded with the option to delete. However, I am not sure
    if it is giving all the memory back. I thought they had sorted it, but now not so sure.

    Write your comments here...Thanks for that Steve I might reinstall it sometime. However with way I feel about the magazine at the moment it'll have to improve a lot

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #17

    Sounds like a typical bit of CC IT. ISTM that the IT team were engaged on the basis of price rather than competence.

  • Boff
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    edited November 2016 #18

    Sounds like a typical bit of CC IT. ISTM that the IT team were engaged on the basis of price rather than competence.

    So cynical for someone so young Tongue Out

  • Kennine
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    edited November 2016 #19

    Sounds like a typical bit of CC IT. ISTM that the IT team were engaged on the basis of price rather than competence.

    Write your comments here...Tut tut CY, how could you say such a thing on the forum. Everybody knows that the CC only employ the very best IT people in Londonshire. Wink

    Cheers.  K Laughing