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Practical Internet |
| Date: |
07/04/01 (95 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: some good advice, los og hints and tips and product help
Disadvantages: not exactly entertaining, quite serious in its outlook, covers information which other magazines do far better
Practical Internet is one of the enormous and ever-growing number of internet user magazines springing up to cash-in on and feed the growing interest with all things net related in modern times. But with all that choice around what is it about this magazine which is different enough to warrant you spending your hard earned cash on it once oa month?
Well, it depends upon what you use the internet for as to which of the magazines appeals to you the most. Practical Internet, has basically 4 main sections, devoted to general internet news(Infonation), Hints and tips on using the internet and internet software(Net Workshop), a testing and review section(On Test), and regular monthly features(Features) where the focus is placed upon certain aspects of the internet and covered in more depth. As well as these sections there are the obligatory letters and readers feedback pages and ISP guide on the back pages.
The magazine itself costs a rather unfriendly £3.99 and is therefore not the best priced internet magazine on the market but if the content is good then it isn’t going to matter. For my purposes however, I find that the magazine is a little too interested in the quality of ISPs and offering advice on how to use different internet related products to be of much interest. I suppose the magazine does what its title suggests - offers practical advice on the internet and products related to it, and as such is not a particularly entertaining read but if thats what you are looking for then its the perfect choice. I also find that the concentration on different products etc. makes the magazine a little useless for my purposes unless I need information on that particular area of the internet - and I’m not willing to give up £3.99 a month on the off-chance that I may one day need some of the advice they give out...by which time it would no doubt be outdated anyway, with technology and especially the internet moving so fast.
That said, if y
ou are 'new' to the internet, then there is some good advice to be found in here, although, most of it can be found elsewhere as well in more entertaining and more information packed net magazines. As a result, it is difficult to recommend this one at this price, in the face of far better competition. There simply isn’t enough useful information, enough(any?) entertaining features or anything really to justify your interest over its competitors. Its a fair magazine, but its not a GREAT magazine and hence the rating.
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