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12 unusual facts about PC Magazine


Abort, Retry, Fail?

PC Magazine has used the term as the title of its column highlighting humorous computer-related errors.

Code.org

John Dvorak was critical of the Hour of Code in an articlefor PC Magazine.

Diamond Mind

Diamond Mind was named PC Magazine Editor's Choice for PC-based baseball games in its June 28, 2005 issue.

Ed Gallucci

Under these auspices Gallucci shot hundreds of magazine spreads and covers for: Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Discover, Longevity, New York Magazine, PC Magazine, Psychology Today, Science, Video Review, Weight Watchers, and Family Health magazines.

HTC One Mini

While PC Magazine experienced issues with image quality on the rear camera on a pre-production model, the One Mini was considered a good competitor to the similar Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini due to the One Mini's higher quality build and high-definition screen.

Jared Taylor

In the 1980s, Taylor was West Coast editor of PC Magazine and a consultant before founding the American Renaissance periodical in 1990.

PC Magazine

Prior to this position, Costa was executive editor under the previous editor-in-chief, Lance Ulanoff.

PC Magazine was a booster of early versions of the OS/2 operating system in the late 1980s, but then switched to a strong endorsement of the Microsoft Windows operating environment after the release of Windows 3.0 in May 1990.

QNX

PC Magazine stated in April 1983 that QNX was "an extraordinary piece of software".

Robert Sherwin

FlipDog, an online recruiting website, was named by PC Magazine as one of the Best 100 sites on the Web.

Samsung Rugby Smart

The Samsung Rugby Smart was rated 4 stars out of 5 by PC Magazine and selected as their Editors' Choice.

Workplace Fairness

In 2004 PC Magazine named Workplace Fairness's website as one of the "100 Top Websites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without."


Christopher Boyd

An article by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine alleged Boyd was part of some "Grand Microsoft Conspiracy" to bad-mouth BitTorrent to the benefit of their planned P2P tool, Avalanche.

Sebastian Rupley

From March 2006 until May 2010, Rupley had served as co-host (introduced as "co-crank"), alongside PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak, on Mevio's popular weekly IPTV show Cranky Geeks.

Tilman Hausherr

Hausherr is also the author of a software utility, Xenu's Link Sleuth, which was praised in a 2002 PC Magazine article covering 70 web builder utilities.

Virtualtourist

During the 2000s, the website grew rapidly and won a number of awards and positive mentions in the mainstream press, from sources as disparate as PC Magazine, The Times, Travel and Leisure, and The Wall Street Journal.