As the editor and publisher of The Magazine, I have a little problem with Apple's Newsstand, even though it has served me and the publication well. It's become in iOS 7 an easy way to lose track of what you're reading. In iOS 5 and 6, the Newsstand faux folder showed tiny previews of the latest covers; in iOS 7, even those are gone. People forget about us. I expanded with my thoughts at TidBITS on an essay that Marko Karppinen wrote. He runs a publishing platform, and now recommends to his clients that the Newsstand advantages, which include an updated app icon for each new issue, no longer outweigh the disadvantages.

But I figured out one workaround for readers last night, and Marko told me via (public) Twitter he has a few more ideas he's working on, all of which will fit inside of Apple's current guidelines.

It's been

Hey, another two weeks have gone by and we have another great issue of The Magazine!

Issue 26: September 26, 2013

• Editor’s Note , by The Editor
• Red Rover , by Carren Jao
• Impermanent Games , by Richard Moss
• Typecast , by Elliott F. McCloud
• The Dragon Invasion , by Simon Parkin
• Redshirts in the Coffee Shop , by Gabe Bullard

Here's my full editor's note:

The space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to function 36 years after their launch, long beyond the mission criterion. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, bursting through the sun's magnetic bubble, in August 2012, although this was just confirmed days ago.

Humanity, in the form of NASA mostly, has sent rover after rover to Mars to roam about and send back information. The last three have been particularly successful. Spirit and Opportunity were budgeted for 90-day missions; Spirit traversed for 6 years, and Opportunity passed 10 and is

Holy cow, but we have another great issue of The Magazine ! Came out this week. First of all, fall in love with the illustration about by Olivia Warnecke for an article about a beloved naturalist, Derham Giuliani. Read my editor's note below for more details on what's inside. Subscriptions are $2 a month (two issues with five articles each) or $20 a year (130 articles! Incredibly good deal!).

Editor's Note for Issue #25

The desert attracts people, whether it's high and cold, low and hot, or any of the many other kinds in-between. Two of our writers were lured in and came out bearing stories of the life that flourishes within.

One night, Colleen Hubbard dreamed there was a cold desert in Eastern Europe. When she woke up, her pillow was missing. Wrong joke. When she woke up, she searched online and found the

For those of you who use Apple's AirPort base stations (Extreme, Express, and Time Capsule), you may be interested to know that I've got a revised edition out of Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network — version 3.2 of the book now covers the new 802.11ac base stations (Extreme and Time Capsule) Apple released a few months ago, the updated features in AirPort Utility for Mac OS X and iOS, and Mountain Lion's Wireless Diagnostics utility.

(We had to keep the title the same for complicated reasons of how ebooks are listed! It can be baroque. We'll update the title for the next major release after Mac OS X 10.9 and iOS 7 ship.)

What's the book good for? If you're trying to set up a network, swap out old base stations, or add new ones, I've got step-by-step instructions on how to do those and

My friend and editor Tom Standage (@tomstandage) explained the problem of completism to me recently. Tom is the digital editor of the Economist , and I have written for him for going on a decade. People get tied into knots "finishing" the print edition, and that extends to the digital apps as well. We all have friends and colleagues who have stacks of New Yorkers, Atlantics, and Economists  lying about waiting to be read.

They will never be read. But there is a compulsion to "complete" them. Hence, the Economist's apps don't include all the constantly updated content from the newspaper's Web site. This would drive completists nuts. They would literally never finish reading. (I skim Twitter. My friend Lex Friedman (@lexfri) reads it completely. This is the same split in approach and compulsion, dare I say.)

The Atlantic announced The Atlantic Weekly app today, which