This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately.

General magazines

These publications appeal to a broad audience and usually include content about computer hardware and software and technology news. These magazines could also be called technology magazines because of the large amount of content about non-computer consumer electronics, such as digital audio player and mobile phones.

Bi-monthly

• IT Expert Magazine (United Kingdom)

Monthly

• Atomic MPC (Australia)

• APC (Australia)

• BUG Magazine (Croatia)

• Byte (United States) (discontinued)

• Chip (Germany)

• Chip-India (India)

• Monthly CNews (Bangladesh ("www.cnewsvoice.com")

• Monthly Computer Barta (Bangladesh (www.computerbarta.com("www.computerbarta.com")

• Computer Duniya (India)

• Computer Jagat (India)(www.computerjagat.org("www.computerjagat.org")

• Computer Power User (United States) aka CPU.

• Computer Scope (Ireland)

• Computer Shopper (United Kingdom)

• Computer Shopper (United States)

• Computer!Totaal (The Netherlands)

• Computer User (United States)

• Computerworld (United States, Denmark, Russia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia)

• Computing (Urdu Magazine) (Pakistan)

• Digit magazine (Sri Lanka)

• Digit (magazine) (India)

• F1 Magazine (Syria)

• LAPTOP Magazine (United States)

• Linux Journal (United States)

• Maximum PC (United States)

• MikroBitti (Finland)

• NetGuide (New Zealand, Australia)

• PC Advisor magazine (United Kingdom)

• PC Answers (United Kingdom)

• PCchip (Croatia)

• PC Format (United Kingdom, South Africa)

• PC Magazine (United States)

• PC Novice (United states)

• PC Plus (United Kingdom)

• PC Press (Serbia)

• PC Pro (United Kingdom)

• PCQuest(India)

• PC User (Australia)

• PC Utilities (United Kingdom)

• PC World (India)

• PC World (United States), (United Kingdom, India, Australia)

• Personal Computer World (United Kingdom)

• SmartComputing (United States)

• Vidi (Croatia)

• Windows Vista: The Official Magazine (United Kingdom)

• XAKEP, or Hacker (Russia)

• ZERO (Albania)

Fortnightly

• c't (Germany, Netherlands)

• Computeractive (United Kingdom)

Weekly

• Computerra (Russia)

• Computing (United Kingdom)

• Micro Mart (United Kingdom)

• Computer Weekly (United Kingdom)

• New Computer Express (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Popular Computing Weekly (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• RDCS Jaipur (India)

Topic-specific magazines

These publications are marketed towards people who are interested in a specific topic of computing.

Commodore Amiga

• Amiga Format (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Amiga Computing (United Kingdom, United States) (discontinued)

Apple Mac

• Call-A.P.P.L.E. (United States)

• MacLife Formally MacAddict (United States)

• MacCompanion (Internet)

• MacFormat (United Kingdom)

• MacUser (United Kingdom)

• Macworld (Australia, United States, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, United Kingdom)

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Web development

• .net (United Kingdom)

• Practical Webdesign (United Kingdom)

Computer modification

• Custom PC (United Kingdom)

• Maximum PC (United States)

• PC Extreme (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

Gaming

• ACE (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Computer and Video Games (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Computer Gamer (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Computer Games

• Computer Gaming World (now

Hosting

• Ping Zine Magazine (United States)

Internet

• Webuser (United Kingdom)

• First Monday (Internet) (Peer reviewed)

• Spider (internet magazine) (Pakistan)

Business

• "CIO (magazine)" (United States)

• eWeek (United States)

• InfoWorld (United States)

• InformationWeek (United States)

Music

• Computer Music (United Kingdom)

Mobile computing

• PC Today (United States)

Novice users

• First Glimpse (United States)

Retro computers

The following magazines cover topics related to classic computer makes such as the Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC. Many of these magazines are now discontinued as the computers they discuss are now out of production.

• .info (United States, Canada) (discontinued)

• Amiga Power (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Amiga Format (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Amiga Active (discontinued)

• Amiga Computing (discontinued)

• Amiga Survivor (discontinued)

• Amiga User International (discontinued)

• Amiga World (discontinued)

• Amstrad Action (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Amstrad Computer User (United States) (discontinued)

• Amtix! (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• A.N.A.L.O.G. (United States) (discontinued)

• ANTIC (United States) (discontinued)

• Atari User (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Page 6 (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Computing with the Amstrad CPC ( ) (discontinued)

• Commodore User (later renamed to CU Amiga Magazine) (discontinued)

• Your Sinclair (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Crash (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Retro Review Magazine (Portugal / United Kingdom) http://www.retroreview.com (sleeping)

• Zzap!64 (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

• Jurassic News (Italy) (monthly)

Partworks

The following magazines were published as partworks:

• The Home Computer Course (United Kingdom) (1983-1984)

• The Home Computer Advanced Course (United Kingdom) (1984-1985)

• Input (United Kingdom) (1984-1985)

• PC Ace (United Kingdom) (1999-2001)

Linux and open-source

The following magazines cover topics related to the Linux operating system (as well as other Unix based operating systems) and other forms of open-source/ free software. Some of these magazines are targeted a IT professionals (with an emphasis on the use of these systems in the workplace) whilst others are designed for home users.

• Enterprise open source journal (Internet)

• Free Software Magazine (Internet)

• Linux Format (United Kingdom)

• Linux Gazette (Internet)

• Linux Journal (United States)

• Linux Magazine (United Kingdom/Europe)

• Linux Magazine (USA) (United States)

• Linux User and Developer (United Kingdom)

• Linux Weekly News (Internet)

• Linux For You (India)

Sales

The following magazines cover computer, peripheral, software and service distribution, through all their aspects (marketing, strategy, channel, retail or wholesale).

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• , France, EMEA oriented

• Channel Insider, US and Europe

• , Dubai

• , France

• , Germany

• , Greece

• , Spain

• , Ukraine

• , India

• , Germany

• , the Netherlands

• , Belgium

• , Czech Republic

• , India

• , the Netherlands

• , Italy

• , Dubai

• , Austria

• CRN Magazine US, Europa and other countries

• , the Netherlands

• , Spain

• , Spain

• USA and Canada

• , Switzerland

• , Ireland

• , Sweden

• IT Bransjen, Norway

• , Germany

• , distributor-dedicated, EMEA region

• , Poland

• , Belgium

• , Switzerland

• , France

• , UK

• , South Africa

• , UK

• , Austria

• , Spain

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• , USA

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Academic journals

As well as consumer magazines there are a number of academic journals circulated in academic circles (normally associated with a governing body such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE). These magazines may cover several different topics as well as computing and often deal with more technical aspects of hardware and software.

• ACM Computing Reviews (United States) (ACM)

• ACM Queue (United States) (ACM)

• ACM Transactions on Graphics (United States) (ACM)

• American Programmer (United States)

• Computer (United States) (IEEE)

• Computer Graphics (United States) (ACM SIGGRAPH)

• C/C++ Users Journal (United States) (independent publisher)

• Dr. Dobb's Journal (United States) (independent publisher)

Other, now defunct, computer-related magazines

• Amstrad Action

• Ahoy!

• Amazing Computing

• C (Finland)

• CD-ROM Today

• Compute!

• COMPUTE!'s Gazette

• Computer Life

• Creative Computing

• Datamation

• Electronics today international (magazine) electronics magazine that also published early homebrew computer systems

• Family Computing (later Home Office Computing) home/educational-oriented magazine published by Scholastic, Inc.

• Free Software Magazine (China)

• Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

• Interface Age (United States)

• .info

• Kilobaud Microcomputing (United States)

• Microsystems

• Nibble

• The Rainbow

• RUN

• Sinclair User

• The One

• Zero

Computer magazine publishers

The following companies publish one or several computer related magazines. Some of these publishers produce computer magazines exclusively and most produce multiple magazines from this genre.

• Sandhills Publishing Company (United States)

• Newsfield Publications (United Kingdom)

• Future plc (United Kingdom)

See also

• List of disk magazines

• List of engineering journals and magazines