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Mac – iBooks Author
Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author. Free/download here Apple Designed Templates • Give your book a great beginning with templates that…
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Apple Announces iBooks 2 As Well As iTunes U Updates
Apple have just finished their educational event in New York and with that we now know for sure the iBooks 2 has been launched. This now includes a new Textbook category, that you can view here. The entire point of the update is to bring the iPad more into the classroom. “Authors are going to love to use iBooks Create to create not only textbooks, but any kind of book”, Schiller explained today. It also supports Microsoft Word format and the app is clever enough to automatically create sections and headers and lay out the pages automagically when you drop a Word document onto the chapter. Apple has announced that initially senior…
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iOS – Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game for iPhone – Review
We reviewed the iPad version of this app last year (you can read that here) but this purpose built iPhone version is brand new and offers even greater portability. Read our review as we take a deeper look into the new version of this classic art game. This game has a great history to it which Thomas Hoving (who is the author of the book upon which the app is based) explains in the foreword to the app. "I was introduced to it (this game) when I joined the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Once a week, at morning coffee a different curator would bring a bunch of…
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A+ Signature iOS App Review
A+ Signature leverages the power of the iPhone’s (or iPad’s) electrostatic capacitance type screen to add signatures or text to images. There are a lot features, including a raft of characters such as smileys, hearts, stars. But, it’s the addition of a copyright sign to add a watermark to images prior to emailing, say, to a client for approval that makes it standout as an app for photographic professional users. Read our exclusive review below. Ease Of Use What’s really attractive is the ease with which the text or signature can be positioned and resized using pan and pinch gestures. The price is worth it alone for those features. As…
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hungryhouse iPhone App Review
If you reside in the UK and you enjoy takeaway food and who doesn’t? Then you might want to check out the hungryhouse iPhone app as you can place orders for delivery to your home even while you’re stuck on the train enroute. hungryhouse.co.uk is the UK’s leading takeaway delivery portal. More than a just a restaurant directory – it’s a more convenient way to find a restaurant and order a delivery. Customers can browse menus of every cuisine, read reviews, and order online from a rapidly growing selection of the best local delivery services. Sound good? Well it is, read our comprehensive review below and download this app to…
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Dragon Dictate For Mac – Software Review
It’s becoming increasingly common for voice activated products to become part of our everyday lives but you may not of realized that Nuance originally created software allowing you to boss your computer around many moons ago. This software has been updated to version 2.5 and we set about putting it through its paces. Read our review below… Dragon Dictate literally allows you to dictate to your Mac, but not only full scale documents but also to switch around applications too. The original idea behind this software was that trying to find the correct letters on a keyboard can slow you down and disrupt your creative thought process. This is…
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Soocial iOS App Review
If you’re worried about losing all of your contacts in your address book then you need Soocial. It’s a free app that synchronizes your iPhone address book to their online service called Soocial.com. As well as that Soocial syncs with your Mac, Gmail, Yahoo!, Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Outlook and more. Soocial has some really great features including the facility to share parts of your address book with other people, this is tremendously useful for groups of people sharing the same interests/groups etc. We recently interviewed the developers of this unique app, you can read that here, but this article is about how to get the most from this intriguing…
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FlickStackr iOS App Review
FlickStackr for iPhone or iPad brings photo sharing to your mobile device. It offers the facility to browse photos from Flickr, upload your own photos, view EXIF data and more. We wanted to put this app through its paces to see if it really worked as well as we have been led to believe, don’t miss our review below. If you would like to download it, it’s a good time as the developers are currently offering it with 50% off, click here to download. Version Category: Photography Updated: September 7, 2011 Version: 1.9.1 Developer: iPont Software Rated: 4+ Price: Currently on sale at $0.99/£0.69 – 50% off Our Rating: Highly…
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Fontify – iOS App Review
Fontify has just arrived on the Apple App Store today and we believe it is an app that will become very popular in a short space of time. There are several reasons for that and you will find them within our review below but perhaps first and foremost it is the fact that this app is truly innovative. We have not come across a similar app and that fact combined with its slick interface, we are sure will guarantee it a place in the all important Apple charts soon. We have recently published our exclusive interview with the developers of this unique app, see here. Category: Productivity Released: August 17,…
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TiltShift Generator – Fake Minature – iPhoneography Review
Developer: Art and Mobile Version: 1.55 Updated: July 09, 2011 TiltShift Generator – Fake Minature – $0.99/Download here TiltShift Generator – Fake Minature is a cool little app that apes the hugely popular miniature-look to photos, an effect usually created by pricey tilt&shift lenses and view cameras. Originally available as a web service using Adobe Air, TiltShift Generator is now available for the iPhone and iPad. Although TiltShift Genator – Fake Minature can apply the effects to any images on your Camera Roll, it’s particularly useful with the more portable iPhone however, as the app integrates seamlessly with the built-in camera and the effects can be seen in seconds. If…
