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iBooks Photography Book Giveaway ‘Unravelling The Mysteries of the Little Black Box’
We highlighted this new book yesterday in our post here. Professional photographer and author Shaun Hines has created ‘Unravelling the Mysteries of the Little Black Box’, his new photo graphic novel available for download on iPad devices. Named both an Editor’s Choice Award winner and the 2014 runner-up in The Most Innovative App category by The Phoblographer, Unravelling the Mysteries of the Little Black Box provides users with an innovative and interactive tool for learning the ins and outs of their camera. Today, we have some promotional codes to giveaway. If you would like to be in with a chance to win a promo code for this book all we…
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Award-Winning Innovative And Interactive Book for Photographers Released
Professional photographer and author Shaun Hines today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Unravelling the Mysteries of the Little Black Box, his new photo graphic novel available for download on iPad devices. Named both an Editor’s Choice Award winner and the 2014 runner-up in The Most Innovative App category by The Phoblographer, Unravelling the Mysteries of the Little Black Box provides users with an innovative and interactive tool for learning the ins and outs of their camera. “It’s not very often that an innovative book for photographers makes a splash, but Unravelling the Mysteries of the Little Black Box is an eBook that will turn heads…
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iBook – Humans of New York
If you’re looking for a little ‘downtime’ this weekend, perhaps away from apps for a while, then why not take a look at this outstanding photographic iBook by Brandon Stanton – ‘Humans of New York’? Stanton has a unique technique or some might say ‘gift’. Essentially, he approaches total strangers on the streets of New York, asks if he may take their photograph and then asks them really quite intimate questions and it’s that intimacy that brings his subjects to reveal all manner of things and inevitably say ‘I don’t know why I’m telling you this’. Brandon Stanton is an interesting character, he has no formal journalistic training or photographic…
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All About The New iTunes U
The free iTunes U app gives students access to all the materials for your course in a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information Whether you’re taking a European history course in your spare time, learning Spanish in high school, or majoring in molecular biology at a university, you now have a powerful tool to help you get the most out of…
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New Apple Invitation For January 19, 2011
Apple has sent out invites today for a press event to be held in New York City next Thursday, January 19, 2011. There have been and still are many rumors circulating as to what Apple will be announcing. The most likely one though is that this event will concentrate on iBooks with education majoring. Steve Jobs was determined to ‘shake up’ the textbook market and perhaps this event will mark the start of that… We’ll be covering this event, so check back for that.
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iBooks iOS App Updated
As we’re sure you’re all probably aware, iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. Now though, this tremendous app has just been updated to version 1.5 and includes some ludicrously excellent features, check out What’s New below. This is a free app and you can download it here. What’s New • Nighttime reading theme makes reading books…
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Celebrate World Book Day With Random House On The iBookstore
Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers. Happy Apple “We are delighted that Apple’s…
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High Resolution Display May Well Be Coming To iPad 2 In Any Case
The rumors are still circulating, will the Apple iPad 2 actually have a higher resolution display or not? Some say no but many are now saying yes. The iBooks 1.1 application is being updated to support the higher resolution of 2048 by 1535 resolution, this is around the same resolution as the 27" Apple Cinema Display. There is also the additional rumor that the larger, 1536 pixel wide background tile would be app friendly in that it could scale to desktop resolutions, allowing a desktop app. This is still speculative but interesting nonetheless. With the iPad 2 expected to ship in late March or early April 2011, it won’t be…
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Cool – Apple Updates iBooks
As expected but even better than imagined, Apple has updated its iBooks App, now you can view and experience fully illustrated books, from children’s picture books to beautifully designed art books, available for download in the iBookstore. Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections. Print PDF documents and notes you’ve written in iBooks using AirPrint, this is the one we have really been waiting for and, not only all that but iBooks now fits more words per page by automatically hyphenating text, available only on iOS 4.2 or later. So what are you waiting for? Download link at the end of…
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Top Creative Books In The iBooks Store For Your iPad
Once you have downloaded the free iBooks app from the App Store you will want to start shopping for good books. I’ve selected thirteen gorgeous photographic books for you to view, I hope you enjoy them. Don’t forget that reading on iPad is just like reading a book. You hold your iPad like a book. You flip the pages like a book. And you do everything with your hands — just like a book. The high-resolution, LED-backlit screen displays every page beautifully. Vivid colors, rich illustrations, and crisp, sharp text make reading a joy. You can adjust the backlight brightness to read in low light. Tap the center of the…
