Apple has announced iBooks Author a free OS X app to create 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 ... Read More
Read the full story »Apple has posted a new beta of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7.3 for developers. The build, number 11D50, comes one week after the previous build, 11D46. The new version lists no known issues and again asks testers to focus on iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight, and Safari. MacRumors noted that this recent 10.7.3 build appears to be the final golden master version: “Build 11D42 contains what is likely to be the final release description for OS X 10.7.3: The ... Read More
Apple® today announced an all-new iTunes® U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® to teach and take entire courses. The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses including essential components such as lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses and offer them to millions of iOS users around the world. The iTunes U app gives iOS users access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational ... Read More
Apple® today announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don’t weigh down a backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin ... Read More
Das Keyboard, widely known for its clicky mechanical keyboard that has a cult-like following, today introduced a new version of its award-winning Model S keyboard designed to appeal to a fan base also known for its extreme loyalty – the Mac crowd. “Essentially, we’ve introduced the most advanced mechanical keyboard on the market designed specifically for Mac users.” The company’s new Das Keyboard Model S Professional for Mac is now available online for ... Read More
Henge Docks (www.hengedocks.com), the leading supplier of docking stations for Apple notebook computers, announces its latest addition, vertical Docking Stations for the MacBook Air, at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. The MacBook Air Dock allows users to incorporate the MacBook Air into a desktop setup or home theater system, so users get the best features of a laptop, desktop and media center PC all from one computer. The Vertical Docking Stations for the MacBook Air line are Henge ... Read More
The Magic Bar from Mobee Technology is the World’s First wireless charger dedicated for the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad. Plug the Magic Bar into a USB port on your computer and it’s ready to re-charge the Wireless Keyboard or Magic Mouse, wirelessly! A full charge takes six hours and can last for many days, depending on use. More info: www.mobeetechnology.com/the-magic-bar.html ... Read More
H.Samuel the jeweller has now launched an iPhone app, that’s completely free to download and has a number of features and benefits that shoppers can use when they’re on the go. Customers can shop the full range of watches, jewellery, diamonds, wedding rings, engagement rings, gifts and collectibles all from the iPhone app. The features of the free mobile phone app are easy to use when out and about. Customers can shop by categories such as gift finder, price, gifts for him or her and ... Read More
Analytics company Jefferies & Company analysts are predicting the arrival of Apple HDTV in 2012, according to t3.com “In terms of specs the analyst was unable to say anymore except that the screen would most likely be supplied by Sharp, it is unknown as to whether this will also feature 3D or what price-range Apple will be looking at, however if their displays are anything to go by, excpect it to be a premium priced product. One of the more interesting comments made by the ... Read More
Apple supplier and manufacturing partner Pegatron said 61 workers had been injured as a result of an explosion at a subsidiary’s metal casing factory in Shanghai, China., reports Apple Insider. “Pegatron Chief Financial Officer Charles Lin reported the incident, noting that the facility in question was still under construction, according to Reuters. 23 workers were hospitalized after the gas explosion, which occurred on Saturday at a metal casing factory belonging to Ri-Teng ... Read More
iPhone users can get a precise picture of any noise situation with inter·net2day’s iPhone App “Noise Hunter”. “The problem with measuring sound levels is that the usual instruments only determine the instantaneous sound level,” explains Werner Dworaczek, CEO of inter·net2day. This applies to real sound level meters up to the $100.- class as well as the currently available sound level metering apps. With such devices / apps the minimum and maximum sound ... Read More
RateTiger announced the launch of its RTSuite for Macintosh OS X. RTSuite, RateTiger’s premium rate shopping and channel management product has now been developed for Mac users. It will give hoteliers greater flexibility with rates and availability which they can now update via their MacBook. RateTiger is among the few channel management providers in the market to offer solutions across a wide variety of platforms including installable, web-based and mobile technology. This version ... Read More
Flipboard is porting it’s iPad magazine for the iPhone. Flipboard™, the popular social magazine created for Apple’s® iPad®, launches on iPhone®. Inspired by the beauty of print and the simple action of flipping pages, Flipboard gives readers one place to enjoy the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across social networks. And now, re-designed for when and where people use the phone, Flipboard for iPhone takes this a step further with a fast, beautiful interface ... Read More
Columbia Prep’s Growing Mac User Population Required Centralizing All Security and Access Policies to Simplify Administration and Manage Authentication SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems and applications using Active Directory, today announced that the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School (Columbia Prep) is leveraging its Centrify Suite ... Read More
On 13 December 2011 Sotheby’s New York is to offer the founding partnership agreement of the Apple Computer Company – the firm that revolutionized technology, business, personal computing and the world. The 1976 document, which once belonged to Ronald G. Wayne, one of Apple’s founders along with Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak, is the first chapter in the story of one of America’s most important companies. The contract, along with the agreement documenting Ron Wayne’s ... Read More
Google Search App for iPad now features instant previews, so there is no need to press the search button to get search results. Google Search app for iPad gives you with a simple home screen with a large search field for you to type your query. You can also search by using voice commands, once you enter your search term, results will start to display instantly as you type. http://itunes.apple.com/app/google-search/id284815942 ... Read More
Belkin provides consumers with the capability to instantly capture and share life’s most spontaneous moments with the newly announced LiveAction Camera accessories for the iPhone and iPod touch. Experience a better way to snap photos and record video with products including the LiveAction Camera Grip and LiveAction Camera Remote. Immediately share this digital content with the new LiveAction App. “With upgraded cameras, new phones like the iPhone 4S take great pictures and ... Read More
Apple is to require all apps available in the Mac App Store to be “sandboxed,” which Apple says is “a great way to protect systems and users by limiting the resources apps can access and making it more difficult for malicious software to compromise users’ systems.” “The vast majority of Mac users have been free from malware and we’re working on technologies to help keep it that way. As of March 1, 2012 all apps submitted to the Mac App Store must ... Read More
iPad 2 On Sale Tomorrow
