Self-published authors can see their work on the iPad
Self-publishing service Smashwords, Smashwords, a site where writers can publish their own e-books, as signed a distribution deal with Apple to put its books into the iPad iBookstore.
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‘MUG Event Calendar’: Dave Marra, Skype, more
As the world counts down the days to the iPad launch, the MUG Event Calendar is quiet, but not silent.
Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will present to a group in New Jersey, a group in New Zealand will demonstrate Skype, and a Colorado group will talk about Facebook. A Connecticut group will discuss archiving web pages, an Ohio group will help increase the performance of their members’ Macs, and a Pennsylvania group will discuss both QuickBooks and Stuffit Deluxe 2010.
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Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Color me this
Every weekday I produce a five minute enhanced audio podcast on several top Apple stories of the day. As a result, even though I’ve a catalogue of images that I have built for the show. However, with every episode I have to produce a few more for new stories. For the last several months I have been using Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com, created by New Zealand based Ambient Design Ltd. to accomplish this task.
“Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.”
Read MoreScreencast looks at iPhone game programming
A screencast by Pearson looks at “Learning iPhone Game Programming.” You can find it here: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=9e7d48e6-ff5b-46de-bd20-25ea1a4e8c6a
Author Mike Daley provides an overview of his book, “Learning iPhone Game Programming.” The screencast shows you some basics on writing ames on the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad.
Daley currently runs the Europe Middle East and Africa Sales Consultant Product Specialists group for Oracle Communications. He’s been programming games since getting his first Sinclair Spectrum 48k computer in 1983.
Read MoreBBC iPhone apps postponed
The BBC says (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8593206.stm) its plan to launch iPhone apps for its news and sport content have been put on hold by its governing body.
The BBC Trust has asked the BBC to postpone its plans while it looks into the business case for the new services. The free applications were due to be released in April but have met with criticism from groups who say they will skew the market for news apps.
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