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Thursday, January 19, 2012

iBooks 2 on the Leash

Apple announced a new iBooks Author App on Thursday that makes creating an Apple ebook a drag-and-drop process.

Using the app, which was announced at the same time as a new textbook experience for iPad, users can drag a Word file into a book creation space. The app automatically determines the best way to lay out the book and creates appropriate sections and headers. Users can then drag and resize images within the text and add definitions, photo galleries, movies Keynote presentations and 3D objects.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

IOS App Review - Formula 1 2011

Just about everyone knows what a F1 car is. Even in the media, children’s books, and other sources, a generic racer is generally depicted as some variation of an F1 body-wise. As many racing enthusiast know, F1 racing digs so much deeper into the car and driver alike; F1 2011 by Codemasters aims to recreate this experience on the iOS platform. Even though it has a few problems here and there, the game still does have some good features that make it a well-played-out sim.  Read on for the full review: 

       Gameplay

F1 currently holds 2 modes of gameplay, time trial and grand prix, with the addition of the upcoming season mode:

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

App Review - iTeleport - VNC Review

This is one of the apps that will come handy. This app lets you connect to your computer either on Windows PC or with a Mac. When connecting to a Mac, the best feature for this app is that this require very minimal configuration since Mac already has built in VNC Server. You may just need to enable the screen sharing feature in you Mac and set your login securitites and your presto ready. If you have this app in your iOS device just open the app and go to the Discovered Section.