Inside Apple is a new book by Adam Lashinsky that takes a shot at revealing how the Cupertino company works from the inside out. A few excerpts have been released within the last couple days, but now, the whole book is available to everyone. According to the book’s description, “INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, [...]
Apple’s engineers and designers are world-renowned for their attention to details, but to what extent? Well according to Adam Lashinsky’s new Inside Apple book, the iPhone-makers have their own unboxing room — yeah, unboxing room. Bits and pieces of Lashinksy’s book have been surfacing on the web over the past two weeks. The leaks have [...]
Apple’s recent release of iBooks 2 has truly revolutionized the textbook industry, but the multi-touch experience in iBooks could use some major improvements. As it stands, Apple’s official eBook app is limited to one basic swiping motion between pages. The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence’s new patented multi-touch interface for eBooks, on the other [...]
Last Thursday, Apple took the stage at Guggenheim Museum in New York City to unveil its new educational content and publishing tools based on the iBooks platform. The event was centered around the releases of iBooks 2, iTunes U for iOS, and iBooks Author for Mac. And, as reported by AllThingsD, the response to the [...]
Yesterday, Apple held an event focusing on education at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum to unveil a couple of new products that are supposed to change education. Apple opened up the event with the video below, where teachers explained what is wrong with education and why many students do not get the fullest education offered — [...]
During its New York-based media event this morning, Apple announced its plans to get into the digital textbook publishing business. We have a good recap of the event in case you missed it, but the gist of it all is fairly straight-forward. Using new applications like iBooks 2 and iBooks Author, Apple plans to disrupt [...]
There’s been quite a bit to digest today regarding Apple’s excellent educational event. I think the rumors that we’d see a “Garageband” for iBooks pretty much panned out like we expected. To sort out all of the details, we’ve compiled a post explaining the highlights from Apple’s event, along with details on the software involved [...]
Were you one of the one’s that didn’t enjoy standing in the freezing cold in NYC waiting to be let into Apple’s Media event? If so, then you were likely relegated to taking in one of many “live blogging” sessions posted by various online tech blogs. For those of you wishing to consume the full [...]
Along with our hands-on video of iBooks 2, we’ve also tackled Apple’s latest content creation tool, iBooks Author. iBooks Author is the free Mac App Store app that allows you to create book content for use in iBooks. What’s great is that it’s not just for so-called textbooks. No, it’s for cookbooks, history books, picture [...]
Apple has posted a promotional video for their recently launched iBooks Textbooks feature, and you can watch it right now. As you’re no-doubt aware of, Apple hosted a media event this morning in NYC to unveil their new education initiative. We’ve tried the iBooks Textbooks ourselves, and we liked what we saw. Now you can [...]
