It turns out that it’s pretty simple to add media to your .epub iBooks, and by “pretty simple” I mean the HTML5 <video> tag.
Adding HTML5 Video to iBooks
Things Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for entering our huge giveaway of Things for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A big special thanks goes also to Cultured Code, who offered these tree licenses of Things to MacStories readers.
Here are the lucky winners:
Mac: Zac Harmany
iPad: Abraham Vegh
iPhone: Dan Palmer
Congratulations folks, you’ll receive your copy of Things soon. Until the next giveaway, take care!
Cappuccino gets NativeHost Component, Brings Web Applications to Desktop
Exciting times are ahead for Cappuccino, so I’m sure you already know about NativeHost. Wait, you don’t? Oh good, I have a story then. If you’ve never heard of Cappuccino, it’s an open-source application framework that utilizes web technologies, and is flavored with things like Apple’s Cocoa framework for example. But instead of specifically targeting the web, the folks working on Atlas (which itself is a Cappuccino application) found a way to distribute to the desktop environment with minimal work. NativeHost allows Cappuccino applications to, ya know, run natively as a desktop application. Cooked right in to both the Cappuccino build tools and the Atlas IDE, you’re welcomed to give it a try and read through all the “whys” and “hows” over at Cappaccino’s blog.
iBookstore Could Face Legal Hurdles in the UK
The iPad is coming out in the UK in two weeks and publishers are worried that Apple’s iBookstore model may be illegal. The Bookseller reports that various publishers are wondering whether what Apple did in the US for iBooks could work in the same way in the UK, considering the market differences and different laws.
Historic Apple Prototypes
People love when a big company such as Apple lose something as important as a next generation iPhone prototype. It’s the feeling of taking a look at something that shouldn’t be seen yet that make people love this stuff, and that’s the same reason why Gizmodo had millions of hits back in those Redwood days. People love to take a look at leaked products.
It’s not like Apple hadn’t lost anything before they lost the 4G prototype. Call them “controlled leaks” or just “leaks”, Apple’s labs are always working on new “gadgets” - 80% of which we’ll never see as actual consumer products. Macrumors has put together a brief gallery of “historic prototypes”, stuff that never officially left Cupertino’s secret caveau’s and that some brave people dared to post on Flickr. You can find the original post here.
Take a look at the pictures after the break. And the Mac tablet was so awesome.
BeeJive First Look for iPad
iPad Printing Using Mac OS X Server 10.6
Skype for iPad Coming This Summer
According to Skype’s Asia-Pacific VP, Dan Neary, Skype will have a native iPad version of its client out by this summer. The app currently works in compatibility mode, but users are forced to run it in double-pixel or mini mode.
Neary also hints at the upcoming iPhone “HD” with front facing camera and a new iPad with enhanced communication capabilities:
“We believe that video is part of the Skype experience,” says the VP, “and we believe that video is moving aggressively into the mobile environment, so stay tuned on an announcement on that.
I think the iPad is an incredibly exciting product but it is clearly not the same communications device in its current form that the iPhone is,” he says. “So we’re looking forward to further advancements in the iPad and where that can go in the future.”
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Apple Updates iWork Apps for iPad
Apple has just updated all the three iWork apps for iPad: Pages, Keynote and Numbers. All the updates seem to address stability and compatibility issues with iWork ‘09 files, you can find the changelogs after the break.