Tag: IBOOK

You may have heard that Apple introduced a new tablet computer called the iPad today. Our friends at Engadget are covering the heck out of the announcement. But one aspect I wanted to touch on was the launch of a new application designed specifically for the iPad, called iBooks. Basically iBooks is like iTunes for eBooks. Apple has reached deals with 5 major book publishers and starting today ...

Is it just me, or is the market for novel anti-theft apps for laptops exploding? Undercover is a program for Apple laptops from Orbicule that does a number of things to help you recover your laptop in the event of its theft. When the laptop boots, Undercover checks Orbicule's web server to see if you've reported your laptop missing. Once it knows it's been stole, Undercover begins doing all sorts ...

Yep, more fun with the built-in accelerometer ("sudden motion sensor") in Apple laptops: Pall Thayer has a Dashboard widget that looks and works just like a carpenters' level, showing the tilt of your PowerBook or iBook with a little virtual air bubble in a little virtual green glass vial. Available free from Thayer's site or from Apple. Cool. [Via kottke.org] ...

As perhaps you've read, Powerbooks and iBooks have built-in accelerometers that they use to detect sudden motion, i.e. when you drop your laptop. The Party at the Center of the Universe is a fun attempt to do something useful—well, not entirely useful—with that data. If you install the Party client on your Powerbook or iBook, it'll plot the data from your accelerometer alongside data ...