WWDC June 2010: iBooks New Features!

Eric — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:43:11 +0000

New features and products, as mentioned in previous posts are going to discussed and highlighted during the WWDC June 2010 event that is being hosted right now by Steve Jobs. Many reporters, bloggers, and news people have crowded into the building to discuss the new product launches. In the WWDC 10 event held today, Steve Jobs announced the fact that the iBook’s app has been a success for since the launch of the iPad. More than 2 million iPads have been sold all world wide. There have been many new features that people have noted to be included with the iBooks app that they would want correlated.

This is why Apple has listened. Steve Jobs dicusses with us that iBooks has been revolutionized. With about 2.5 books per iPad downloaded, Apple has enhanced the following features into the iBooks apps.

They include the following:

In-line notes (similar to post-it notes) which makes reading easier for many folks
Now there is the ability to view and slect PDF’s inside of the iBooks
One can also navigate PDF works in the similar format of iBooks

Expose app for iPhone and iPod Touch

Hans — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:37:22 +0000

Steven Troughton-Smith, developer of the Stacks application has made an application called Expose for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This application is compatible with iPhone 3.1.2, and iPhone 3.1 firmware. It’s currently in beta, but Steven let me try it out. It worked perfectly on my iPhone 3GS! A screenshot of the Expose app can be seen in the above image. A video demo of the Expose app in action is in the YouTube video below.

I love this application! It works fine, saves you some time from scrolling back and forth too much, and does not lag at all. I’m surprised Apple never included this feature in the iPhone. Currently Steven Troughton-Smith is working on making this application faster, and he has not yet decided a release date for this. The name for this application is currently Expose but it will be changed to a different name once it’s released. This application will only be available on jailbroken iPhones. You can follow the development of this on Steven’s blog at http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com or follow him on twitter (@stroughtonsmith). Are you looking foward to the release of this application? What are your thoughts on this? For me, this is one of those apps that I believe it’s worth jailbreaking for!

Update: The Expose app is now called Orbit. It is available in the Cydia Store now for $1.99!

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