I've been going thought a learning phase this year. There have been so many new (at least to me) tools and products that finding time to research them and deciding if should spend my precious time on using them is a challenge. What I'm looking at now.... iBook Author. I'm currently (slowly) working on an eBook project and I'm using Pages as my writing tool because 1) I already have it and know it and 2) it can export directly to the ePub format. Now Apple comes along and creates their TextBook format along with the iBook Author tool which uses their own extensions. The draw for me is the media inclusion in the book of dynamic content. The map images, photos and videos are simple and know content types. What caught my eye was the HTML content is in the form of DashCode apps / widgets. This had led me down a different trail of finding out more about DashCode as it's dual use for iBook 2 and Safari mobile apps. I always like it when I can dou...
Just some random (isn't it all) thoughts and doings in my life.