prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2013 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-57270.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-57270.htm Mon, 06 May 2013 06:00:00 CST Author Pamela E. Cash announces that Chausiku: The Gathering Storm Book One is now available on iBooks. It is the first book available in the series. The book tells the story of Chassie Moreau, who woke up the morning of her 16th birthday believing that she would celebrate the day with her best friend John as a normal teenager but she was dead wrong. Instead, Chassie found out that she and John were far from being normal and that she was now in extreme danger. http://prmac.com/release-id-57056.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-57056.htm Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:30:00 CST Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone today announces Imagining a tomorrow for iPad. The protagonist suffers from a toothache, try to get distracted thinking about a novel that he has read recently. But he is plagued by a malaise in the society in which he lives and he really wants to escape and abandon everything and everyone. After several misadventures, with his small boat moves away into open sea. Here he meets a siren that makes him an inhabitant of a wonderful underwater world. http://prmac.com/release-id-56953.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-56953.htm Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:30:00 CST Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone announces A World of Happiness for iOS, the story of a man who is a misfit and is discontent with the kind of life he is living. He decided to build a small boat to venture into the sea. But, before he could realize his dream, he tries to re-enter the world of work. But the call of the sea can't keep him away. So, he resigns from work and with his small boat goes to sea, where unknown worlds await him. http://prmac.com/release-id-56656.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-56656.htm Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:10:00 CST Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone announces We knew that... 1.0 for iPad. A narrator tells of a novel he read. Anna and Lucia are two girls of Italian origin, who after having spent a childhood and boyhood, serene and happy in Borneo discovered a love affair between their parents. The narrator, disappointed and unhappy with his life, has only one love: the sea. He ventures alone away from the coast and meets a beautiful mermaid who invites him to go and live in her amazing underwater world. http://prmac.com/release-id-56184.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-56184.htm Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:00:00 CST Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone today announces Imagining of tomorrow for iPad. This book is divided into two parts. In the first a narrator tells the moving story of two girls. In the second part, the narrator talks about his life, his malaise in society and his desire to escape. He will find happiness in an underwater world, but it will be only a dream. This book is dedicated to women simple, but clever, and to men humble, not arrogant, but strong and self-confident. http://prmac.com/release-id-56024.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-56024.htm Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:00:00 CST Author Pamela E. Cash announces that Chausiku: The Gathering Storm Book One is now available on iBooks. It is the first book available in the series. The book tells the story of Chassie Moreau, who woke up the morning of her 16th birthday believing that she would celebrate the day with her best friend John as a normal teenager but she was dead wrong. Instead, Chassie found out that she and John were far from being normal and that she was now in extreme danger. http://prmac.com/release-id-55515.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-55515.htm Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:20:00 CST Kopf Digital Publishing introduces "Wine Aromas," its new multi touch book for iPad. From fruity, citrus to barrique, Wine Aromas is an interactive, animated iBook on how to smell and talk about wine aromas. If you have always looked for a nice wine book that is not boring, then this book is just the right thing for you. With 37 pages full of lovingly illustrated images and animations, you will certainly quickly realize why smelling the wine really matters. http://prmac.com/release-id-53987.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-53987.htm Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:25:00 CST Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. today announces the interactive book, iOS Deployment: A Guide to Managing iPad, iPhone and iPod touch in Your Organization 1.1, now available for free on the iBookstore. The book created with iBooks Author provides a complete picture of how Apple iOS devices can be integrated and managed effectively within an organization. Readers will learn what they can expect during the critical initial setup and how to avoid possible pitfalls throughout deployment. http://prmac.com/release-id-53215.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-53215.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:00:00 CST Zoomable Media and media and technology education expert Greg Beck have used iBooks Author to create "The Digital Storytelling Guide: Using the iPad as a Portable Studio," the essential owner's manual for anyone seeking to record, edit, and publish video with an iPad. In nine chapters, students will learn the technical capabilities of the iPad. The Guide contains over 50 video examples of video techniques and tips, focusing particularly on the "grammar" of video. http://prmac.com/release-id-52623.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-52623.htm Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:46:00 CST American Accent Fundamentals, the first multi-touch iPad ibook for American accent training, helps readers learn the principles of American speech in a fun and interactive way. This media-rich iBook offers more than 120 pages packed with interactive features, including videos, slideshows, audios, quizzes, and visual graphics, designed to highlight the fundamental rules underlying American speech. It's the interactive features that make this book unique. http://prmac.com/release-id-51583.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-51583.htm Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:55:00 CST KH Creative, LLC announces the release of ABCs of Computing 1.01 on the iBookstore, written and illustrated by Kyle Hilla, founder of Apptopus, Inc., maker of CollabraCam a social video production app for iOS. The author will donate portion of iBook sales to Grand Rapids Public Library. ABCs of Computing is a tongue-in-cheek overview of modern computing in an easily digestible and fun format with a little something for everyone, from the newbie to the tech-savvy. http://prmac.com/release-id-51486.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-51486.htm Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:00:00 CST Kopf Digital Publishing releases "Solid Figures," a new enhanced iBook on mathematics and 3D geometry. Featuring 3D Collada and interactive images, Solid Figures explains basic solid figures, including the cone, prism, cylinder, pyramid and sphere. Each chapter handles one solid figure and shows how to calculate the area and volume. The interactive images denote the necessary values like height, length etc. whereas the 3D Collada images allow to rotate & view the solid figure in all directions. http://prmac.com/release-id-51229.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-51229.htm Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:30:00 CST Learn photography with a book created exclusively for iBook on iPad. Packed with interactive samples "Starting a Hobby - Digital Photography" will give readers all the understanding they need to begin the art of photography. All the controls in a DSLR camera are directly mapped to a basic concept in photography like aperture, exposure time or ISO. Knowing those basic concepts is the only thing readers need to move ahead from auto mode and enjoy the full power of DSLR cameras. http://prmac.com/release-id-47471.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-47471.htm Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:00:00 CST Canadian-based Interactive Elementary has released two new resources for Apple's iPad while also adding features to its flagship educational application, Middle School Math HD. Jacob's Angle, an iBook, tells the story of a grade school shot put competition while relating basic geometry concepts. Geared for students aged 9-12, Jacob's Angle includes Keynote slideshows, animations, and several reading comprehension widgets, which allow students to monitor their understanding as they read. http://prmac.com/release-id-46845.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-46845.htm Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:00:00 CST "Developing iOS 5 Applications" by White and Chudzynski is intended to get new iOS developers started creating apps of their own using iOS 5. The basic concepts needed to get started developing apps are presented within the context of five App development projects. The authors make extensive use of screenshots throughout the development of the projects presented in the iBook chapters so that readers are easily able to understand new concepts and successfully develop the apps described. http://prmac.com/release-id-45771.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-45771.htm Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:30:00 CST Mobile app developer, Empatika today introduces Memory Training Program, a new interactive self-help book for iPad. Memory Training Program helps to improve memory, attention, concentration, develop imagination and increase brain power. Featuring memory techniques developed by military psychologists, the book includes built-in exercises for better memory practice and an overview of different memory techniques used by Intelligence Services officers. http://prmac.com/release-id-45171.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-45171.htm Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:00:00 CST MultiEducator today announces American Presidential Elections: From Washington to Obama 1.1 for iOS, an update to their Reference app that is also available as an eBook. Featuring comprehensive coverage of all 56 presidential elections, the app includes 400+ photos and illustrations, 20 historic video clips, the upcoming presidential election of 2012, and overviews of the issues and events of every election in U.S. history, including charts of popular votes, electoral votes, and states carried. http://prmac.com/release-id-45079.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-45079.htm Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:00:00 CST "Developing iOS 5 Applications" by White and Chudzynski is intended to get new iOS developers started creating apps of their own using iOS 5. The basic concepts needed to get started developing apps are presented within the context of five App development projects. The authors make extensive use of screenshots throughout the development of the projects presented in the iBook chapters so that readers are easily able to understand new concepts and successfully develop the apps described. http://prmac.com/release-id-44312.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-44312.htm Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:00:00 CST Luis A. Gutierrez today introduces Super Apps, a book about the history of Apple's App Store. Written by AppPicker's founder, the book covers the App Store and provides a marketing guide for developers to successfully promote their apps. The book also memorializes the key events which made the App Store a phenomenal success. Gutierrez compares and contrasts some of the earliest, best and biggest flops the store has seen. http://prmac.com/release-id-43967.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-43967.htm Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:00:00 CST Alexander/Swift announces iBook Beyond Ellis D, their iBook for iOS. Three new animated short films voiced by Dock Ellis form the anchor of author Donnell Alexander's interactive look behind the myth of the LSD no-no. The Pittsburgh Pirates legend pitched astride the fault line of free agency, bringing the psychedelic experience to the civil rights movement and old-school baseball to the '70s. http://prmac.com/release-id-43119.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-43119.htm Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:00 CST Brite Kids today is pleased to launch Vixes, an amazingly bright and addictive interactive book for children ages 2 to 7 years old. The application is an interactive book that tells us a story about two little vixes, funny creatures from the Snorarium world: Villie and Allie, who are willing to become Dream Deliverers with the help of little players. The game involves children in the exciting game process making them think, tap, swipe, shake and turn the device and finally make them happy. http://prmac.com/release-id-43106.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-43106.htm Tue, 22 May 2012 09:00:00 CST The Spider Who Had Never Spun a Web - Download this free interactive App and iBook from the iTunes store. The iBook can be read on an iPad with iBooks 2 and the App has even more interactive features such as touchable backgrounds, sound and the ability to record your own version of the story to playback. A great interactive story for children. An interactive book with the ability to record your own voice. Join our hero, the spider, who has never been able to spin a web. http://prmac.com/release-id-41544.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-41544.htm Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:00:00 CST Mach Software Design today announced that it has three full audio-narrated educational interactive textbooks now available; targeted at the 4th to 7th grade. The textbooks use iBooks 2.0 and feature many innovative features such as full audio narration, simplified concepts, interactive diagrams, galleries, quizzes, live web content, and loaded with tons of stunning video. "Natural Science" covers Earth and Life Science, with "Natural Science" split into two more affordable textbook versions. http://prmac.com/release-id-41535.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-41535.htm Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:00:00 CST Zoomable Media and master history teacher Brian Hurd have collaborated to create "The Last Full Measure," a beautiful multi-touch textbook available on Apple's iBookstore for immediate preview, purchase, and download. It features descriptions of 101 essential events, people, places, and concepts of the Civil War, and is copiously illustrated with high resolution pictures and maps, each including audio captions of interesting facts and little-known details of the war. http://prmac.com/release-id-41269.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-41269.htm Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:30:00 CST Slavamax b.v.b.a. has announced Little Red-Cap, an enhanced edition of a read aloud book for iOS. Little Red-Cap is a beautiful classical interactive version of "Little Red-Riding-Hood" with a Happy Ending. This e-book can be read aloud with words highlighted along with pleasant atmosphere of background music. Children can read along with professional narration and pleasant background music. Words highlight to follow the story with Interactivity on every page and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-41088.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-41088.htm Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:20:00 CST Diehard Studio Entertainment releases the Mutant League Sketchbook App for the iPad. These are the original illustrations by Mutant League television series Art Director Dwayne Ferguson. If you enjoy seeing other artist sketches and get inspired, then this book is for you. Fans from around the world of the hit animated series can now enjoy the sketches of their favorite series and own it in their very own collection. http://prmac.com/release-id-36897.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-36897.htm Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:15:00 CST Rod Cambridge has now self-published his follow up entitled How NOT To Use Your Smartphone. Identity thieves can do an awful lot of bad once they have your information. In this book, computer security expert Rod Cambridge exposes the dangers of getting hacked and being made a victim of identity theft through your smartphone. Rod also provides practical solutions, tips, and advice to help stop the bad guys making you a victim of various types of fraud all through your smartphone or tablet. http://prmac.com/release-id-33314.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-33314.htm Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:00:00 CST Mariner is expanding its reach into the creative writing market by forming a partnership with the online publishing company _trekden. Together, Mariner and _trekden will form the complete experience for writers. StoryMill, the popular novel writing software from Mariner, now includes an integrated Publish feature, providing free editing and publishing services through _trekden. When using Mariner's StoryMill, writers will be able to bring their story from conception to completion. http://prmac.com/release-id-31255.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-31255.htm Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CST Portland based developer, Inkstone Software today introduces eBook Search 1.0, their new book discovery application for iOS devices. With eBook Search, readers are no longer limited to the books available in one reader app. It allows users to tap into a library of over 2 million books, while also giving people the power to download a book to their choice of reader app, like iBooks, Kindle, Nook, or Kobo, and all at the touch of a button. http://prmac.com/release-id-30456.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-30456.htm Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:30:00 CST Best known as the third forgotten founder of the Apple Computer Company, Ronald G. Wayne has written an autobiography that is now available at booksellers everywhere. Ron was instrumental in the creation of the formation of the company, but walked away from the tech start-up just weeks after it was established. "Adventures of an Apple Founder" offers insight into the experiences that informed his decision to participate, as well as to leave a short time later. http://prmac.com/release-id-20060.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-20060.htm Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:25:00 CST Potrus Publishing Interactive today announces that their series of classic fable iBooks will be offered at a discount for the duration of the holiday season. Comprised of six timeless Grimm Brothers fairy tales, these interactive children's iBooks for the iPad will be offered on discount until January 1st, 2011. This includes developers' interactive iPad optimized renditions of Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Pigs, The Frog King, Little Red Riding Hood, and Puss in Boots.