Austin, TX is known for it’s unique style and identity; a small town attitude with a big town style. This wonderful collection of photographs shows what makes Austin unique and desirable to live in.
That’s the opening slice of the App Store description for the Austin Pop Photography app for the iPad. I’ve been living in Austin for just about 10 years now. I’ve lived a fair few places around the world and I agree that Austin has a unique and appealing style to it. It’s a great town, the best I’ve ever lived in – so an app that claims to show off Austin’s true flavor is one that is instantly interesting to me.
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Highly regarded Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami isn’t releasing his next novel on hardcover or paperback. He’s releasing it exclusively on iPad, and including all the multimedia goodies that the platform allows.
Murakami’s novel, A Singing Whale, will feature video elements as well as orchestration by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto—an Academy Award winner for his work on The Last Emperor.
That’s a slice from a Gizmodo piece last week touting the upcoming arrival of this novel. A Singing Whale is now in the App Store, and is said to feature ‘beautiful illustrations, solemn music, and spectacular story …’.
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Apple’s iBooks app for the iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) has been updated, to Version 1.1.1. The list of changes in the new version is as follows:
- Double-tap an image within a book to view it in greater detail.
- Experience books that include audio and video.
- Enjoy substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs.
- Look-up definitions to English words inside books without a specified language.
- Addresses an issue that may have caused some book downloads to not complete.
- Includes many stability and performance improvements.
I honestly haven’t been using the app enough of late to really notice these enhancements (have been reading mostly standalone titles). If you’re a big iBooks user, let us know in the comments what you think of this latest update.
Amazon has unveiled its Kindle app for the iPad (and other tablet computers). In the shots I’ve seen so far it looks pretty much as you’d expect if you’ve ever used the Kindle app for the iPhone. The company’s description for the app talks of its beautiful user interface that includes:
- Tailored to the size, look, and feel of your tablet computer
- Customize background color and font size to ease eye strain
- Adjust screen brightness from within the app to make reading easier
- Page turn animation replicates the look of turning a page in a book. Or choose Basic Reading
- Mode for a simpler and unadorned reading experience
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