Apple to revolutionize textbooks with “GarageBand for e-books,” says report
For its big education-related announcement in New York City this Thursday, January 19, Apple may be planning to unveil new tools that would make it easy for publishers and authors to create interactive textbooks.
That’s according to Ars Technica, which points to sources that describe Apple’s plans for a “GarageBand for e-books” — in other words, software for interactive e-books that would be as easy to use as the company’s renowned music software.
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Instagram is Apple’s No. 1 app of 2011 in a year heavy on fun and sharing
If you made plans for your weekend, you might want to kiss them goodbye. Apple yesterday released its iTunes Rewind 2011 list, with the 40 top iPhone and iPad apps of the year. The iTunes store now has more than 500,000 apps in it, but this year’s top apps list shows that fun is the dominant theme. Games and social networking tools dominated, and photo sharing tool Instagram was chosen as the No. 1 app … Continue Reading
GarageBand music recording app comes to iPhone and iPod
Apple’s popular music app GarageBand is making the leap to the iPhone and iPod Touch today with an update, version 1.1. Pre-loaded on all Apple computers as part of iLife, GarageBand features a wide variety of professional-quality instruments, which users can play on a timeline to make songs of their own. GarageBand also lets you record vocal tracks, so the app constitutes a self-contained recording studio.
“GarageBand on iPad has been a big hit and … Continue Reading
Apple announces iLife '11 with new iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand (video)
Apple today announced the latest version of its flagship software suite, iLife ’11, at its “Back to the Mac” event. The suite includes 2011 versions of iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and more.
Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller demonstrated the new features in iPhoto ’11, which seems to be taking some cues from iPad applications with its new fullscreen mode. He showed off the new places view, which plots your photos on a world map using … Continue Reading
