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O’Reilly releases Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide

leopardbook 20071107 214813 OReilly releases Mac OS X Leopard Pocket GuideO’Reilly today announced the release of Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide OReilly releases Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide. This new book by Chuck Toporek comes with more than 300 tips and techniques and covers all the details necessary to learn Leopard’s new features, configure your system, and get the most out of your Mac.

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A new book from one of our own ‘Mercs helps you get your site iPhone-ready

mobilesafaribook 20071104 140211 A new book from one of our own Mercs helps you get your site iPhone readyWe all know that Mobile Safari, the browser found in the iPhone and iPod Touch, does not support Flash, but what other considerations should webmasters make when optimizing their sites for these new multi-touch web devices? Our own August Trometer has recently had a written work published under the title Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari: Ensuring Your Website Works on the iPhone and iPod touch that will answer that and other questions.

The “Digital Short Cut” from InformIT sells for USD$9.99 and covers such topics as:

  • Ways to detect Mobile Safari, using JavaScript and PHP

  • How to serve up a style sheet that’s Mobile Safari-specific to ensure your website is viewable on the iPhone and iPod touch
  • Mobile Safari-specific CSS attributes that take advantage of Safari’s WebKit
  • Which MIME types are supported–and more importantly, not supported–by Mobile Safari
  • How to create video content for viewing in Mobile Safari

If you have a website, Mac-centric or otherwise, you owe it to yourself to be aware of the differences in the way the web is viewed on used on these devices. They are changing our online world, doesn’t it make sense that you be ready with a few well made changes of your own?

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iLounge.com updates its Free iPod Book

ipodbook33 20070817 212418 iLounge.com updates its Free iPod BookThe editors of iLounge have remedied the omission of the actual Apple iPhone from the previous version of The Free iPod Book with the release of 3.3, an updated, iPhone-friendly 244-page edition in Adobe PDF format. Available immediately for download in versions viewable on any PC or Macintosh computer, The Free iPod Book 3.3 is packed with hands-on iPhone and accessory information, and can be downloaded as a special version optimized for reading on the iPhone itself.

iLounge’s popular 2007 iPod Buyers’ Guide and past editions of The Free iPod Book can also be downloaded at no charge.

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