iPhone Techie

  The Steve Jobs biography is starting to become available via the iBookstore. If you live in Australia you can get it already. Those in the United States will likely have to wait until midnight for their pre-order. From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented Read more…

Apple has updated iBooks to let you organize books and PDFs into collections and also gives you ability to print your PDF files and notes via AirPrint.

This update is 100% FREE so go ahead and get your iBooks updated today via Apple AppStore.

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
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A number of iOS 4-compatible apps are being distributed today, and now Apple’s iBooks application has gone universal as promised. The new version offers book syncing between the iPhone or iPod touch and the iPad, plus bookmark syncing (via iTunes) and a free copy of Winnie the Pooh.

The UI has a few subtle differences. When viewing the iBookstore from the iPhone, the icons across the bottom are Featured, Charts, Browse, Search and Purchases. On the iPad, they’re Featured, New York Times selections, Top Charts and Purchases. Read more…