iTunes U App Released
Apple has released their iTunes U App for iOS, this helps expand the classroom learning environment to push away textbooks even further.
Educators can quickly and easily create, manage and share their courses, quizzes and handouts through a web-based tool and utilize content and links from the iTunes U app, the Internet, iBookstore? or the App Store as part of their curriculum. They can also upload and distribute their own documents such as Keynote, Pages, Numbers or books made with iBooks Author.
Features:
Free courses in a wide array of subjects
• Take free courses created and taught by instructors from leading universities and other schools
• See all assignments and updates from the instructor in one place, and check off assignments as you complete them
• Take notes and highlight text in iBooks and see them consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app
• Access course materials, including audio, video, books, documents & presentations, apps, and new iBooks textbooks for iPad
The world’s largest catalog of free education content
• Choose from more than 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology
• Browse collections from education and cultural institutions in 26 countries – including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress
Download it now from iTunes!
iBooks Author Released
Now we all can create iBooks for free 
Features:
- Apple-Designed Templates
- Beautiful text and layouts
- Multi-Touch widgets
- Export for iBookstore or iTunes U
Requires:
- Keynote ’09 for Keynote widgets
- iBooks 2 for previewing
- iTunes 10.5.3 for syncing
Download it now for free on the Mac AppStore
read moreiBooks 2 Released
As promised, Apple has released iBooks 2 to bring Textbooks to iOS.
Features:
• Download many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore
• In addition to standard text, the iBookstore also offers books that are fully illustrated, and enhanced with audio, video, and animation
• Experience gorgeous fullscreen Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad. These textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos, and more
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your collection
• Reorder your books on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category
• Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
• Change the font size and pick from six included type faces to make your books more comfortable to read
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
• Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the automatic
bookmark syncing feature
• Quickly find a specific page using the page navigator at the bottom of every page
• Read your books on white or sepia colored pages
• Switch to full screen to remove all distractions, or read in white-on-black with the nighttime mode
• Choose left or fully justified text layout from Settings
• Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Add books in the industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Add PDF documents to iBooks from Mail, or add them to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Print PDF documents and notes you’ve written in iBooks using AirPrint
• Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – such as speaking the words on a given page
iPhone 4S iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak
We are only days away now from an Untethered Jailbreak for the A5 processor. This includes the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. We now have video proof of an iPhone 4S jailbroken. The video was made by Chronic Dev Team member DHowett. Check it out you can clearly tell that this is an iPhone 4S running Cydia!
read moreMicrosoft Office On Your iPad
A company called OnLive has released an iPad app that gives you access to Microsoft Office in the Cloud. You can instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This virtualized copy of Windows 7 / Microsoft Office is streamed to your iPad directly from OnLive’s servers.
OnLive offers a couple of different plans including a FREE version that gives you 2 GB of secure cloud storage and access to your multi-touch OnLive Desktop, preloaded with Microsoft Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®. Sign up for free at www.onlive.com/desktop
