Why Write Your Own Book When An Algorithm Can Do It For You? Phil Parker is unlike any writer you've ever met - or read for that matter. That's because he doesn't write most of his books. Instead, the trained economist uses sophisticated algorithms that can pen a whole book from start to finish in as little as a few minutes. The secret is sophisticated programming mimicking the thought process behind formulaic writing. It can take years to create these programs, but once completed, new books can be churned out in minutes. This method has led to Parker's company - ICON Group International Inc - auto-writing more than a million titles, mostly nonfiction books on very specific subjects. But there's poetry, too - see an example at right. Parker's work isn't publishing's first foray into auto-writing, but up until now, most, like companies like Chicago-based Narrative Science and North Carolina’s StatSheet, focused on short, formulaic sports and crime writing for newspapers, not full-length books.
Writing By The Numbers All About The Algorithm. How to Make a Talking Book Cover. The Espresso Book Machine. 5 Model iPhone Apps You Can Create With No Coding Skills Required. In this follow-up article, I will share five model iPhone applications developed using Buzztouch. While these apps are not at the top of any iTunes Store List, you will see how they are useful for niche markets, organizations, clients, and the like. Imagine not only handing your clients your business card but also a portfolio mobile app of your work.
Or what about turning your business PDF guide or ebook into an app? It’s really simple with Buzztouch. All the following apps make use of over a dozen Buzztouch tools and templates for app creation. Let’s examine how these developers used these tools. 101 Keyboard Shortcuts For Mac 101 Keyboard Shortcuts makes creative use of nearly all the Buzztouch tools, including a quiz game, custom HTML pages for the shortcut instructions, and the sharing tool properties for the social networking menu items. Similar menus are built in for Twitter and Facebook sharing, with a pre-written message about the app for easy user sharing. ERres Light Travel eBook. How To Create An iPhone Or Android App Without Any Coding Skills.
But if you’re really eager to make a mobile app based on your website, business, organization, or just a fun quiz game, a website called Buzztouch may well be the web-based solution for you. Buzztouch is essentially Content Management Software for iOS and Android. It provides a template-based process in which you import your app’s information into the online software, and in turn it will create the code that you need to compile the data for your application. I gave a try and it does work. How to Create an App – What You Need MUO has previously covered the steps on how to create a simple iPhone app and submit it iTunes. The tools Buzztouch provides are totally free. However, beyond Buzztouch, you will need a copy of Xcode on your Mac. Developing Your App Buzztouch provides some excellent video tutorials for developing your iPhone application. You start off the process by creating a name for your site.
Next, you need to add a logo for your app. Compiling Code. Create Your Own Smartphone App With Infinite Monkeys – No Coding Knowledge Required. It would be great if we all had the time, skills, and patience to learn computer coding, especially since technology pervades so many areas of our life. But thankfully, there are applications and web developers out there who provide ways for the rest of us to produce apps with little or no coding skills.
Back in June, I reviewed one such web application called Buzztouch, which is designed to allow anyone to create their own smartphone application. Now a similar program has just been released called Infinite Monkeys, a web-based tool geared toward niche communities who want to share content on the iPhone and Android platforms. Infinite Monkeys is not as polished theme wise as Buzztouch, but unlike the latter, Infinite Monkeys, says the developers, “Is completely web-based, and works on any computer or tablet device. You never touch the source code and don’t have to know what it is or how it works.” Web-based GUI Building An App Core Content Publishing App. iTunes - Partner Programs - Book Publishers. iTunes Connect. iOS Newsstand Tutorial - Viggiosoft Blog. A new way to distribute magazines Since the beginning of the iPad era, one of the most appreciated features in the tablet has been the possibility to read magazines and newspapers.
Practically all major publishers (and a lot of minor) have created their own magazine and newspaper apps and the first in-house experiments have grown with increasingly better applications. Besides a lot of software companies followed this path, the major ones by providing their own publishing system and a lot of other start-ups simply exist to offer their services to create custom apps for their customers. While Apple in the time applied several regulations, e.g. limiting the possibility to purchase issues outside the In App Purchase system, or introducing a subscription mechanism, it behaved before iOS 5 mainly as an observer, limiting its own participation in the app arena with the iBooks app, dedicated to books.
So how a Newsstand app differ from other apps? Application setup Basic app Enabling for Newsstand. Reading & Writing Apps. iPad App Development : How to create iPad Apps | Best iPad Apps, Cases and Development. המדריך המלא למפתח האפליקציות הטרי - סמארטפון. הציפורים השמנמנות שעפות באוויר ומתרסקות על חזירים מרושעים, הצליחו לא רק להכניס לקופתה של חברה פינלנדית קטנה בשם רוביו 100 מיליון דולר ב-2011 לבדה, אלא גם להצית את דמיונם של מיליונים ברחבי העולם. בהשקעה צנועה יחסית (140 אלף דולר), הצליחה אפליקציה אחת קטנה בשם אנגרי בירדז לכבוש 600 מיליון מכשירי סלולר בעולם - והיד עוד נטויה. כמה נטויה? שוק אפליקציות המובייל צפוי להגיע להיקף של 25 מיליארד דולר עד 2015 לעומת 6.8 מיליארד דולר ב-2010- כך לפי דו"ח שפירסמה באחרונה חברת המחקר האמריקאית MarketsandMarkets.
לאור הנתונים האלה, ברור שהמירוץ אחר האפליקציה הפופולרית הבאה מתקיים בכל העולם. את השאיפה הישראלית לפתח אפליקציה חווה השבוע גם שר התקשורת משה כחלון, כשביקר בפתיחת הביתן הישראלי בתערוכת הסלולר הגדולה בעולם בברצלונה. אמנם חלק מהחברות עוסקות בתחומים עתירי פיתוח טכנולוגי שקשורים לעולם תשתיות התקשורת, שמזוהים באופן מסורתי עם ישראל. 1. יש לכם רעיון מהפכני שהולך לשנות את עולם הרשתות החברתיות של הכלבים, או אולי לאפליקציה מבוססת מיקום לשיתוף מכוניות לגיל השלישי? 2. ובכל זאת, איך יודעים שהרעיון שלכם טוב?