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Help. Friends. Is that a phone book in your pocket, darling? | Spotlight Online. When Nick Cave wrote The Death of Bunny Munro, he and his British publisher, Canongate Books, worked with a multimedia company to develop an app for the iPhone that included not just the novel but also videos, music composed by Cave, and audio of the author reading the book. "What you can do with graphics and moving images creates a lot of possibilities for a publisher that have never existed before," Canongate's Jamie Byng told The Scotsman. Publishers are now rushing to develop new forms of books for readers who want to see them on smartphones.

One out of every five new applications introduced for the iPhone last month was a book, according to Flurry, a research firm that studies mobile trends. Companies like EnhancedEditions, BeamItDown and ScrollMotion, which create and sell books in the form of applications, are suddenly doing good business. Software → touché. Nov 1, 2008 Version 1.0b3 MacOS 10.5.3 and later Download Version History Visit Google Code Page Watch Videos Touché is a free, open-source tracking environment for optical multitouch tables. It has been written for MacOS X Leopard and uses many of its core technologies, such as QuickTime, Core Animation, Core Image and the Accelerate framework, but also high-quality open-source libraries such as libdc1394 and OpenCV, in order to achieve good tracking performance. The Touché environment consists of two parts: A standalone tracking application written in Cocoa, that comes with lots of configuration options as well as calibration and test tools, and a Cocoa framework that can be embedded into custom applications in order to receive tracking data from the tracking application.

Covered by the LGPLv3, an SVN repository with the tracker application and framework as well as some demo apps is publicly accessible at Google Code. Requirements Configuration Features Documentation Release Notes Tips About. Picnik: Fotobearbeitung ganz einfach online in Ihrem Browser. Webentwicklung: Die Antwort auf alle Fragen – 42 Domaintools » t.

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Since then, millions across the world have uploaded videos to the site, which was bought by Google for $1.65? Billion in 2006. About 24 hours of footage is added to YouTube every minute – the equivalent of Hollywood churning out 150,000 blockbuster movies each week, says Patrick Walker, director of partnerships at the video site. YouTube has brought fame to some, infamy to others, and has become a cornerstone of the internet. The site, says Walker, came along at the perfect moment. Walker thinks long and hard before deciding on his favourite YouTube video. 1. 2. SimpleTest - Unit Testing for PHP.

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