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ePUB Builder Freeware,DOC PDF to ePUB,Create from HTML/TXT.. Posted by Ada Wang on 4/7/2013 11:04:17 PM. EPUB ebooks is supported by most of Ebook Reader devices. want to share or sell your books on eBooks sites? Here we introduce you some free softwares to creat ePub files! ePub Builder Freeware List: # 1: Sigil # 2: eCub # 3: Calibre # 4: iBooks Author If you want to publish & promote your eBooks, this list contains 20 site to publish & promote your eBooks. Part 1: Create ePUB files by Sigil. Sigil is the best epub editior and ePUB creator, developed by Strahinja Markovic, it's an open source freeware helps you create ePUB files with easy, Edit ePUB like HTML Editor, anybody can use it build a Rich-TEXT ePUB. Download Sigil from Epubor.com or Google Code (9.96Mb). Open the Sigil ePUB Creator, then you create a ePUB object, the content files are list in left side, you can edit epub on right side, it's a rich-text editor, you can easy add/copy text or insert images. Save the object, your epub created! How to edit EPUB files with Sigil What a perfect eBook!

Simple-Kanban | The one file kanban board application Pretty CSS3 buttons I’ve come across quite a few sites that explain how to create flexible CSS3 buttons but i’ve never really spent the time to implement one until i found a great little write up courtesy of the guys over at the Zurb blog who have a fantastic post on creating CSS3 buttons. So i’ve taken their example and tweaked it to fit my needs. It’s worth noting that if your using Internet explorer you’re not going to see all these effects as IE still doesn’t support CSS3. Compatible CSS3 browsers are, Safari, Chrome and FireFox 3+. The Objective We want to create a set of styles that are both cross browser compliant and degrade gracefully for non CSS3 compliant browsers. The button style This is the default class that is applied to each button on our page. Another feature with CSS3 is RGBA, This is the same as RGB but with an alpha layer allowing you to set the opacity of a colour. Button Size Button Colour The final step is to specify a CSS class for whatever colour we want our button(s) to be.

How To Make An ePub File For The iPad, Nook, Kobo & More As editor of the MakeUseOf Manuals project, I’ve been thinking about this a great deal lately, searching the web for the best tools to create ePubs with. I’ve not learned everything yet, but I’ve got a basic outline in place. If you’re looking to create ePub files you’ve come to the right place. What ePubs Are The ePub format is an open standard used in many different devices to display books, newspapers and magazines. Devices that use ePub files include: The iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, via iBooks.Android devices, via FBreaderThe NookSony ReadersThe Kobo ReaderAny Windows, Mac or Linux machines, via a number of programs.Many more devices If you want your book to work on as many devices as possible, it’s critical that you learn how to create ePub files. Exporting from InDesign, Pages & Open Office Odds are you have software on your computer right now that can create ePub files; you just don’t know it. Pages is great, but it’s Mac only and costs money. Creating From Scratch Or Editing

The Hacker's Dictionary Welcome to The Hacker's Dictionary, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. Introduction: The purpose and scope of this File A Few Terms: Of Slang, Jargon and Techspeak Revision History: How the File came to be With frames or without frames: The Hacker's Dictionary Appendix A: Hacker Folklore Appendix B: A Portrait of J. Random Hacker Appendix C: Helping Hacker Culture Grow Bibliography: For your further enjoyment Jargon Construction: How hackers invent jargon Hacker Writing Style: How they write Email Quotes: And the Inclusion Problem Hacker Speech Style: How hackers talk International Style: Some notes on usage outside the U.S. Lamer-speak: Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers Pronunciation Guide: How to read the pronunciation keys Other Lexicon Conventions: How to read lexicon entries Format for New Entries: How to submit new entries for the File The Hacker's Dictionary is a common heritage of the hacker culture.

Getting Started Image enthusiasts should use one of the many software products that support WebP. Such products include Pixelmator, ImageMagick, GIMP, Leptonica and XnConvert. If you use Adobe Photoshop for image editing, you can also install the WebP plugin. We provide in the libwebp codec distribution a reference implementation for the encoder and decoder applications, cwebp and dwebp respectively, to showcase the available functionalities of WebP. The libwebp codec includes an extensive encoder and decoder API. Using cwebp to Convert Images to the WebP Format Use cwebp on the command line to convert PNG or JPEG image files to WebP format. cwebp -q 80 image.png -o image.webp Consult the cwebp documentation for a description of the encoder, its standard and advanced options. Using dwebp to Convert Images from the WebP Format Use dwebp on the command line to convert WebP image files to the PNG or PPM format. dwebp image.webp -o image.png Viewing your Images Natively API for the WebP Codec

Two Free Multiplatform Tools To Create iBooks She’s barely seven and still in her first year of elementary school, but her school bag – which she has to carry on her back everyday – is bigger and heavier than my working backpack. That’s why I always try to help my dearest daughter carry her bag whenever I can. Burden From Bulks Of Books I think everybody knows what’s inside: books, tons of them. The real equation should be: more subjects means more burden to students, both physically and mentally. Changing the school curriculum is not an easy job and require years of persistence. Imagine students (and teachers) with no physical books. The Possible Chosen Device & Format The thing is, reading books in electronic format is not as comfortable as reading the printed pages. There are already gadgets built to replace printed books. While this “oversized iPod Touch” is not up to par to common notebooks (because it’s not intended to be a notebook replacement), it is a very capable e-book reader. Creating Your Own iBooks

Sidr - A jQuery plugin for creating side menus You will be able to create multiple sidrs on both sides of your web to make responsives menus (or not, it works perfectly on desktop too). It uses CSS3 transitions (and fallbacks to $.animate with older browsers) and it supports multiple source types. Get started Like any other plugin, you must include it after the jQuery script. For a better performance load them at the bottom of your page or in an asynchronous way. You have to include a Sidr Theme stylesheet too, choose between the dark or the light one, or if you prefer create one by your own. Using bower or NPM Instead of downloading the plugin, you can install it with bower or with npm: bower install sidr --save From a CDN If you want to load the scripts from a CDN to save bandwith or improve the performance you can use jsDelivr. Demos & Usage Here are described differents ways of usage for this plugin, you can read and adapt them to your website’s requeriments. The Simplest Usage Create a div called sidr and place your menu there. Cookbook

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