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Some may find this interesting, there's a sample book here. http://simontaylor.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/apple-ibooks/
I've also been experimenting with more interactive content - http://www.phooto.co.uk/books/photography_essentials.ibooks - this is a work in progress, but does show how easy it is to add content. - Takes a while to load into your iPad...

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Just FYI, new blog post "Deploy BranchCache Content and Hosted Cache Servers Using Windows PowerShell" at
http://aka.ms/le85n3
Thanks -
James McIllece

Great to see new BranchCache content out there!
We created a BranchCache info page to try to get all of the relevant info into one place for V1 and 2
http://2pintsoftware.com/microsoftbranchcache
thanks
Phil
Phil Wilcock http://2pintsoftware.com @2pintsoftware

Advanced: Component authoring and sample popup calendar prototype

I've recently completed a new sample popup calendar prototype component to illustrate how to write Creator-friendly JavaServer Faces components. For more info see http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javatools/CustomComponentLibraries and screenshots are on my blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/edwingo?entry=component_authoring_for_creator
I'd like to know if this is useful to you.
-Edwin
Creator Team
http://blogs.sun.com/edwingo/

It is a really good introduction.Thanks. I appreciate the feedback! It's good to know that my efforts aren't being sent out into the ether. :-)
>
I wish that I could use this instead of the
ui:calendar because that has
some bugs and the turn around time on getting that
fixed is rather long.Yes, the turnaround time is long. However, if the sample popup calendar works better for you then feel free to use it as is. You can download the binary complib file from http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/edwingo/sample-simple-2.2.1.complib.
I intented to provide an alternative to the built-in calendar since I know users have had trouble with the built-in one. I know there may be some bugs left like the popup being rendered under menus in IE which would be a simple javascript fix. I'd like this to be the basis for an open sourced calendar that developers could contribute to. I'm not sure how to execute on this plan though.
>
I wish that you would call it something other than
sample, EdwinsCalendar
work better for me.
I wish that your tutorial would be extended into an
example where you
take a competing component set, like a MyFaces or an
ADF component,
and describe what needs to be added in order for
anyone to import and use
it in Creator.I originally started with the myfaces calendar component. It's a more complex component and to get it to work in Creator would require changes to the component itself so it would require building from myfaces source. I think it would be great to have the new ADF components in myfaces to work in Creator, but someone needs to do the work. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do the work since I'm slated to work on other tasks, but I tried to provide enough information for other component developers do the work. I'm also interested in helping in any way I can.
-Edwin
Creator team
http://blogs.sun.com/edwingo/

How are you Using iBooks Author and Samples

I'm curious to see how everyone is using iBooks author to create books. Are most people copy/pasting content into their book or are they directly writing the content in the book? How many have just imported the information from another word processing program? Who is using the program for creating books for children, entertainment or work-related functions?
And that being said, I'm also interseted to see samples of how the books of others look on the iPad, including if possible the children's books, entertainment books or the work-related books. (Including how they incorporated widgets, theme in the pages, fonts, etc)
Me personally, I have been developing two books using iBooks author for work related fuctions. The first book is a training manual for a software program; the second book is a guide to all the reports that can be created in the software program. Both books have been well received by clients.

I generally find that, for creating the text, I'm better off with the word processor of my choice. That way, I get to focus on content and structure and I don't get distracted by layout and formatting issues. While working in the word processor, I use only the simplest of styles. (Logical styles rather than visual ones, the equivalen of HTML <H1>, <H2>, etc.
Once I'm happy with the text and I've done the copy editing, I import into the page layout program and do the layout.
Cheers,
Michi.

Can a blog post have two or more authors?

Hi,
is there any possibility to publish a blog / document with two or more authors assigned?
Thanks,
Christin

We have 2 recent similar discussions.
Have a look into these discussions.
You will get all information about the blog posts for two authors
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Blog Post Date Bug

Hi,
I use windows live writer to publish to my blog on BC and other blog platforms.
When I publish from live writer with today at the post date, the post is not visible on the blog site at all.
I enter the admin of BC, change the blog post date to yesterday and the post becomes visible.
Thought this was an issue with live writer so I changed the published date back to today. Post disappeared again.
Changed it back to the day before and it appeared.
This is very buggy. In fact I am finding the blog set up in general full of issues, like the RSS feed does not work.
What can be done about this? I would like to press publish and have it actually published not have to log in and edit each post each time....
Paul

My apologies Paul I was referencing the RSS troubles.
In regards to the post date with blogs using Live Writer I'm not aware of any related bugs referencing this as a known issue.
If still an on-going issue I recommend submitting a case to us with the details and steps showcasing what you are experiencing so we can replicate and fix this ASAP.
I would suggest using Jing to capture in a short video of what you are experiencing attached along your case to us.
Admin panel -> help&support (log a ticket)
Jing -> http://www.jingproject.com/
Kind regards,
-Sidney

Getting my blog posts from IWeb interfaced with Facebook

How do I get my blog posts, created on IWeb, and through Networked Blogs to sync with my Facebook page? I cant seem to get the individual posts available to post in my Facebook status bar. No posts from blog are visible...any ideas?

i have the same problem. and i also want to add a share button on every post so people can share it through their status on facebook. do you know how to do it? anyone?

Some blog posts link to the main url instread of the blog page

So the title is a little confusing, but I use iweb for a church website. I use the blogs as a way to post videos of the weekly sermons. For some reason my blog posts from 10/24 and 10/31 and 11/7 tries to load the main site, but it does not exist in that folder so nothing loads.
Main site: http://www.crnaz.net/WeeklySermons/WeeklySermons.html
Correct Page should look something like this: http://www.crnaz.net/WeeklySermons/Entries/2010/10/24_The_Fruit_of_the_Spirit-_Kindness_Goodness_andGentleness.html
This is what it tries to load.
http://www.crnaz.net/WeeklySermons/Entries/2010/10/Castle_Rock_Church_of_theNazarene.html
CastleRock_Church_of_theNazarene.html is the home page for the site.
Does any one know how to fix this or what is causing the problem in the first place?
Thanks

Right click the Back button and select the page you want to go back to.

Hello I wrote a technical french book on " iBooks Author" and I would like to Know witch catégorie I should choose?

hello I wrote a technical french book on " iBooks Author" and I would like to Know witch catégorie I should choose?

Sorry, I cannot remember all teh many options of category and sub categories offered during the delivery process.
A very simple solution for you is to use Google Translate to convert the category titles to French
Another option is to use the iBooks store - search for books made with iBooks Author open a few preview / sample books to look at the information page and check which categories are used the most... and use the same!

Why has my iBook app frozen? I was perusing list of authors and got frozen on Jane Austin. I can't return to home page. Please help!

Why has my iBook app frozen? I was perusing a list of authors and got stuck on Jane Austin. I can't get back to the home page and my book shelf. Pleas help!

You don't have much choice, do you? You're either going to have to restore the software or take it to the Genius Bar to see about getting that button fixed.

Completely frustrated by iBooks Author and iBooks

I have been writing in iBooks Author for a while to produce a book. I loved what was shown by Apple as possibilities. My book contains a lot of diagrams, the source material are vector images (SVG or PDF). These images are sometimes large and are unreadable, unless the user can zoom in and pan/scroll around.
Given that iOS is PDF-based and that HTML5 has SVG I assumed (mistakenly) that iBooks and iBooks Author would support resolution-independence vector images. Indeed, it will accept PDF often, but on creation of the .ibook, it produces low resolution bitmaps. There is no decent way to create image viewing that enables a user to look at a diagram that cannot be read on page size of an iPad2. Interactive Image will allow larger images (up to 4096pixels wide in landscape mode), but to let the user zoom you need fake viewpoints that point somewhere and in all, creating something where the user can pan/scroll/zoom is ugly and a pain.
I have been looking at HTML5 widgets to see if one can get around this. But here too, iBooks Author seems not to allow SVG in those (just displays empty, so does iBooks Author kills the SVG on export from .iba to .ibooks?). SO, I hoped the standards of iOS (PDF and HTML5) woul dsolve any problem, but iBooks Author seems to make sure it does not work.
I am so frustrated that I am close to giving up. iBooks Author and Ibooks need (for me):
- handling vector-images (SVG and PDF) (come on, Apple, how can you be so slow with supporting resolution independence, especially given Retina iPads?)
- the ability to let the user pan/scroll over large images that can be zoomed in/out
And I am not talking about stupid things like not being able to replace an image inside a picture element with a new image without losing the picture element and having to manually redo all the links to it.
It has been more than a half year since Apple released iBooks Author. Unless I find a way to let the reader investigate larger diagrams, preferably interactive ones, e.g. created as a HTML5 widget with SVG objects in it, or unless Apple delivers a product with less problems bugs and such, my project needs to move away from iBooks.

Thanks, but I am not going to try anything else. I have lost any trust in iBooks Author that I can get this right.
First, it means buying Keynote just for this experiment and besides that means that my images all end up in a widget (I have many inlines now) which will also not be exported properly in PDF.
I am unhappy enough that I have to buy Pages to save my project (if I had known this in advance, I would probably have written the book in TeX and try to find a decent paper publisher) and lose all the nice interaction ideas I had.
If iBooks and iBooks Author still exist a year after I have finished my old fashioned book, maybe. So far, this looks like another beta-never-to-be-kept-alive-in-a-decent-way product attempt at Apple. Stuff gone like iWeb or iDVD (colleague bought his Mac, used iMove to create a Movie and wanted to create a DVD. Turns out he needs to shell out $99 for Roxio to do that. Not a happy camper).

I have created an ibook in ibook author and it appears in ibook on my Mac. How do I get it on my iPad? It is too big to email.

I have created an ibook in ibook author and it appears in ibook on my Mac. How do I get it on my iPad. It is too big to email.

You can install MAMPon you mac (free web server, no configuration needed).
Put ePub file in Applications/MAMP/htdocs and you can download locally (quicker than Dropbox, Mega, etc...)
On your iPad's nevigator type:
http://mac_local-lan_IP:8888/NameOfYourBook.epub
You can see local IP on: System Preferences/Lan or System Preferences/Sharing
iPad and Mac must be in the same lan/wifi network.
Best regards.

Does anyone know how to add Audio to iBooks Author and Loop it continuously

I need to Loop a 2 second piece of audio in iBooks Author. When I Preview it on my iPad it doesn't Loop correctly. Can anyone please help me with this strange problem.
Thanks in advance. David

Hi K T,
Still having lots issues with Looping. Was wondering if you were able to import any short drum loop for example from Garage Band or Logic or similar into iBooks Author and select the Loop option. Do you get a gap or buffering effect before the audio repeats? I've tried so many different audio types now and think it must be a bug with iBooks. The gap only occurs when opened or played in iBooks. I just want to confirm that it's not just my system that has the problem. I have tried it on iPad 2 and iPad with Retina, but not iPad Air.
Any suggestions?
Thanks David

HT5071 Can I publish my work produced with iBooks Author and make it available (free of charge) for my students only?

Can I publish my work produced with iBooks Author and make it available (free of charge) for my students only?

Yes. Put it on your own server, and/or send it out via email.

HT5071 I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

Sorry I didn't get the tip link right: Change page number style

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