Author Archives: Keni Arts

How to Become an iOS Beta Tester: Part I

iOS apps for the iPad, iPod and other iDevices is not unlike any manufactured product. They need the services of the beta tester throughout the development cycle before they reach the public. One could not imagine an automaker selling a car without first thoroughly testing the brakes. It’s equally important for an iOS developer to […]

iPad: A Publishing Platform for E-Books & Interactive Book Creators

The iPad is fast becoming a publishing platform. It will bring with it a type of gold rush for independent content creators of e-books and interactive books. That’s right, books will be created on the iPad. That will be especially true of fixed-layout coffee table-type books and picture-laden books. We’ll look deeper into that, but […]

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Announces His Retirement, Tim Cook Takes Helm

Steve Jobs, the celebrated CEO of not just Apple, but of corporations worldwide, has retired. Tim Cook, chief operating officer will now helm the company. The company Jobs founded, along with tech whiz Steve Wozniak, earned a reputation in the public eye as the premier technology innovator of the 21st. century. Most notable among those […]

Build Your Own iPad Book App

What would it take to build your own iPad book app today? Upon hearing the rumors and eventually reading some facts from reliable sources about the coming release of the original iPad 1 in 2011, I set out to design an app and have it ready for the launch of the tablet. Designing the app […]

Welcome to The Booklands

I love books: paper, electronic, interactive & otherwise… I love ’em all. Since electronic and interactive books are the hot topic of the day (and rightfully so), I’ll be writing a lot about them, but not to the neglect of the wonderful works of words and art bound in leather and pulp.