My first iPad eBook App, Micrographia, is now available in Apple’s iTunes App Store.
Use this direct link to download the App to your PC: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/micrographia/id367694834?mt=8.
In addition to containing the complete text of Robert Hooke’s landmark introduction to microscopy, Micrographia also features five plates from the book that can be copied to your device’s Photo Album and subsequently used as wallpaper on your iPad.
Micrographia is a free App.
Pending approval by Apple, my latest App has just been uploaded into the iTunes App approval queue. Micrographia is a repackaged eBook of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon from Project Gutenberg.
This App contains the complete text, along with all accompanying illustrations, as published by Hooke in 1664 (also cited as 1665 by various sources).
A noteworthy extra featured in this App is the ability to copy five of Hooke’s high-resolution illustrations into the user’s Photo Album. Once copied, these illustrations can be sent to friends, used as wallpaper, and transferred to a host computer.
Micrographia will be available as a FREE App exclusively for iPad.
After a long, intense development period, I have just released an App created exclusively for the new Apple iPad. This App, titled No Man: A World Without Being, will be ready for sale in the Apple iTunes App Store on the iPad premiere date, April 3, 2010. Balancing written commentary along with strong, striking visual content, No Man is a self-contained art exhibition delivered in a full-frame, wide-screen cover flow presentation.
In 46 monochrome and full color plates, No Man examines a world that none of us can see–a dimensionally parallel world, a world where time inside a camera is captured in minutes rather than fractions of second. This is not conventional time lapse photography, however. Heavily populated sites (e.g., Washington, DC) are lethargically rendered into eerily quiescent vistas completely devoid of humanity enabling the viewer to cast a critical eye on the artifacts of man.
A future upgrade, one that couldn’t be included in this initial App, will feature the ability to purchase framed and matted prints from any of the plates included in No Man.
No Man costs $2.99 and is available exclusively for the iPad.
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