Jealous Author Mac OS

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Jealous Author Mac OS

Now, OS X can run the vast majority of the apps available for Linux — but, in general, Mac users don’t use the open source apps, because the usabilty a native OS X app is.so much better. Most open source apps are way over-engineered and under-designed, meaning that they are stable and full-featured, but they don’t look and feel good.

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Apple is launching a new Mac OS X 10.8 aka ‘Mountain Lion’ this summer and it promises to import features from Apple’s iOS. Why should mobile have all the fun right? Historically, Apple launched all major Mac OS releases at its annual developer conference. This time, they changed the game showing it off 9 months before it hits the market which means Apple and developers have less time to integrate new features and work out bugs.

Here are 5 intriguing facts about Apple’s New Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion’ you need to know:

1. Developers get to preview Mountain Lion today! Looking for another reason to become an Apple developer? We have just what you need: Mountain Lion is being released as a preview to all developers today. The commercial release will be released sometime this summer through Apple’s Mac App Store.

The fact of the matter is developing a native Mac OS BrightAuthor will significantly increase our development and QA time, not to mention cost. As others have noted you can also use BrightSign Network for basic (single-zone), HTML and template-based (BrightPlates) authoring via web browser.
All versions of OS X since 10.6.7 have been able to detect known Mac malware in downloaded files, and to block insecure web plugins. This feature is transparent to the user, but internally Apple calls it 'XProtect.'
Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support.
Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support.

2. Mountain Lion will include popular iPod and iPad features. As Apple has previously done with Lion, the new Mac OS X 10.8 will come with many of the most popular features from the iPad and iPhone. Their intention is to make Mac computers more useful and approachable to those who got an iOS device (such as an iPod, iPad or iPhone) in the past. Their hoping Macs will become as essential as other iDevices.

3. OS X and iOS are still different. Not at all. Apple is working on creating a neighborhood of sorts where subtle differences require users to have both the OS X and iOS so that everything ties together to feel more unified. They will not be merging the two systems.

4. Apple is sharing 10 features that will launch with the new Mac OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion”. Apple is giving away all its secrets but they are sharing 10 features that will come with the new OS. These include iMessage (check out our previous post, 3 Ways to Reach iMessage Enlightenment, for more tips on iMessages!), Reminders, Notes, Share Sheets, AirPlay Mirroring, GateKeeper and an assortment of localizations to OS X aimed at Chinese users including system-wide ties-ins to search engines and content sharing sites.

5. Siri is missing. Apple hasn’t included Siri in it’s 10 new features that come with the new Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion”. There’s still time to add it in before the summer release, but so far it hasn’t made the cut. Some think desktop computers don’t need Siri at all. What do you think?

Overall, Apple’s New Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion’ is huge news for Apple fans all across the globe. This new release promises to impress with 10+ new features including iMessages, Reminders, Notifications and more. We’re jealous of the developers who get to start beta testing today. If you’re one of them, please let us know your feedback in the comments below.

Dated back to the WWDC 2013, when Apple announced iBooks would be an independent application in the OS X 10.9 Mavericks, all the iBooks lovers are exciting about the coming iBooks for Mac app. Finally the day came, but I heard much noise among the cheers. A lot of people think the iBooks for Mac sucks, because it doesn't allow people to edit the metadata.

People can't edit eBooks metadata in iBooks for Mac

Some people may even don't know what is metadata, to put it simply, metadata is the ID card for an eBook, like the cover, title, author name, publisher name, etc.

For those people who purchase eBooks from iBooks Store only, they might feel there is no need to edit the metadata. But a hard-core eBook fan won't think so, many downloaded eBooks don't have a complete meta information, like lack of cover or improper title spelling.

When the iBooks was only a child-column in iTunes, we can right click on an item then click 'Get Info' to edit a book's metadata just like modifying a song's ID3 tag information.

But with iBooks for Mac in Mavericks, you only get this when right clicking on a book.

Sad story, feels like we are using a lite edition of iBooks, isn't it?

The reason that iBooks enables people to edit the meta date is pretty obvious-- they don't want people to use iBooks to read downloaded books, but only the books purchased from iBooks Store.

Edit metadata with Calibre for Mac

Although editing metadata with iBooks is impossible, it doesn't mean this is the end of the story. With another software, Calibre for Mac, we can edit book's metadata then load the book into iBooks for Mac app.

First we import the book into Calibre.

From the image above we can see that the cover of the book A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is missing, which is a pretty typical case where we need to edit the metadata to add cover.

Right click on the book title, choose 'Edit metadata', then 'Edit metadata individually'.

In this window we can customize almost all the important metadata. In this case I need to add a cover to the book, so I click 'Browse' in 'Change cover' area. If you want to make it simple, just directly click 'Download cover', and Calibre will search the cover from internet and add it for you.

After finding the cover image, click 'OK' to confirm. Then you can see the cover in Calibre now.

But job has not been finished yet, in fact the cover is only added in Calibre's library. To display the book's cover in iBooks for Mac, we need to add the cover image into the book file.

No matter that we are adding cover or modifying the names, converting the book to EPUB again is necessary. Only in this way, we can completely edit the metadata inside the book, not only in Calibre library.