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TidBITS Entertainment: Introducing Bookle, an EPUB Reader for Mac OS X»

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Enter Bookle — a straightforward, elegant EPUB reader for Mac OS X that maintains your library of EPUBs, available now from the Mac App Store for $9.99. Bookle 1.0 is intentionally simple, since Peter and I wanted to get something out quickly and then react to requests from users, but it has all the core features needed to read DRM-free EPUBs.

As an author of books delivered in a DRM free ePub format, this looks nifty. I also like that they have released just enough to allow for customers to decide what features get added in the future.

Bookle costs only $9.99, and it’s available from the Mac App Store.

I’m glad to see an ePub reader with a great UI hit the Mac market. I thought Apple’s education announcement last month would include an iBooks for desktops, but sadly it did not.

iOS Development Resources for Beginners

In preparing for my beginning iOS development workshop last month and the upcoming Web Design for Mobile devices course (fall 2011), I’ve been accumulating links to various resources that I think will be helpful for new mobile developers. Currently the list of resources is more geared towards native app development, but I will be adding mobile web resources to the list as I continue to develop the course. if you know of a resource I should add, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Graphic Resources

Tutorials

  • Cocoa Dev Central
  • iCode Blog
  • Design Then Code – a site that explores both sides of the development process; design and development. Visitors can purchase instructions along with the Photoshop files and Xcode projects.

Books/Publications

Videos

Code

  • SVShareViewController – a simple way to add Twitter and Facebook integration to an existing application.
  • Taplynx – if you’re looking to build a content/RSS-based application, I highly recommend Taplynx ($599).
  • SensibleTableView – An awesome framework for creating table-based applications. It costs $99 but saves countless hours of work and can be used on multiple projects.
  • CocoaControls – custom UI components for your iOS projects
  • ASIWebPageRequest – A class that makes it easy to download complete web pages
  • Open.iPhoneDev.com – a listing of open source iOS code and projects
  • MWaterfall – an Objective-C RSS/Atom feed parser for iOS
  • Sharekit – an easy way to add social sharing to your iOS app
  • Baker Framework - a ridiculously easy way to create e-book apps from your HTML files

Other

  • Ingredients – a documentation browser that is easier to use and more elegant than what is built in to Xcode