Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

iPad and ebooks, or I should say iBooks ?

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I will publish my findings about publishing books on the iPad. Follow the blog for more info on tools and tricks.

First trick: if you try to add a book to the iPad, don’t drag the book to the iPad in iTunes. Drag the book to the Library. If is your first book you will not see a Books category but, the category will be added. Then syncronize the iTunes with the iPad.

Publishing tip: The books with special diacritics (special romanian characters) are looking ok for only 3 of the fonts. Also they are taking a long time to update after a font change.

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iPad – how is the positioning working

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Today I started the iPad maps application.  Very strange, the iPad picked my location with an excellent precision.
So the positioning/location/find me feature works.

So I started to investigate how is that possible.
At first Paola suggested based on some article that she found online that is based on geo-IP or is doing a triangulation of some kind.
Triangulation can be done on 3 different ways (at least using main stream technology). GPS, GSM or WiFi.
The iPad has no GPS or GSM yet. Will be available on the next release, soon I hope.
So the only options remaining are geo IP and WiFi triangulation.

Walked out, and got disconnected from the WIFI. And the maps locate me still works. Also I bet that the IP of the company is not actually mapped as precise.

SO, the only remaining option is WiFi triangulation. I wonder if Google, with the street view, had anything to do with mapping the WiFi coverage.

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