If you want to quickly add a document or a web page to your ‘Books’ collection in iTunes, all you need to do is to create an alias of iTunes and drag it to ~/Library/PDF Services. Now, when you’re browsing the web or viewing documents and you decide that you want to read them later on a portable Apple device just hit Print, click the PDF button on the bottom left corner of the window and choose iTunes. iTunes will launch and receive the PDF. Next, sync your device and you’re ready to go.

via Send websites and docs to iBooks – Mac OS X Hints.

How do you build and share this project so others can view it on their computers and iPads?

via PADILICIOUS.

This is so neat. “Services” that let you build/share things on an iPad.

This is all described in the WWDC 2010 presentation “Session 302 – Automating the Creation of iPad Content” which you can get for “free” from http://developer.apple.com/

I used one of the services to create a “photo application” which has some Salvador Dali pictures.

via Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt – Onedirt.com.

OK – 2 dirt tracks in town. Wonder how that will work out.

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate.

Many everything.

via Todays Guardian.

via Findings – Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons – NYTimes.com.

Essentially it frames all places where Flash would be and won’t load it unless you specifically click on it.

The neat thing is that it is for WebKit, so almost all of the WebKit applications I use – OmniWeb, NetNewsWire, and Safari all get the same feature.

Now I know where my CPU is going if I want to see the videos (and not the ads).

I am amazed at how much gunk there is out there on some of the web pages that I visit.

ClickToFlash

Where to get the beta right here for the latest beta

via Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator.

I wish I had known. Always wanted to be a design expert.

via Cliclick – Carsten Blüm: Mac Development.

via Mac & the iPad.

Ask Tog – always a good read.

via The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines.

The epub versions work really well in iBooks as well.

Click on the link for the cartoon.

via The iPads charging challenge explained | Accessories | iPhone Central | Macworld.

via Career Advice: 30 Writing Tips – Inside Higher Ed.

via For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path – NYTimes.com.

Make the River see something new.

via A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books.

ePub Zen Garden

CSS Zen Garden

In a sense, Americans seem to have done with mysticism what we’ve done with every other kind of human experience: We’ve democratized it, diversified it, and taken it mass market. No previous society has offered seekers so many different ways to chase after nirvana, so many different paths to unity with God or Gaia or Whomever. A would-be mystic can attend a Pentecostal healing service one day and a class on Buddhism the next, dabble in Kabbalah in February and experiment with crystals in March, practice yoga every morning and spend weekends at an Eastern Orthodox retreat center. Sufi prayer techniques, Eucharistic adoration, peyote, tantric sex — name your preferred path to spiritual epiphany, and it’s probably on the table.

via Op-Ed Columnist – Mysticism for All – NYTimes.com:

via The man who wants to kill crunches – Health – Macleans.ca.

Interesting points. The comments on the article go both ways.

The over-arching question: are digital books as good or better than physical books at protecting you and your rights as a reader?

via Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers | Electronic Frontier Foundation.