Sunday, December 26, 2021

Creative Book Builder v5.6

New features:

1. Configure font color (enable or not) in book style

2. Show text statistics (# of nouns, verbs, etc.) by paragraph, markdown, page and book

3. Import Blogger: add published date to the content

4. Embed YouTube playlist

5. Storage: quickly delete all generated files for books

6. Support WebP image file

7. Fix bug for keyboard shortcuts (copy, cut, paste)

8. Bug fix

Friday, November 26, 2021

WidgetGrid - Turn Google Spreadsheets into Widgets on the home screen

WidgetGrid is a new way to turn Google Spreadsheets into data-driven widgets on the home screen. You can start from templates to create widgets. You can edit your data in spreadsheets and customize the design of all kinds of widgets in WidgetGrid.

You can download WidgetGrid for FREE via App Store: 

https://apps.apple.com/app/widgetgrid/id1586316173

Here is demo video:

Features

  • Choose from layouts: Grid View, List View, Card View, Chart View
  • Start from templates: Project Tracker, Class Attendance, etc.
  • Start from your own spreadsheets
  • Change style including background color, background image, font style, font size, font color, alignment, and line limit
  • Support all kinds of widgets: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large
  • Tap item in widget to show item detail or any links that defined in item record
  • Change mapping of data from widget components to column within spreadsheet
  • Launch spreadsheet to edit source data
  • Edit title and item records, and then synchronize the update back to spreadsheet
  • Support line chart, bar chart, pie chart and doughnut chart

Monday, August 16, 2021

Creative Book Builder v5.5

New features:

1. Publish book online using Static.app

2. Bug fix

Monday, July 26, 2021

Publish your books online

Creative Book Builder can generate HTML5 books that can be viewed in any browser or Creative Book Reader. There is a new service called Static.app which provides one-click solution for static website. It is super easy to publish your books online using Static.app for FREE. You can just send the link to anyone for viewing in the browser.

How to host your books using Static.app:

1. Open Creative Book Builder to export your book as HTML5 book in zip file format
2. Go to static.app and create an account if you do not have
3. Upload zip file 
4. Change title (also change subdomain if you want)
5. Finally, browse your book

Here is the demo:

If you want to use custom domain, you can consider to join Static.app's yearly plan or monthly plan.

Friday, May 21, 2021

Creative Book Builder v5.4

New features:

1. WYSIWYG book style editor

2. Option to delete custom font files in book (book style -> custom font files)

3. Size Picker: pick recent used size from history

4. Import Blogger: support embedded youtube video & import xml content (backup from blogger)

5. Bug fix

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Creative Book Builder v5.3

New features:

1. Transcribe audio file or audio recording into text (support different languages)

2. Specify language preference for transcription (Speech Recognition)

3. Suggest image's caption and alternative text using Image Labeling with AI

4. Audio Settings: image is allowed for button view (button is placed in the middle of image)

5. Use markdown for footnote's content

6. Export to EPUB or preview book directly in book list (swipe right or long press)

7. Search and import GIF from Tenor

8. Support GIF better

9. New color picker for iOS 14

10. New photo picker for iOS 14

11. Drag book item to open new window for iPad

12. Bug fix




Monday, February 15, 2021

OneEdit Pro v3.5

OneEdit makes batch image processing, filtering, merging & uploading easier. OneEdit executes multiple editing and exporting tasks on multiple photos at ONE time.

New Features

1. Remove background

2. More filters

3. Add photos from history

4. Reorder photos using orientation (portrait first or landscape first)

5. Shuffle photos in photo list

6. Edit Task List: insert after or insert before (swipe right or long press)

7. Export Task List: insert after or insert before (swipe right or long press)

8. Preview export tasks: merge to pdf, merge to montage, generate animated gif

9. More options for montage: 2, 3 or 4 columns, and add grid lines

10. The term "Profile" is changed to "Project"

11. Edit project name

12. Bug fix




Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Creative Book Builder v5.2

New features:

1. Support new iOS 14 widgets: show your favorite book or recent books on home screen

2. Filter books by EPUB generated or not

3. Audio can be hidden

4. Add link to audio in paragraph

5. Default chapter in group can be deleted

6. Default chapter in group will not be generated automatically

7. Default chapter in group will not be default chapter anymore after importing or duplicating book

8. Auto-generated group index page can be disabled (Book Style > Group Index Page)

9. Bug fix