Month: October 2013

How-to video: Saving space

In our series of how-to videos, we will today feature a video that shows how you can use the work area efficiently. You’ll find the video embedded below.

I hope that was simple enough? Using the opportunities to zoom (another video, in fact), minimize certain elements of the interface and even go full screen can be quite useful. In addition you should of course use your browser’s capabilities for full screen or presentation mode. And of course, beg your boss for that nice new high-res monitor – tell him we said you needed it!

If you have questions above the feature shown above or suggestions about new videos topics we should cover, be sure to let us know.

Employee of the week: Tudor

TudorHow long do you have to work a place until you stop being “the new guy”? Right now there is no doubt Tudor has to live with this label. Luckily for him, we have no big tradition for having the new guy paying for the Christmas party – but thinking of it, never too late to start a tradition, right?

Here are the well chosen word from Tudor on the topic of, well, Tudor:

Title: Software Developer

Specialities: Software Engineering, Architecture, Design and Testing/QA. Computer Security, Concurrent Programming, Cloud Computing, UML, Java, C, PHP, MySQL.

Background: Currently finishing Master’s Degree in Software Engineering. Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara.

Fun fact: My favorite quote is: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” –Albert Einstein

How-to video: Peekaboo! (Hide and show…)

In our series of how-to videos, we promised to be back this week with a somewhat more advanced feature. Guess what? We are!

Today, we will feature a video that shows how you can show and hide sets of objects when the user taps certain area (or with timed events, more on that later). You can find the video embedded below.

Note that this feature goes well beyond what we explained before about hiding and showing the layers, or object categories as we like to call them since they are used beyond basic layers, in the authoring tool.

If you feel like a pro, try to use the tip at the end to switch sets of objects (some that may even contain navigation) on and off across the project. This is what was used for the multiple sets of sounds, some with karaoke mode, in the Leseland title released on both Android, iOS and Windows Store this summer by our customer Samlaget.

If you have questions above the feature shown above or suggestions about new videos topics we should cover, be sure to let us know.

TapBookAuthor at the Frankfurt Book Fair!

TapBookAuthor is present at the huge Frankfurt Book Fair. This is the place to be if what you are doing is even remotely related to books.

I’ve been roaming around the vast premises, meeting and getting to know a lot of interesting people. From small one-person shops, to big publishing groups. I’m impressed with the depth and beauty of the children’s books I’ve seen, many of which are small outright pieces of art!

The feedback I get on the TapBookAuthor.com tool is very positive, so I’m sure we will be working on digitizing and enriching some of these beautiful books very soon. We’re looking forward to establishing and building strong relationships with the very interesting people I’ve met during these days.

There are still a couple of days left of the Fair, so let me know if you are interested in a quick chat.

How-to video: Keep your style consistent

In our series of how-to videos, we will today feature a video that shows how you can set styles that will be used throughout your project. You find the video embedded below.

That was simple enough, wasn’t it? By next week we’ll be back with another video and that one will probably be touching on a more advanced topic. Please check back!

If you have questions above the feature shown above or suggestions about new videos topics we should cover, be sure to let us know.

Four weeks in Palo Alto

The next four weeks our CEO will be in Palo Alto, California – right in the heart of Silicon Valley. The purpose is to see if we should have a more permanent presence here, but not least to talk to potential customers.

So if you are based on the US West Coast and would like to have a demo of TapBookAuthor.com, let Sondre know and he will come to your location to show you how the tool can help create awesome apps without custom programming.

From day to day, we’ll be based out of 470 Ramona St and we stay close to downtown Mountain View.

Finally a proper license plate, from The Golden State

How-to video: Setting an image as the background

In our series of how-to videos, we will today show how you can set an image, or some other object, as the background of the scene. You can have a look below to see how this works, as always you can switch to full screen by using the bottom right icon on the video.

By the way, we store all our videos on YouTube and you can see the full list of videos in the TapBookAuthor YouTube channel and for the HOWTO videos we also have a page that lists them all in progress of being completed.

If you have questions above the feature above or suggestions about new videos topics we should cover, be sure to let us know.