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Static HTML Websites With Ruby – nanoc

nanoc is a static website generator for Ruby.

It runs locally, and is used to convert marked-up files to HTML.

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Currently, nanoc supports Markdown, Textile, Haml, and other markup formats.

What’s awesome about nanoc is that you can execute helper methods and write Ruby code, and, in the end, create safe, previewable, and versionable static websites.

nanoc also has an exemplary, easy-to-use documentation.

A Simple Online Tool For DropBox-based Blogging – Scriptogr.am

As DropBox seems to be the very next multi-billion project with extensive coverage in magazines like Forbes, it was only a matter of time before DropBox-based services appeared.

Scriptogr.am is an online blogging tool that stores static blog posts in your DropBox.

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Post text is stored in Markdown text files, and comes with a very responsive default design.

The blogging service is straightforward and lean, but it does offer features like custom domains, custom HTML/CSS, as well as creating your own, awesome themes you can share with others.

Overall, Scriptogr.am is, I think, the very beginning of pro-DropBox online apps; a myriad of others should follow in the next few months, following the quite recent opening of the DropBox API.

Apple CEO Says They Didn’t Bet High Enough On iPhone 4S Demand In China

The iPhone 4S is a phenomenal smartphone, regardless of the fact that it is just a minor upgrade over its predecessor the iPhone 4. Naturally demand for this smartphone is very high and people just can’t wait to get their hands on it. China is the world’s most populated country and Apple has considerable share in smartphone market. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the company did not bet high enough on iPhone 4S demand in China.

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Earlier this month the iPhone 4S was officially launched in China. Apple was going to sell its latest smartphone in its retail stores across China. Unfortunately a riot broke out at the Sanlitun Apple Store in Beijing. The situation got so out of hand that the Beijing SWAT team had to respond and advise Apple to close the store. Since then Apple has halted all in-store sales of iPhone 4S in China and currently only sells it online.

Tim Cook said during the earnings call yesterday that Apple underestimated the staggering demand for iPhone 4S in China and didn’t bet high enough. In 9 months last year Apple sold nearly 5.6 million iPhones in China, making the Cupertino outfit the number 4 smartphone vendor in the People’s Republic of China.

Tim Cook also said: “China Unicom continues to be a very key partner,”. “I’ve got nothing to announce today on an expansion there, but as I’ve consistently said, China is an extremely important market for us and we continue to look at how to grow it further.”

The CEO of Apple did not reveal when the company plans on starting selling iPhone 4S in stores again throughout China. Its basically a matter of controlling the crowd which gets rowdy after waiting in line outside the Apple Store for many, many hours.

Inside Apple By Adam Lashinsky Is Now Available For Download

Inside Apple is a new book that is going to reveal how the world’s most admired and secretive company works. Written by Adam Lashinsky, a man who did considerable research before penning down this book, Inside Apple is no doubt going to be a good read. This book is now available for download from the iBooks Store.

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Adam Lashinsky is a senior editor-at-large for FORTUNE and is based in San Francisco as he mostly covers Wall Street and the Silicon Valley. Adam Lashinsky has always had a relationship with the Silicon Valley as prior to joining FORTUNE, he covered Silicon Valley for TheStreet.com and The San Jose Mercury News.

We as consumers of Apple products are always awe-inspired whenever the Cupertino outfit releases a new device. There’s something magical about it. From the announcements to the very ritualistic packaging of the device itself. It seems as if Apple weaves magic. How does it do that? Adam Lashinsky’s Inside Apple book is going to reveal how the world’s most admired company works from the inside out.

The book itself is described as:

INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products. If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside.

It hasn’t bee long since Steve Jobs’ official biography by Walter Isacsson came out. While it was a very descriptive book and told many stories about life of the genius Steve Jobs was, we never really got to know how Apple functions as a team, and how that team is able to deliver one amazing product after the another. Inside Apple claims to reveal all of that.

You can purchase Adam Lashinsky’s Inside Apple book from the iBooks Store on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch for $12.99.

New 2012 iPhone 5 Ready For Production And Launching In Summer

Apple is bound to release a new iPhone sooner or later. At this point in time it is rumoured that the next iPhone is going to be called iPhone 5. The new 2012 iPhone 5 is widely anticipated. A source reveals that Apple’s next iPhone is ready for production at Foxconn factories in China, and that the company plans on releasing it this summer.

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Last year before the iPhone 4S had materialized, all eyes were on Apple to release iPhone 5 which was going to be the next big thing. Apple shocked everyone by announcing iPhone 4S which happens to be a slight upgrade over the pre-existing iPhone 4. With that out of the way it is obvious that the company will release a brand new iPhone this year or it risks losing its massive share in the global smartphone industry.

We have already heard a lot of rumours regarding iPhone 5 and we can’t be really sure about any one of them until and unless Apple releases some official detail. Given the fact that Apple is a very secretive company, we can’t expect them to let the people know what they’re going to release.

This source reveals that several iPhone 5 samples are making the rounds in Foxconn factories. It is not yet known which particular sample is going to be the new 2012 iPhone 5. All of these sample do have some similarities. They all have a screen which is bigger than 4 inches. None of the samples have design or form factor that is similar to iPhone 4S or iPhone 4 is any way. Despite previous rumours the samples are not teardrop shaped, which means that the iPhone 5 is not going to have a Macbook Air like shape. The variations in these samples are very minute and there is no substantial difference in the dimensions of all these samples.

A summer 2012 launch is predicted as one of these samples is about to go in mass production very soon. It is possible that Apple may announce their new 2012 iPhone 5 at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Arc Your Text With CSS3 And jQuery – Arctext.js

Tympanus.net have published Arctext.js — an interesting plugin that curves text along an imaginary arc.

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Arctext.js uses JavaScript to generate arcs and CSS3, along with the FitText library, to place and format the text.

This is most certainly an excellent library, and if you’re up for even more typographic experiments with this library, do have a look at the code, it’s well documented and pretty.