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When was the last time you lived without your computer?  Via DesignTaxi 

Apple announced a pair of education initiatives Thursday that the company hopes will take its iPad to the head of the class. iBooks 2 which arrived on the iOS App Store Thursday, adds support for fullscreen textbooks with interactive animation, charts, photos, and videos.  To encourage others to bring electronic textbooks to the iBookstore, Apple also introduced iBooks Author on Thursday. The free Mac app—available from Apple’s Mac App Store—is a WYSIWYG editor for creating digital textbooks with interactive elements.

Great episode on Photoshop User TV. Pete starts off with a tutorial on creating scalable, seamless patterns using the offset filter. RC talks about the process version warnings in Camera Raw. Special guest Michael Fineman shares some post-processing tips to use on photographs of metallic objects.

Most standard photos don’t fit Facebook Timeline’s cover photo slot, but a new app that launched on Tuesday creates images sized specifically for that purpose.

Dropico’s free Facebook Cover Designer provides a landscape viewfinder for composing shots with Facebookin mind. Users can also pull photos from their camera roll, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket or Instagram to edit within the app.

Once the desired photo is loaded, they can crop, rotate, scale and add filters before uploading it directly to Facebook. Link via Mashable

If you’re looking for a job, you’re probably using job boards and social networking sites. Having an online presence is an effective way to find a new post, but with the overwhelming amount of sites available, and the millions of potential candidates squeezed in next to you, how can you leverage these sites to secure your next position? As recruiters, we have a unique perspective on the hiring process. We know what employers are looking for, where they look and why they choose certain people. Here are some insider tips for making these sites work for you. Link via Mashable