BookZ has been tested to work with iPhone OS 2.2.
I haven’t noticed any significant difference, but some changes are obvious:
The new iTunes.app allows downloading Podcast episode IN THE BACKGROUND!
When deleting an app, user will be asked to rate that app.
Street view is cool, but not as cool as in Android : |
Question: what if I accidentally uninstalled BookZ, lost my library and the iTunes backup has already been overwritten (so that restoring is not an option)?
In Mac OS X 10.5.5, iPhone/iPod Touch is backed up by iTunes and iTunes is in turn backed up by time machine. Therefore, it is possible to restore an iPhone/iPod Touch to any backup in the past with the help of Time Machine.
The backup files for iPod is located at ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
Please follow this tutorial to restore the iPhone/iPod to an older state from Time Machine
0. Perform a Time Machine backup
1. Check if the iPhone/iPod is backed up by Time Machine. By default, it is automatically backed up in OS X 10.5.5
Go to Finder, navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
Power up Time Machine and see if there are older backups on the right
If you are able to see something like Today at XX:XX, Yesterday at XX:XX, you have your iPod backed up! Otherwise stop here–there’s no backup and restoring is not possible.
2. Sync your current iPhone/iPod. Perform a full backup of the iPhone/iPod.
3. Under the same folder in STEP 1, there are a lot of random folders and one of them is your iPhone/iPod’s backup.
To identify which is which, go into a folder,
Look for Info.plist by typing i-n-f-o and Finder will highlight the file
Open in TextEdit/Quick Look and you’ll see something like this:
If the “Device Name” and “Display Name” is the same as displayed in iTunes, bingo! Otherwise, repeat STEP 3 for a different folder
4. When you find the folder you are looking for, drag the folder to your Desktop just in case. (You may delete it after successfully performing the last step of the tutorial)
5. Restore the iPod to factory settings
6. Quit iTunes
7. Go to Finder
Enter Time Machine
Select an older version of the backup folder
and restore–replace current version!
Tip: Unsure which folder to restore? Use “Quick Look” to identify “info.plist” just like in STEP 3
8. In iTunes, “Restore from Backup” and select the appropriate backup with the same name as your iPhone/iPod
After the process you should have a clean iPhone OS installation with all old settings and apps in tact.
Darren has found a very useful utility for the OS X called Pordible. It supports conversion of .pdb (PalmDoc) to TXT files.
You can find it here.
When you finish downloading, simply drag-n-drop the file onto the Pordible.app and a BookZ friendly TXT file will be produced.
PDB files come in a lot of flavors and this utility handles PalmDoc only–so some .pdb might not be supported.
Thanks to Darren for this super helpful discovery : )
Please follow this tutorial to transfer books from your Mac to BookZ.
Network setup: Your Mac and your iPhone/iPod Touch connects to the same WIFI network
0. Turn on “Web Sharing” in System Preferences->Sharing
1. Find out your computer’s address from System Preferences->Network (In my case 172.19.169.138)
2. Put some books into your “~/Sites” (~ stands for your home directory)
3. In BookZ, use Utilities->Surf and Download, type in the address found in step 1 followed by “~username”.
E.g. my username is “steven”, my ip address is 172.19.169.138. Hence the address typed into BookZ is “172.19.169.138/~steven”.
Tip: you can bookmark this address to avoid typing it again
4. Download books by clicking on the filenames
Some people get “403 Error” instead of the page shown above. If this happens, please refer Apple’s official solution.
If you are unable to get things working, feel free to use support and drop me a message describing any problem you encounter.
1. Open the pdf with Preview or Adobe Reader
2. Edit->Select All
3. Copy!
4. TextEdit->Paste (in Windows, Notepad->Paste)
5. Save as a txt file (if it appears as RTF, use TextEdit Menu->Format->Make Plain Text)
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If you are having trouble producing TXT files with TextEdit that comes with Mac OS X, check out Text Wrangler
Text Wrangler is intuitive and straightforward: paste any text into Text Wrangler, save as a TXT file and you are ready to go!
Thanks to Ian for letting me know about Text Wrangler 
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Just upgraded my iPod Touch to firmware 2.1 (5F137) and BookZ is working flawlessly.
One thing I noticed about 2.1 is that installation of new apps via iTunes is significantly faster.
Backing up your device using iTunes is highly advisable before upgrading to the new 2.1 firmware.
0. Download HFS~HTTP File Server here (green software: free and portable).
1. Run hfs.exe (The usage is very straightforward. You could find more information on HFS website)
2. In the HFS interface, drag and drop text files into the left pane.
3. In BookZ, “Utilities->Surf and Download a Book”. Put the host address into the URL field and you are good to go!
P.S.: If BookZ cannot load the page, please check your firewall settings ; )
Roger has made a grand discovery that HFS~HTTP File Server works wonderfully with BookZ!
What is HFS~HTTP Server?
HFS~HTTP Server is a green (free and portable) file server that runs on Windows.
It is available at http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
Setting up is super easy: just drag & drop a local .txt book into the software and you could download the book with BookZ!
I shall write a detailed step-by-step tutorial when I have access to a Windows box 
The iPhone OS 2.0.1 update works fine on my iPhone/iPod Touch. After undating, BookZ works as expected without losing any information.
Before upgrading, it is highly advisable to BACKUP your iPhone/iPod Touch just in case.
What if…the update fails to work in my case?
You could always “Restore” your iPhone/iPod Touch
and then “Restore from Backup”
If you have any questions, feel free to use the “Support” or “Forum” tab on the top navigation bar and I will try to help as much as possible