ORB Reader 1.3
Device: Mac OS
Category: Utilities
Price: $3.99, Version: 1.2 -> 1.3 (iTunes)
Description:This is the first and the only ORB Reader on Mac so far.
Just double click the .orb ebook files and view the content.
Written natively and extremely fast without Flash plugin installation.
Most .orb ebooks are not built for big screen, so it's low resolution by default.
In order to read on big screen, scaled 4x for better readability.
Don't waste your valuable time waiting for the conversion.
Reading books should be fun and instantly easy.
*Caution:
!! Text search and selection are NOT supported !!
!! This App is not sponsored or related to any company. Just myself. !!
!! There is NO price down for this app. !!
I don't want to waste my life for business except making it better.
Further features depends on your comments or emails.
If you like to know about the newest development progress,
please check my blog (http://rintarou.dyndns.org).
I used to update it with screen shots or videos.
The Beginning
About one month ago, a Dr. mailed me that he had some eBooks in .orb format.
He wished to convert them to PDF to read.
So I did some research and find out there is no any .orb reader on Mac yet.
People get troubled to read this new format.
After finished my previous project, I took several weeks to develop this.
Hope you can read all your eBooks any time you want on Mac.
Payment would be used to keep this App on the store and further improvement.
If there are many people require this, I'll consider to develop one for iOS.
Although I developed several iOS apps for the company,
I don't have any iOS developer program on my own now.
Need money to apply the iOS developer program.
It's very welcome to tell me anything you want or hate.
(You can check the Help menu to mail me anytime.)
Sorry that I am not a eBook fan, I loved real books more.
This is why I keep the original color which would be different from what you see in Flash Player.
What's New
1. PDF like reading experience.
2. Scale to 8x by slider or fit to width automatically.
3. 2 pages mode supported.
4. Open the last page you read.
5. Glyph cache improved the rendering performance.
6. Filtered the heavy drawings that may drop down the system performance.
7. Memory leaks on closing bug fixed.
ORB Reader