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Not all the phone calls I get are as enjoyable as listening to new ideas. As you know, we get tons of calls from places like India to outsource of web development to them - we don't do it...
Being a software developer yields tons of rewarding side effects...
RustyBrick is in the business of building out ideas into web applications, software, design and apps. That is what we do throughout the whole process, from the initial sales process to the process of building out the idea into a reality...
I just got this email from Apple. This changes everything! Originally, Apple did not allow you to have in-app purchases for free iPhone apps, in fear that developers would release apps with limited features to just force people to pay to release features...
As some of you know, we localized Shabbat Shalom in Hebrew about a month ago. It worked out well, so with the anticipation of the iPhone being officially supported in Israel, sometime in the near future, we decided to make our iPhone Siddur natively support Hebrew.
The process is now done and version...
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I was happy to see my first shareware app, MyZip, show up on a serialz list only weeks after release. It showed that my app was worth stealing. What I was not prepared for what the immediate impact it had on business. Literally the money stopped coming in...
There is something to be said about my parent's ingenuity, they did a good job naming me. There are only a couple of other people online that share my first name. I have been "blogging" since before the term existed and nowadays my first name is also a domain name...
OK so my boss is of the belief that blog posts generate web traffic and in turn business / revenue / profits.
That is not surprising considering that we are a Web development firm well entrenched in the SEO market...
We are a relatively popular small business, thanks to our exposure in the various online communities, the length we have been in business, our contributions to our communities, our involvement in blogs, amongst other things...
There is a fun feature in the iPhone Siddur that shows some of the people who are using the Siddur at the time you are using it. This is a feature we released in our social update back in December 2008. You can see it yourself by going to the Siddur, clicking on "More" and then clicking on "Map...
You know that feeling you get when you go to a Gap store? The music, the ease of finding cool clothes, and the wonder of whether it’s within your price range? These are all incorporated into our contest entry for the best Gap iPhone App run by the Mobclix people...
I typically have a few in-person meetings per week with prospects and existing clients. Sometimes I can go a whole week without a meeting and sometimes my schedule is packed. This week, it is jammed packed...
A few programmers here at RustyBrick are UFC fans. (For those who don't know, UFC is Ultimate Fighting Championship which features mixed-martial artists fighting in "the octagon"...
This is a quick heads up that the RustyBrick office will be closed this coming Monday, September 28, 2009. We are closed in observance of Yom Kippur, a very important Jewish holiday. To learn more about this day, read the Wikipedia entry...
Scribblenauts is a puzzle solving video game for the Nintendo DS made by 5th Cell. The goal of the game is to help the protagonist, “Maxwell” complete puzzles to fetch and earn “starites”, which are big glowing stars...
Google made the official announcement that I can now use iPhone’s push technology to get notified when I get a new message. I jumped on board and quickly retreated. Here is what I experienced:
The directions were extremely clear and they worked just fine...
Still using Internet Explorer 6,7, or 8 and cannot or do not want to upgrade? Google now has a solution for that: Chrome Frame. I'm noticing a pattern here. First Google releases Chrome, a lightweight speedy web browser, in September 2008...
With version 4.1 of the iPhone Siddur now being available, a new feature has been unlocked for the Chabad community that prays using the Nusach Ari Siddur. We have worked out a deal with the Kehot Publication Society to have the official, copyrighted Nusach, available in our Siddur...
Great news, just in time for the holidays (not that you should use the iPhone Siddur on the holidays), Apple has approved version 4.1 of the Siddur...
One of RustyBrick's newest iPhone apps, Goldilocks and the Three Bears lets youngsters take advantage of the iPhone's touch screen with its 'press to speak' functionality. In both modes, anyone can tap a word to hear it spoken. In 'read to me' mode, the words are highlighted as the narrator reads them...