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...
Google recently stepped up their multiple languages game by adding support for additional languages in their Languages API. This includes nine new typing layouts for their drop-in virtual keyboard typer for form field controls...
Over the years, I have been to many conferences, mostly in the search marketing space. Since we don't officially sell "SEO services," although our sites are very search engine friendly, there is no real need for us to speak or exhibit at these conferences...
RustyBrick has a long standing policy of not outsourcing our technology outside of the people who work exclusively for RustyBrick. That means, all the technology that comes out of our company, all our web sites and backend technology, is home grown directly by one of the people from the RustyBrick...
Finally! I'm not sure when this feature was added, but I just noticed it recently. When doing a search within a region on the primitive-yet-popular classifieds super-site Craigslist.org, if there aren't many results in the region it will include results from "nearby" areas...
With the iPhone expected to be fully (minus songs in iTunes) supported by three major mobile providers in Israel either this month or in October 2009, we have decided to start localizing our some of our iPhone apps into Hebrew...
Today is Labor Day and yes, I am here in the office, but so are most RustyBrickers. Why? Well, many prefer to work today and use the day off for another day. But that is not the topic of this blog post...
The open graphics format called scalable vector graphics (SVG), and the animation of it, has not seen much use on the web, despite becoming a W3C recommendation about 8 years ago. Why? Lack of support in Internet Explorer (please die!), of course...
Mabe, the "creative director" on our team, has just left for a two week vacation. Two weeks! Honestly, I can't get over it - two full weeks away from the office, not checking in, zero communication, etc...
Well, Snow Leopard is here and a couple RustyBrick employees went to the Apple Store on launch day to grab our copies. So, let's dscuss the purchasing, unboxing and installation experience.
Purchasing:
We strolled into the Apple Store in West Nyack, NJ (located in the Palisades Mall)...
When I first heard I had an interview with a web development company called RustyBrick I immediately rushed to see their web site. As the site loaded I kind of stared blankly at the page. I was not impressed. The whole layout seemed outdated; bordering on bland.
This is the original design of the...
Happy 8th Birthday, Internet Explorer 6! (Please Die Now)
It's a call I get frequently...
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Oh wow....what can I say? There is nothing more joyous than meeting with a potential client who shows up with food! These cupcakes not only looked heavenly they tasted delicious. I think Wesley nearly swooned from the sugar rush...
I jumped on the OpenID (wiki) bandwagon a few months ago when I realized that, through its widespread adoption and use, we may one day never have to register (and thus memorize or record) a username and password for every single website we want to interact with...