Where is all the High Tech, Sesame?

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AUGUST 24, 2009

My kids are finally old enough for some serious vacationing.  This year, my wife and I joined the thousands of Americans and brought our kids to Sesame Place.  It was a hot day and as expected, there were lots of people everywhere.  To my surprise, however, there was not much technology...

RB + Video Games + UFC

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AUGUST 24, 2009

It probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone, but many of us here at RustyBrick enjoy video games. Well, that may be an understatement. There are a few of us that REALLY enjoy video games, myself included. We also happen to be very competitive...

Speeding Up the iPhone Siddur

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AUGUST 24, 2009

I already blogged about the issue with Hebrew rendering incredibly slowly in the new version (version 3.x) of the iPhone operating system. But I keep getting questions about this, so I thought I give you guys some tips on how to improve the speed of the iPhone Siddur, if you find it a bit ti slow...

Creating iPhone Children's Books - The Goldilocks Example

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AUGUST 21, 2009

My daughter loves when my wife and I read her children’s books before bed. Typically after a book is done we get the “one more” plea and it’s usually too hard to resist. Once the iPhone joined our family, the children’s books had some competition...

Pre Anti-Semitism

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Our first Palm Pre application was just pushed to the App Catalog. We are very excited about this and you can learn more about the Shabbat Shalom Palm Pre App at our site or download it for free in the App Catalog...

RustyBrick iPhone App Gets AdSense

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AUGUST 7, 2009

When Google announced AdSense for mobile apps, I bugged Google to let me in. They did and finally, our iPhone Hebrew Translator app now has AdSense in the app. It is actually performing extremely well, I think because we dynamically load the translation terms into the AdSense system...

RustyBrick Brews Girls and Girls Only

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AUGUST 6, 2009

As many of you know, I had my first child, about three months ago, it was a girl.

But did you know that RustyBrickers who have children only have girls? We have a total five RustyBrick kids, all of them are girls...

fluke aka iCrap

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DECEMBER 29, 2008

So, I normally don't blog about my iPhone apps but I this app is near and dear to me. I love time fillers. I can't stand doing nothing. In comes fluke - random app finder. Basically I have a database of all of the iPhone apps out there (currently over 16,000) and pick one out of the hat on demand...

My Wife, The Tile Gal

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

My wife is extremely talented. She has amazing patience and artistic creativity. Her latest venture is

Pomona Shul is Coming Soon

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MAY 23, 2008

We are working on putting up a website for my synagogue located in the woods of Pomona, NY 10970. Keep your eye out at:

Enhancing Matzah with Tomato Salad

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MAY 19, 2008

Today marks a special day in the Jewish calendar, Pesach Sheni. Literally, the second Passover, Jews have a custom to eat a piece of matzah. The standard rules of Passover do not apply today, so I decided to enhance my matzah with some yummy tomato salad that my wife made me...

"Lastest" Microsoft Remote Desktop Running Late

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APRIL 10, 2008

I've been beta testing Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection for the past couple of months. All of a sudden the following screen started to appear. First response was to hit the return key, which brought me to Microsoft's Mac homepage...

Setting Up Google Ad Manager On Your Site or Blog

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MARCH 25, 2008

Last Updated: 03/25/2008

It has been about two weeks since Google launched Ad Manager. Most people do not even have access to the new beta ad management software, but for some reason, I always had access...

HMS Home Warranty is a Scam

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Bought a new home. Inspector told us the boiler reached it lifetime but was still working. We decided to get a home warranty to cover us if the boiler were to give up within the first year. We acquired the house and everything was fine, for a week. After that, we started smelling fumes from the boiler room...