APRIL 1, 2012
Yoni Glatt from the Jewish Press said in an article published yesterday in the magazine that the RustyBrick iPhone Siddur is the must have app have for any Jew with an iPhone. His words, "I can say that if I could only have one Jewish app on my iPhone the Siddur would be it...
I am honored to be the keynote speaker for the upcoming SEMSEO conference taking place in Hanover, Germany on June 15, 2012.
The German press release is out and lucky me, there is Google Translate...
I have been pretty bad at updating my personal blog this year, mostly because I am out of the groove. It is not a busy issue, because I blog like mad at my search blogs and even keep this site fairly updated...
Rabbi Jason Miller (@rabbijason) posted his annual top Jewish apps list at The Jewish Week today and I am happy to say we dominated the list. Out of the 30 apps who made the top list, 7 of them are RustyBrick Jewish iPhone Apps. For those math geeks, that is 23% of the apps on that...
Today Nike launches their highly anticipated Nike+ Fuelband, a very sleek and modern wristband that tracks your activity throughout the day...
Channel Two (aka ערוץ 2) in Israel seems to have featured some of our apps in their segment named "יקציות בסמארטפון לחרדים" or "Orthodox Smartphone Apps...
Ronnie's wife just a few hours ago had a baby girl. Congrats Ronnie and Civia!
That is their 3rd child and 3rd girl - 3 for 3! But that isn't the unusual part - what is a bit weird is that of all the kids to be born to the RustyBrick family, all of them are girls...
The end of next week I travel to Israel to 'chair' SMX Israel 2012.
SMX Israel, formerly known as SphinnCon Israel, a conference I've been running since 2008, is now officially known as an Search Marketing Expo, aka SMX, event...
We have published our first iBook on Apple iTunes for one of Shazak's books named Miracle Lights.
This is just in time for Chanukah - yes, as you can tell from the name and imagery of the book, this is a Jewish book for children on the holiday of Chanukah.
You can buy it on iTunes for $9.99...
This year's RustyBrick holiday gift for select clients are X-Mini II Capsule Speakers (aff link). They are small speakers that can be plugged into your computer or any audio jack, such as your iPhone or Android device. You can play music out of these little small balls and the sound quality is pretty darn...
Ronnie posted our Cyber Monday deals for our iPhone apps and I wanted to share the outstanding results from the sale.
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We started writing mobile apps over 5 years ago and this Monday, we will be offering our first - across the board - Cyber Monday Sale!
The savings are really great. You can save up to $4 per app! Apps that have never been on sale, are now on sale. This is a once in a lifetime...
Are you headed to one of the upcoming synagogue conferences? ShulCloud by RustyBrick will be at the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim at the Resource Fair and the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial exhibits. We will also be giving away handouts at some of the other conventions...
On Apple.com, Apple announced Steve Jobs has passed away. There is a tribute post at apple.com/stevejobs.
This is indeed a very sad day for Apple and virtually all people the Apple brand has touched. May he rest in peace.
Michael Mozart of JeepersMedia, who is best known for his "Fail Toy Reviews" videos on his incredibly popular YouTube channel with 400,000 subscribers and over 100 million video views, interviewed me earlier this afternoon...
I'm currently on Google Chrome 13 and just noticed the web page preloading in a real life scenario. You can reproduce the effect and try it yourself by following these steps:
Go to Google...
We had the annual RustyBrick BBQ this Sunday...
In the wake of Google+, first Facebook partners with Skype to offer video chat to its 750 million+ users. Today, they have an answer to both Huddle and Google Latitude: Messenger...
Today is the third birthday of our iPhone Siddur and to celebrate, for the first time in 3 years, we have changed the price!
Today - August 4th, and only today, we are giving a 50% discount on the iPhone Siddur and Siddur HD for iPad...