SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (December 8, 2011)—The Divine Office Catholic Ministry in partnership with Surgeworks, a Salt Lake City-based application developer and graphical interaction design firm, has announced a new app for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch based on The Original Catholic Encyclopedia. Introducing Catholicpedia The Catholicpedia App makes The Catholic Encyclopedia available on iPhone, [...]
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HP TouchPad sold out, but WebOS has a not-so-bright future ahead.
In my opinion, WebOS was extremely promising, but a couple years late. If HP acquired palm 12 months earlier they would have had better chances. I had a nice brief discussion about the HP TouchPad and WebOs the day the news came out. It was just very clear to me that WebOS and the TouchPad [...]
iOS 5 AirPlay Mirroring, Apple living room revolution coming this fall.
AirPlay Mirroring displays anything that appears on your iPad 2 onto your TV screen, wirelessly via the latest Apple TV box (the small black one). It works with the core iPad 2 interface as well as any apps, games, videos, and so on. It even adjusts for portrait or landscape mode, completely mirroring everything you [...]
Bible App: awesome update coming to the Mac App Store!
The first Bible reader on the Mac App Store is just about to get a lot better, and it’s ready for Mac OS X Lion! We improved our Bible App on three main fronts: Contents, Navigation and Search features. The Bible App is so easy to navigate, you don’t need to be a scholar to [...]
How to close, quit and restart apps on iPad and iPhone
This is a classic: an app stops working correctly, so you hit the home button and open the app again thinking: “I restarted the app but this didn’t fix the problem”… But the truth is that iOS on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch handles multiple apps running at the same time (multitasking) by saving the [...]
Will Apple iCloud API support Android, Windows?
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs introduced iCloud and mentioned a couple of things while doing so that made people wonder if iCloud will be an iOS an OS X specific technology or if it will be made available to 3rd parties platforms and establish itself as an industry standard instead. Apple’s CEO mentioned iCloud would [...]
How to Sync (synchronize) iPhone and Mac OS X Address Book with Android, Windows Phone 7, Nokia through Google’s GMail
If you’re like me, you may have iPhones, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 devices hanging around. So you got a new Android or Windows Phone 7 device and want to transfer your existing address book as is on your iPhone or Mac with all your contacts to your new smart phone. Assuming hat you [...]
Bible App: The Best Mac Bible Reader Software on the Mac App Store
Developed by Surgeworks in partnership with the Divine Office Catholic Ministry, this beautifully crafted, simple to use Bible Reader Software for Mac is now the Top Paid Reference App in the Mac App Store. Bible App is so easy to navigate, you don’t need to be a scholar to use it. It’s the Bible reader [...]
Steve Jobs to introduce iCloud, iOS 5, Lion at Apple’s June 6 WWDC keynote
The Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will begin Monday, June 6 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Apple confirmed that it will show off iCloud, “Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.” The Cupertino company also announced today that Steve Jobs will return to the stage to present Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, iOS 5 and the above mentioned [...]
How to build your own Nokia Symbian App with the Ovi App Wizard
Building mobile apps for iOS, that’s what we have been doing for years. With the Divine Office products line and for the Divine Office Catholic Ministry, we have built recently our first Android app and we have been asked to support more and more platforms. Some people asked for a Nokia app. I don’t think [...]
How to find out your Facebook Page and Twitter RSS Feed URL
You can still get RSS/ATOM feeds out of the two most popular social networks, it’s just not reachable through a link anywhere. Here is how to build up your URL to access your RSS feed of status updates for both Facebook and Twitter. To get an RSS feed for a Facebook page, use this URL: [...]
Surgeworks’ first Android App is the Best Catholic Mobile Application
The long awaited Android version of the Divine Office award-winning mobile app is now available for a one-time purchase price of 14.99 USD on the Google Android Market and on the Amazon Android Appstore. This app is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours: the public prayer [...]
Surgeworks launches “Bible App” for Mac OS X on Mac App Store (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (May 31, 2011)—The Divine Office Catholic Ministry in partnership with Surgeworks, a Salt Lake City-based application developer and graphical interaction design firm, has announced a new app for the Apple Mac App Store based on 20 versions of the Bible in six different languages. The Bible App features scriptures in English, [...]
Get positive, 5 star reviews for your iPhone or iPad App with Request a Review Alert for iOS SDK
Invite your happy users to leave a review for your app, after 10, 20 or 30 days of use. An alert will pop up, similar to the image above, and the user will have the option to go to the App Store in order to leave a review, hide the alert temporary or permanently. Analyzing [...]
Surgeworks Tag Cloud Component for iOS SDK, 3D Tag Cloud for iPhone, iPad
TagCloudView control by Surgeworks is an interactive 3D tag cloud control to be used in iPhone and iPad applications. The package includes a multi platform static library that you can link to your projects together with exhaustive documentation and sample applications for both iPhone and iPad running iOS 4. Tag clouds became increasingly popular these [...]