Nathan Becker from the Dow Jones Newswires reports that for the three-month period ended in October, Blackberry-maker RIM again had the biggest market share at 35.8%, according to comScore Inc. But that was down 3.5 percentage points from the prior three-month period. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone operating system remained at No. 2, gaining 0.8 point to [...]
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Xcode 3.2.5 in iOS SDK 4.2 finally uploads a binary to the App Store in the background!
Developers rejoice! Xcode finally submits your binaries to the App Store in multi-threading, allowing you to continue to work with it while you upload your apps. This has been a feature I’ve been waiting for ever since we started working with iPhone apps: back when the App loader was in its early stages, we were [...]
Learn & Improve your Vocabulary in 5 Languages with Letter Blocks 3D on your iPhone, iPod and iPad
A great update to our word game was released yesterday. The new Letter Blocks 3D is faster and got optimized to run great even on older devices. Be sure to check out our FREE Christmas edition as well! Letter Blocks is an educational game series that is fun and enjoyable for all the family: an [...]
The best Christmas themed 3D Word Game of 2010 Holiday season on iPhone and iPod Touch is here, and it’s FREE!
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (November 22, 2010)—Surgeworks Mobile Lab — the mobile devices application design and development team at Surgeworks, Inc. — releases a free Christmas themed game for iPhone and iPod Touch, as a holiday season edition of the original 3D word game, Letter Blocks World. The game challenges players to manipulate 3D letter [...]
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How to make an iPhone/iPad app promo video
iPhone app marketing is the final frontier today: you have done a great app or game and you release it, is it enough to sell? Unless your app is unique in its kind, which gets harder to achieve every day, that is not enough. One of the key press and marketing materials you should consider [...]
A taste of iLife 2011 on your iPad
While iMovie is already available for iPhone 4 and a new iPad will be presented early next year, Apple is preparing iOS 4.2 to support a full content creation suite a la iLife by adding Core Midi support. The iPad is a great content consumption device, the next iPad focus will be social interaction (FaceTime [...]
iOS 4 adoption rate: how many iPhones are running iOS 4 vs OS 3? Numbers and percentages exposed!
On July 22nd Chitika advertising network published a report revealing that Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, was already accounting for 50% of all iPhone web traffic only one month after being officially released. But what’s the status today?
Top 10 Most Popular iPhone Word Games
According to 148Apps, “the word game genre suffers from a deluge of clones, and like all of the App Store, finding the best apps can be hard”. That’s why they built a top 6 at the end of last year to recommend the best apps that existed back then. That’s why when we decided to [...]
iPhone & iPad Apps on Apple TV? Dreaming of a less conservative Jobs
Steve Jobs is doing that all over again. He’s releasing a new cool product without unleashing its full potential, in a proven strategy of adding obviously missing features to a product with a follow up update — if the product sells well enough. He did it with the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad [...]
iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPad revision and new mysterious iDevice coming in autumn
A lot and a little at the same time is known about the next generation iPod Touch. Rumors are everywhere already, but we really don’t know for sure any of its specs. The new iTouch will likely rely on the A4 CPU, feature a camera and a front-facing camera, gyroscope and a higher resolution display. [...]
How to install QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without the DVD
If you found this post, you need some feature that used to be available in QuickTime Player 7 PRO and you can’t find it anymore on your hard disk after a clean install of Snow Leopard. That’s because Apple decided QuicktTime Player X didn’t need all the extra features… Too bad that means you can’t [...]
Press Release: Popular Prayer App Update Adds New Features and iPad Support
The Ministry of Divine Office, a non-profit group that offers the “Liturgy of the Hours” collection of Roman Catholic prayers online and via the iPhone and iPod Touch, in partnership with Surgeworks, Inc. has released the latest version of its “Prayer” app with two new features and iPad compatibility. Prayer is available on the App [...]
How to video: Jailbreak & Unlock your iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G running iOS 4 and 4.0.1 in 10 minutes or less
A hacker who uses the handle “comex,” a member of the iPhone Dev Team, released the new jailbreak system through a website, jailbreakme.com. Users can visit the site from their iPhone browser to execute the jailbreaking process: no connection to a Mac or a PC is required, everything happens in a few minutes and he [...]
Would you like to beta test our next iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch game?
Are you an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch user? Would like to play an active role in iPhone games and app creation? Are you a passionate, U.S. based “iUser” that purchases a few apps from the App Store every month? Surgeworks is in the final stages of development of a new exciting word game named [...]