Santa brought us a cool gift this year: a Kindle Fire tablet. At a first glance we were astonished: “Why?! We’ve been good boys through the whole year. Why are being punished?”. It’s not and iPad, but ok. Heh, just kidding… I couldn’t lose the opportunity. What can you expect from Apple fanboys? Ok, seriously. [...]
We’ve just arrived from an awesome conference that opened our minds to new ideas and point of views. Yes, last week we were at Interaction South America (#ixdsa11), a conference with emphasis on Interaction Design, that happened in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. The event had the presence of some of the most talented designers, engineers and architects of [...]
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, [...]
The responsive web design comes as a solution to better display content across tablets, mobiles phones and laptops of the most varied screen sizes and resolutions. In order to achieve a responsive layout, all we need is: a Flexible grid, Flexible Content (Images and Media) and CSS Media Queries. The use of these three main [...]
Brasilia is the capital of Brazil (did you really think it was Rio or Buenos Aires?), and is located right in the middle of the Country. The city, curiously, was built in only five years (well, good part of it) and its structure has the shape of an airplane. I could cite a lot more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Surgeworks is proud to be a sponsor of the Social Commerce Exchange, a free event to learn how to use Social Media effectively to grow your business. Come learn from leading Social Commerce experts about real strategies you can implement within your company. The Social Commerce Exchange is a unique and collaborative conference format that [...]
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 [...]
We are very proud to announce the winner of the Dribbble Invite Contest. After analyzing carefully the work of the participants we have finally chosen the one who is being invited today. We’d like to congratulate Felipe Luize for his creativity and simplicity with the wallpapers shown above. See Felipe’s winner tweet. If you like [...]
Getting into the Responsive Grid On the first part of this post, I have explained a bit about Compass and how to get it running. Now let’s use Compass to build our Responsive Grid. To better understand what I will be explaining, I recommend you download the sample code and follow it as you read [...]
I started my career doing Art Direction for print advertising; I learnt how to direct my creative process in many ways and an important factor to be taken into consideration was the media type and size – Magazine, Tabloid, Billboard, all the media sizes were fixed and I knew exactly the canvas size. After migrating [...]
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 [...]
Creating a Facebook fan page can be really easy, but what people don’t know is why to create one. A fan page is just like a profile page, except that it is more suitable to companies or professional promotion. There you can post all the information about the company, news, photos, answer people’s questions, etc. just [...]
With the markets for mobile devices and applications growing and changing so quickly, it’s difficult to see too far into the future except to say “more.” An article from FastCompany shows that the average smartphone user is consuming 435MB each month, increasing 89% over the last year. Popular apps such as Netflix and Pandora can [...]