Mobile Apps Looking Forward

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 [...]

Market Research: iOS Digital Magazines and Content Delivery with Subscription Business Model Through App Store In-App Purchases.

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Why should we look into in-app purchases? Most of the top grossing apps in the iTunes App Store are now driving revenue with in-app purchases. Of the top 20 grossing game apps, 12 (60 percent) drive revenue with in-app purchases – nine (45 percent) of them are free apps with the only revenue source being [...]

How to: Fresh Install of Your Dev App

So you just got a new version of your unreleased app from the developers and you want to check it out as soon as possible, right?  Most of the time you could just drag it into iTunes and sync, but sometimes they tell you need to do a fresh install.  Here’s a breakdown of how [...]

Apple’s future secret plans revealed? iPhone 5, iPhone Nano, iPad 2 and 3, new Apple TV, new MacBook Air

As rumors multiply in anticipation of Apple’s March 2nd event we see the full 2011 pipeline of Apple products being listed and lots of details leaking about each of these products. This doesn’t really sound like Apple does it? Still, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail, eastern manufacturers, and more of those anonymous [...]

About.com 2011 Reader's Choice Awards

Surgeworks has been selected as a finalist in the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards!  These awards recognize the Internet’s most popular apps, websites and more – it’s a big honor for us and we are excited to see that some of the work we’ve done for the Catholic community is recognized and appreciated.  You can read [...]

Divine Office iPhone and iPad App, Podcast and Web Site finalist at About.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards

About.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards will showcase the best products, features and services in multiple categories, from technology to hobbies to parenting to religion. Nominations were accepted from January 13, 2011, until February 4, 2011. DivineOffice.org has been selected as one of the five finalists for Best Catholic Website in the 2011 About.com Catholicism Readers’ [...]

Core Data

Core Data is a framework that allows creating relational data base. How to create a project using Core Data is shown on example which stores names. Create new project, choose “Window-based Application” and “Use Core Data for storage” (image 1). In “Resources” you will find xcdatamodel file in which you can see entities, attributes and [...]

Android Marketshare Tops iPhone

Google’s Android mobile platform just stepped ahead of Apple’s iPhone among smartphone subscribers.  That’s what the latest figures from from comScore‘s mobile phone trending research are showing for November 2010.  Although both platforms trail BlackBerry’s 33.5% market share, Android jumped more than 6% to secure 26% of the market while the iPhone grew just 0.8% [...]