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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Launch Maps from your iPhone app
Maps Application allows you to view and search Google Maps, see traffic reports, satellite views, get directions from one location to another. Launching Maps application from your own iPhone application can be done with one line of code:
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 [...]
Android Marketplace Revenue Figures: Impressive Growth… or is it?
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’ [...]
iTunes Connect Error: “Upload Aborted or Timed Out.” when uploading app’s screenshots
When I first saw “Upload Aborted or Timed Out.” I was trying to replace a screenshot for Divine Office Mac on the iTunes Connect interface for the Mac App Store. But googling around I learned this also applies to iPad and iPhone apps. Here is how I solved the issue. After trying the usual stuff [...]
Develop your Angry Birds clone over a weekend with Corona SDK or GameSalad
If you have any interest in iPhone gaming development, you must have heard of Robert Nay, the 14-year-old developer from Utah that created Bubble Ball, a physics based puzzle game that reached the top #1 free game on the App Store in a matter of days, getting well over three million downloads. The moment I [...]
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% [...]
Our Lady of Medjugorje iPhone App featured on RTL TV network in Croatia!
Ivan Kalaica, Ana Gabric from the iOS team and Tomislav Bilic, Surgeworks’ Inchoo team lead, were interviewed earlier this week by RTL — the main national TV network in Croatia — about the release of our latest app: Medjugorje – Messages from Mary Queen of Peace.
Our Lady of Medjugorje, Top #1 Reference App In Italy and Croatia
The Medjugorje app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad — which features over 28 years of messages in English and Italian through an easy-to-use, immediate user interface. — has been the #1 App of the Reference Category on the App Store in Italy and Croatia and is still #1 in Croatia and #4 in Italy [...]



