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… →
Mauro Dalu
Project Manager at Surgeworks
Mauro is a Project Manager at Surgeworks, and Lead Designer and WordPress Developer at Divine Office Catholic Ministry. In 2017 Mauro has managed, designed and developed the second version of the Dyno Nobel's Explosive Engineers' Guide App for iOS and Android.
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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… →
Jailbreak & Unlock your iPhone: now legal in the US
On July 26 the US government announced new rules that make it officially legal for iPhone owners to “jailbreak” their device and run unauthorized third-party applications. Unlocking a smartphone for use on a different carrier then you got it with has been legal in the US (thanks to a DCMA exception) as well as in… →
iTunes and Xcode 3.2.3 do not recognize iPhone on Mac OS X 10.6
Before wasting too much time messing with cables and blaming USB ports (like I did), check on Apple’s Software Update if the iPhone SDK Compatibility Update 1.0 is there for you to install. The solution to your problem is just a handful of kilobytes and one restart away :)
iPhone 4 reception issue: myth or fact? Design flaw or software issue?
If you’re left handed like me, forget being able to use an iPhone 4 without a case. Here are the myths and facts about the iPhone 4 reception issues. I’ve been thinking of how Apple could resolve the issue with a software update: they could determine how you’re holding the phone, perhaps thanks to the… →
How to build and submit a Universal App for distribution on the App Store with the iOS 4 SDK
Today I’ve been working on submitting an update to our popular Catholic Prayers database app: it’ll be our first Universal application to hit the App Store. Ever since we upgraded to the latest SDK we can only build for iOS 4, but we’ve set the iPhone OS Deployment Target to be 3.1.3. That way, our… →
Microsoft Pink smartphone project: KIN gets killed
After HP acquired and killed the WebOS Smartphone platform, another one bites the dust. As we reported in march, the Danger group Microsoft acquired — a Java-based smartphone platform that pioneered messaging-oriented phones targeted at younger people — has been working for two years on “Pink,” a top secret project operating independently from Windows Mobile,… →