JULY 6, 2011
Users have already become accustomed to the vector based maps, the turn-by-turn car navigation, and maybe even the public transit directions available to the Android version of Google Maps/Navigation...
Users have already become accustomed to the vector based maps, the turn-by-turn car navigation, and maybe even the public transit directions available to the Android version of Google Maps/Navigation...
If you have a big home page with a lot of articles that have third party elements, such as Facebook Like buttons, or other JavaScript powered share buttons, you can greatly speed up the loading of your page by not loading the extras until the user's mouse cursor travels over them...
One of our most detailed and useful iPhone apps is the Siddur iPhone App designed for the Jewish community.
So when we noticed that it ranks number 65 in the top grossing apps within the iPhone App reference category, I was a bit shocked and happy...
Last Wednesday, while I was in Spain I was honored to have the priviliage to give a talk at the Red Innova conference on the latest trends in search.
Today, I spotted a tweet from @ivarrekve with a full version video of my talk at the event...
At RustyBrick I recently had the pleasure of working with TravelShark (formerly Swiftrank) to launch a new website for their featured hotel program...
The Jewish holiday of Shavout is coming up Tuesday night and TorahCafe.com, a Jewish video site, interviewed us for their Shavout Webcast.
The interview is named From Sinai to Cyberspace and at 19 minutes and 15 seconds in, Ronnie Schwartz is interviewed about our various apps...
Luis Ferrandiz invited me to speak in Madrid, Spain on search and SEO topics. I'll be speaking in two different locations, the first is at ISDI and the second is at the Red Innova event.
On June 14, 2011 I'll be in Madrid speaking at ISDI, Instituto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet...
Many RB blog readers are going to find the following statement blasphemous, but after a few years of owning my unibody Macbook, I've grown bored of its appearance. Yeah, I know it has nice minimalistic styling but after a while of staring at a plain silver laptop, I figured it was time for a change...
Earlier this week, I received an alert from Apple via Me.com that I had to upgrade my MobileMe calendar to the newer version because they have stopped syncing my information...
Yesterday afternoon Google blogged about a visualization tool they created to show you where in the world Googlers were searching and which languages those searches were in. They also announced that they open sourced the platform to allow any developer use the globe feature...
Earlier today (May 4, 2011) or possibly last night (May 3, 2011), I noticed a few odd posts on Facebook from friends with odd descriptions like "OMG this is amazing!" or "you MUST see this!" I didn't think anything of it and deleted the post...
One of the many benefits of working at RustyBrick is our company matched 401(k) program.
The way we like do things at RustyBrick is by the most efficient method as possible. It is what we do, we design systems to maximize company efficiencies...
This morning, Sunday April 24th, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood had a story on religion and technology since it is Easter Sunday.
As part of the segment, CBS interviewed RustyBrick and myself on our Jewish Prayer book, the iPhone Siddur...
Last night, News Channel 12, a local CableVision network, came to our offices to interview us on the No Chametz app. This comes the same day the Journal News published a story on us.
It was a fun experience, this was the first time a TV news channel came to our offices...
The Journal News, the local news paper in Rockland and Westchester County, New York featured RustyBrick on the cover page of the paper today.
The article is named Suffern twins' app is perfect for Passover by Laura Incalcaterra and photos by Matthew Brown...
As the holiday of Pesach (aka Passover) speedily approaches, Jews all over planet earth a busying themselves scouring every inch that they own for remnants of Chametz...
As you may know if you follow the RustyBrick blog, we've introduced company profile pages for each employee. These pages allow us to write a little about ourselves and explain some of the work we do at RustyBrick...
We track our iPhone App downloads and sales daily but we never really share that data with the public. This time, we have decided to share the downloads for the past month, for our Megillas Esther iPhone App.
As you know, the app was incredibly popular amongst Jewish iPhone users...