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Last night, our latest crazy iPhone app was approved. It is named Bleeper and all it does is allow you to record yourself and click on the "bleep" icon to play that bleep sound. Yea, kind of funny and pointless - but perfect as an iPhone App, don't you think...

My brother in Israel called me to ask me if I saw the YNet article (Google translate version) where they say the iPhone is coming to Israel in a "few days." I said, "that can't be true," I would have heard something about that...

We have just uploaded version 4.2 of the iPhone Siddur to Apple for their approval. We hope it gets approved swiftly, within two weeks - but we have very little control over that...

With the vast majority of internet users surfing on high speed broadband connections (94% of active internet users in the USA), should we, as website owners and developers, even bother optimizing and shrinking our code, content, and resources? Yes...

Last week, I was in Las Vegas at the wonderful PubCon conference, where a bunch of webmasters, SEOs and affiliate venture to network and learn. I spoke on a panel named Search Bloggers: What's Hot and Trending...

Yesterday, I was interviewed, back to back, by two publications on the Google Caffeine index. In short, Google is working on a new index (database) to discover, store and process their data. They have been testing this index on a Sandbox domain, at www2.sandbox.google.com until yesterday morning...

[Photo Credit: Safari Sucks] My girlfriend and I love our Apple Macbooks. We're Mac fans. While most of my work gets done on Windows machines, most of my "fun" is on my Mac. Why? Because Apple software is excellent. It's streamlined, lightweight, powerful and reliable...

This morning, as some of you know, I was on a panel named The State of Contextual Advertising: USA vs. Global Trends, Strategic Overview and Emerging Trends...

Google has just released what appears to be their entire library of JavaScript packages that they've used across all of their web applications (Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs) to keep a common look and feel and provide a consistant cross-browser experience...

As many of you know, RustyBrick had a Halloween contest and a PollDaddy poll was set up in order to vote for the winner. It was going to be a tough race. First of all, Mabe had an outstanding satyr costume. Both Jimmy and Joe submitted adorable shots of their children all dressed up...

Image credit: TwisterMc on flickr A few of us on the RustyBrick team dressed up for Halloween, which is tomorrow. We figured, we run a small contest. Vote below for your favorite Halloween costume and the winner will get a $50 iTunes gift card. Note, we did allow kids to be added to this bunch...

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr Twitter has been the craze over the last year or two. Yes, of course, RustyBrick is on Twitter @rustybrick, we have been since Mar 11, 2007. We have also had an impersonator, where someone was pretending to be us...

var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); Prototype vs jQueryBefore I joined RustyBrick I had been coding basic JavaScript functionality into websites mostly "by hand", in other words, without using a well defined third party package. The exception is the Yahoo...

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr Barry recently ordered the Verizon Wireless MiFi wireless router and mobile broadband device. In fact, he documented the first MiFi speed tests in Suffern, New York...