Cool Stuff I Worked On

This is a partial list of the projects I leaded and of the great people I worked with to bring these great products to life.

Mobile and Desktop Apps

Bible App for Mac

The first Bible Reader App in the Mac App Store. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Mauro Dalu. Mauro leaded the app design and development as project manager and product owner. Version 1.0 launched on June 1st 2011. The app got in the Top Paid 100 overall paid apps in the first few days in the Mac App Store and is #1 Top Paid App for the Reference Category. The Bible App is the Mac Bible software anyone can use: simple, elegant and user friendly, it was created with Ivan Kalaica, Renato Carvalho, Rafael Torales, Lyssandro Reis, Ney Ricardo.

Divine Office Nokia App

Surgeworks’ First Nokia App. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Mauro Dalu. Version 1.0 launched in June 2010 and was created with the Ovi App Wizard. Web Back-end development by Darko Goles.

Divine Office Android App

Surgeworks’ First Android App. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Mauro Dalu. Mauro leaded the app design and development as project manager and product owner. Version 1.0 launched in May 2010 and was created with Ibrahim Bachtiar and Ney Ricardo.

Medjugorje and Compendium iPhone and iPad Apps

The Only App About Medjugorje on iPhone. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Mauro Dalu. Mauro leaded the app design and development as project manager and product owner. Version 1.0 was created for with Ivan Kalaica, Ana Gabric and Monica Geana. Based on the same code base of the Prayer app, these apps bring respectively all the messages of Our Lady of Peace from Medjugorje and the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the iPhone and iPad devices.

Prayer App, 2000+ Catholic Prayers for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

The Most Comprehensive Catholic Prayers Resource on the iOS Platform. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Mauro Dalu. Mauro leaded the app design and development as project manager and product owner. Version 1.0 was created for with Radu Cojocaru in a matter of a couple of weeks. In February 2010 we revamped the app with Jeffry Degrande, Ivan Kalaica, Ana Gabric and Monica Geana, bringing the database from a few hundreds of prayers to over 2,000 and making the app jump to the top 10 for the Reference category in the App Store in USA, Italy and a few other countries. Today, the Prayer app is Divine Office Catholic Ministry’s most popular paid app.

Divine Office iPhone and iPad Universal App

Surgeworks’ First iPhone App. — Created for Surgeworks, Inc. and Divine Office Catholic Ministry. Concept by Dane Falkner. Mauro leaded the app design and development as project manager. Version 1.0 launched in late 2008 and was created by Mauro Dalu and Goran Pinjusic. Version 2.0 was designed and developed by Ivan Kalaica, Luka Gabric, Ana Gabric, Renato Carvalho.

Web sites

Divine Office Website

What is now my full-time focus — The Divine Office Catholic Ministry website and podcast. Concept by Dane Falkner and Greg Pendoza. Mauro leaded the website design and development as project manager. The site got live in 2007 and was created by Mauro Dalu with Radu Cojocaru, Jeffry Degrande, Rafael Torales, and the contribution of many more people at Surgeworks. The content was produced by Dane Falkner with Greg Pendoza and a team of volunteers and managed with Monica Geana and a handful other content entry managers over time.

Catholic Classes

My First Project at Surgeworks — A website to gather commentary sessions of the RCIA for St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Holladay, Utah. Powered by WordPress and PodPress, developed by Mauro Dalu and designed by Erika Provinzano. This is where the Divine Office podcast started before it outgrew the Catholic Classes initiative.

Web Apps

Discontinued: Tell-a-friend plug-in for WordPress

Released in December 2006, last updated in October 20008, this plug-in for WordPress 2.x adds a tell-a-friend form that allows your visitor to send a message to their friends about your website. DISCONTINUED: Please note I am not actively supporting or maintaining this plug-in. Learn more about this plug-in on this blog post.

Discontinued: iPassion CMS Espresso

Lightweight content management system for small websites, no database backend, storage in flat text files. Template system with meta-code allowed to output themes from Photoshop to customize the site design. FCK wysiwyg editor.

Discontinued: iPassion CMS

Feature rich content management system for corporate websites and franchisors. Pages and subpages, multi-user enviroment, integrated newsletter manager, legacy template system and meta-code template system with easy to customize design, FCK wysiwyg wysiwyg editor.

Mac Software

Discontinued: Mac OS X Dock Separators

A goodie to keep clean the Mac OS X dock, this package was first released in 2004 and got over 12,000 downloads in the first 12 months. Here’s the description:

With MacOS X you can customize toolbars in the finder.So why can’t you customize your dock as well? With Dock Separators you can group your applications simply by dragging a copy of your favorite separator into the dock. You may just as easily remove a separator by dragging it away from the dock.

Discontinued: Mac OS X Think Different Screen Saver

This is a screen saver I built in year 2003 as a tribute to Apple. It got over 10,000 downloads before I stopped counting.

“iPassion wants to bring back to life Apple’s Think Different campaign with this screen saver. This is a tribute to Apple, doing what others don’t dare (or care) to. Unfortunatelly, what’s left of this historical ad campaign on Apple’s website lies in a simple press release library webpage and a “memorial” page. We want more. We want the posters and the places where those posters have been to fade in and out on our Mac’s display.”

Discontinued: Mac OS X Shut Down Timer

A very small AppleScript experiment I did and pushed on VersionTracker back in 2006, this is just a silent, simple, 3-lines-of-code AppleScript that tells the finder to shut down. Please note that Shut Down Timer will not answer to any application complaining about un-saved documents. So the Mac will actually not turn off if anything goes wrong.