For a some time I’ve thrown around the idea of having an internship program for PocketFullOfApps, but never decided on anything until now. After some careful consideration and talking to the fellow team members, I’m proud to announce the PocketFullOfApps Internship Program where we will bring two interns onto the team for two months. Those interns who we choose will have the opportunity to join a well established tech and gaming blog and reach a monthly audience of over 600,000 page views. This is a perfect opportunity for those who want to get a start in the tech blogging and writing world, but don’t know where to begin.

Requirements:

• Five hours a week of free time.
• Minimum of three articles a week with at least 250 words per article.
• Enthusiastic about technology and gaming (mobile and desktop included).
• WordPress or CMS experience (recommended).
• Previous journalism, writing, or blogging experience (recommended).

How to apply:

• Send over your resume, cover letter (optional), and any previous work examples to: admin[@]pocketfullofapps[dot]com.
• Briefly explain why you would like to write for PocketFullOfApps and why we should choose you.

The internship program will be overseen by Joshua Pasholk, Jeremy McGinty, and myself. If you are a viable candidate, you will be contact with further details and a Skype interview or chat may be conducted as well. From there, we will notify you if you’re selected for one of the two internship positions and finalize any details. Even though this is an unpaid internship, interns may be offered a permanent position on the team and/or use this as a reference on their resume upon completion and a final review.

To all of our awesome readers and fans that use Safari on Mac OS X, we have some exciting news for you. After some tinkering around for a little bit, we’ve finally implemented Push Notifications for Mac OS X Mavericks. With this feature, you can easily stay updated whenever we post a new article. If you don’t feel like subscribing, no problem at all, but you may miss out on occasional giveaways we do like Modern Combat 5: Blackout and $15 USD of Bitcoin. That being said, feel free to fire up Safari on Mac OS X Mavericks and give our new Push Notification system a try!

Striving to do our best not only with providing news on all things related to Apple, but also doing our best to keep your info secure and private, we are proud to announce that the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug has been patched on our server. That being said, we urge you to change your password here at PocketFullOfApps and any other website as well. To change your password, click here to login and follow the necessary steps, from there write down your password, memorize it, or use a secure password manager. If you want to verify that we are update to date and not vulnerable, head over to this website and type in our address. Like always you can expect us to do our best to keep your data secure and provide you the best news and reviews possible. Last but certainly not least, we are looking to restart our newsletter subscription that will offer weekly or bi-weekly summaries as well as special news or offers that you may not see here publicly.

Over the years, PocketFullOfApps has had tremendous growth and has gone through a lot of changes as well. The website first started in June of 2009 as a small blog that only got a minuscule 100 pageviews a day. Fast forward almost four years later and PocketFullOfApps now serves over half a million page views a month along with 150,000 unique visits. With all that traffic and growth we had to switch from a shared hosting to something with a little more power. So with that said, through process of elimination we ended up switching to a fantastic hosting company called The Temple Host that we’ll have a follow up review on later today.

Freebies!

Want to win some free iOS games, money, or PocketFullOfApps apparel? Awesome! If you find anything wrong with the site, let us know and you can win some cool prizes. In order to get your prize, we must be able to verify and replicate the problem from our end. What can the errors/problems include? Well it can include a whole range of things, but most notably broken links, missing images, and the website not displaying properly would be most common. We’ve done our best to do what we can and offer a great viewing experience, but maybe we overlooked something. So basically if you come across something you think may not be normal or right, let us know and we’ll back in contact with you.

Had a busy day and running low on time but still want to get your fill of iOS news for the day? Well no problem about that! Here at PocketFullOfApps we’ve got a brand new addition to the website that’s all about highlighting some of the more popular articles. It’s pretty straight forward — we’ve got a 3 by 3 grid setup that each have a picture representing that particular post. See an article you’re interested in? Awesome! Click on the image or title and it will automatically redirect you to that selected article. It get’s better though — you can sort each featured article by various categories with a cool animation.

So, why not give it a try? Let us know what you think in the comments or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear them!