I am enormously happy to announce that Articles for iPhone won one of this years Apple Design Awards! Apple chose 5 out of over 200,000 apps, so you can imagine how delighted I feel right now.
…and all it got is this lousy update. But lets start from the beginning:
I‘m very pleased to announce that CoverSutra, my personal entry to the indie software scene, turned three years today. It‘s granted that a shiny new version 3.0 of CoverSutra would be a much better way to celebrate. But well, it looks like I got distracted by some iPhone app.
So instead I‘m releasing version 2.2.2, which fixes a rare crashing issue while showing the keyboard bezel.
If you‘re that particular guy with that issue: You‘re welcome!
I‘m sure you will agree that this lousy bugfix-release isn‘t a way to celebrate a birthday. So additionally CoverSutra will be on birthday sale for very iPhoneriffic $4.99!
This is your best chance to get a „valid“ license, you won‘t get it for a lower price anytime soon. But hurry, the sale ends this wednesday on January 27… just in time when Steve Jobs announces that Software as we know it today will be obsolete ;-)
Head over to the Store to snatch your license today!
CoverSutra 2.2 is now available. The Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or iTunes 9 and includes general fixes that enhance the stability and performance of CoverSutra. The new version also adds these specific fixes:
- CoverSutra is now compatible with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.
- Compatibility fixes for iTunes 9.
- CoverSutra now runs natively on 64bit Macs.
- Two times faster music search.
- The music search menu no longer displays podcasts, movies and TV shows.
- Changed the order in which playlists appear in the music search.
- CoverSutra no longer displays now playing notifications if iTunes is the frontmost application.
- Updated artwork for iTunes 9.
CoverSutra 2.2 is a free upgrade for existing customers.
Update: CoverSutra 2.2.1 is now available and includes the following fixes.
- Fixed Last.fm scrobbling issues.
- Fixed stability issues.
- Minor corrections and enhancements.
I‘m very pleased to announce that Groceries 2.0 is now available! There‘s a lot of improvements and fixes in this version, however the biggest enhancement in this release is the ability share shopping lists over standard email. Aisles and units are now more customizable, and it‘s even possible to define own supermarket layouts for each shopping list.
The Groceries 2.0 update is available directly from the App Store, and also (what a coincidence!) on sale for 99¢. This is a limited time offer, and no, the app won‘t get cheaper than this.
Mea Culpa
Sadly some users experienced a rather rough start into the new update. The app would just crash on launch when upgrading directly from version 1.0. Bugs like these are of course super annoying and are such a support hell for me. Have my word that I try even harder to detect such errors from now on.
However, you‘re not totally lost if you‘re experience this crash. Currently there are two options to choose from:
First there is the quick and dirty solution by deleting Groceries from your iPhone and downloading it again from the App Store. Apple won‘t charge you a second time. However, going this route will delete all your customized groceries and shopping list items. So think twice!
The second solution is to simply have patience. The updated version 2.0.1 is now in review by Apple and will surely be available by the week starting on monday. I know, waiting totally sucks but it‘s frankly the best solution with the given infrastructure.
Dankeschön!
I like to send out a big thank you to all the great artist who worked on Groceries so far. These are namely, and in alphabetical order: Emanuel Sá, Joseph Wain, Laurent Baumann, Louie Mantia, Sebastiaan de With and Wolfgang Bartelme.
Also a big thanks goes out to Buzz Anderson for making this super sweet progress indicator view that you‘ll see when importing a shopping list through mail.
I‘d also like to thank all of my testers, especially Alex, Maxie, Volker, Danny, David, Matt and the workers of The Iconfactory for giving me the kind of feedback that helped me to make the app stand out.
The new version 2.2 of Tipulator is now available through out the App Store.
New in this version is a fun shake feature to quickly erase the check amount for starting over.
More information about Tipulator can be found on the product page, or directly
on the App Store.
I’m proud to announce the immediate release of Groceries for the iPhone and iPod touch.
There’s nothing worse than getting home from the grocery store and suddenly realizing you forgot something you needed. For those of us who aren’t accustomed to making lists, it happens frequently. Paper and pen are so passé, though. Groceries aims to remedy the problem by easily allowing users to make grocery lists using a huge database of name brand and generic products.
More information about Groceries can be found on the product page, or directly
on the App Store.
It‘s surprising how fast time runs by. Today CoverSutra already turns two years old. I can still clearly remember the evening when I prepared version 1.0 for the public release. Believe me, it was an absolutely horrible day for me, not knowing if CoverSutra‘s sales will allow me to stay independent or not and, more importantly, if the Mac crowd would accept CoverSutra. A certain french artist even described it as „suffering a stressed german girl“. Well, well …
Now to the less boring part of the post: CoverSutra 2.1.6 is available now and should fix quite some smaller bugs and odds. Head over to the product page to download the update, or use the Build-in software update if you‘re already running CoverSutra.
But what would be a birthday without presents? So just for today CoverSutra is available for free! Go to the Store to get one of the cheapest CoverSutra serial numbers ever! Yeah I know, you could also use a pirated serial, but that‘s bad for your Karma, right?
Update: The birthday party is over, we’re resuming to regular pricing ;-).
Happy Birthday Wish CoverSutra! Great app and...