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.

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Apple Design Award Winners

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!

Download CoverSutra 2.2.2

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 ;-)

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.

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 ;-).