Our congratulations to the Winners of Christmas Giveaway!

Thanks a lot for many happy wishes and thoughts that you shared with us these days. We have randomly selected 40 winners and will send them promo codes by email within one day.

List of winners who will receive iOS version of iStudiez Pro for free (just to remind that iStudiez Pro goes universal for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad):

And here is the list of winners who will receive promo codes for Mac version of iStudiez Pro for free:


Again, thanks a lot for everyone! Those who did not win this time please don’t be sad, your participation is still greatly appreciated.

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Merry Christmas and best wishes from iStudiez Team!

It is Christmas night and we are happy to have now so many friends and followers from all over the world.
We have grown bigger and better (at least most of you confirm so ;)) and as always we are very much inspired by your continuous support and feedback.

Today we want to thank again to all the volunteer translators who helped us localize the app into more than 25 languages, to all of our beta-testers for their work and support, to all our reviewers and blogger friends who continue spreading the word and letting more people to get acquainted with iStudiez Pro, to Apple team for being so fast to approve all our updates and for featuring our app in their campaigns and advertising, to all the users who send us their feedback, ideas and suggestions leading us to better understanding of your needs and wishes….

As our Christmas gift to you we are now giving away 20 promo codes for iOS and 20 for Mac version until Wednesday, 28th.
The condition to participate is simple: write your Christmas wishes as comments to this post and we will randomly select those who will receive promo codes.

May all your wishes come true! Have fun and stay tuned!

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iStudiez Pro updates submitted both iOS and Mac versions

We decided to release a quick update before holidays and hope that it’ll be approved by Apple before the whole team goes on holidays.

Most importantly, the updates include A&B and alternate days schedule shift after holidays, fixes of random syncing issues, customization of date for assignment notifications and some more improvements of general performance of the app.

Also, for iOS version the School Bell notification sound is added 🙂

Update: both versions are available on the App Store as of Dec 20, 2011.
NOTE: you need to update both iOS and Mac versions in order to get Cloud Sync work properly.

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Nominate iStudiez Pro as Best Information Organization App and Best College Student App!

We are sure you will support us this year as well. We are growing bigger as hundreds of users join you guys using iStudiez Pro all over the world!

So if you use iStudiez Pro every day and if you think this is the app that saves you lots of headache organizing your college days and puts in order tons of information you need to manage, you will definitely support our nominations 🙂

Remember each vote is precious to us, so take a minute and vote now!

Nominate iStudiez Pro for Best College Student App

Nominate iStudiez Pro for Best Information Organization App

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Notifications and Badge in iStudiez Pro – common questions

After most of you updated to iOS 5, we have received quite a number of letters with complaints that notifications and/or badge in iStudiez Pro were no longer working. Most likely you just need to double-check your settings. Here is what you need to do if you do not see your notifications anymore:

  1. Double-check the settings in iStudiez Pro.
    • Go to Today > Info page > Settings > Notifications and make sure this option is turned ON
    • Go to Today > Info page > Settings > App Icon Badge and turn it ON
  2. Open Settings application on your device (please do not confuse with settings within iStudiez Pro) > go to Notifications > iStudiez Pro > Turn ON Badge Icon and Notifications
  3. Re-launch iStudiez Pro

iStudiez Pro Settings


iOS Settings


If in both places you have it turned ON and you still have a problem, please write to our support mail, we will do our best to help you.

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iStudiez Pro version 1.5.5 is available in the App Store

The update includes long craved-for iOS 5 compatibility, and we are glad that we finally are able to satisfy your requests. We hope that everything works, but in case there are some lacks in compatibility, we will address them all gradually. So, in details:

Added:

  • iOS 5 compatibility
  • Overnight events to be shown in Week View

Fixed:

  • Problem when current events disappeared from Today view on iPad
  • Italian localization corrected

Enjoy!

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iStudiez Pro for Mac version 1.0.5 available in the Mac App Store

First we would like to apologize before those of you who experienced problems with sync in previous version of the app. Here is what we’ve done to address existing issues:

  • Fixed “Sync from Mac” behavior
  • Added Sync to Server command allowing to force sync to the server all the data available in iStudiez Pro for Mac
  • Fixed problem when the app loses data after quitting
  • Fixed GPA calculation based on Percent Grading Scale

IMPORTANT: those users who lost the app data on their iOS devices after updating to version 1.0.4, but still have the data on their Macs will need to use new command Sync to Server. Here is what you need to do:

  1. From the iStudiez Pro menu bar, choose Data
  2. While in Data menu, press and hold Option button on your keyboard
  3. You will see the command Sync To Server appearing in Data menu, click it

This will force sync all the data currently existing on your Mac to the server. After you sync on your iOS devices, you will be able to see all data back there.
ALSO NOTE: this solution will only help those who did not create any new Cloud Sync accounts in iStudiez Pro and who are currently using iStudiez Pro for Mac where all the data is present.

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iStudiez Pro for Mac update 1.0.4 submitted for approval

Since the release of version 1.0.3 we received numerous letters from you. Most were all about optimization of the app for Lion, but there were also some other issues that needed our attention. So we analyzed your feedback and worked to implement most claimed options and fix most common crashes.

The update 1.0.4 is already submitted for approval, now waiting Apple’s feedback.

What’s new:

  • Enhanced for OS X Lion: full screen support, basic restore (app will open where you left it)
  • Week view now supports overnight events as well as events that start before 4 a.m.
  • Data is saved to disk automatically when any change is made in the app
  • Added alert message to prevent occasional delete of courses and semesters

Fixed and improved:

  • Fixed synchronization of cancelled classes and exams
  • Fixed swapped actions for “Cancel Classes” and “Keep Cancelled” buttons
  • Fixed problem causing exams to be duplicated on several days in Overview
  • Fixed day change refresh
  • Fixed improper ordering of courses in Planner
  • Fixed bug preventing input of decimal credits
  • Improved drag & drop of classes in Planner
  • Improved assignments list layout
  • Minor improvements in localizations

 

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iStudiez Pro compatibility with iOS 5

We decided to post this as there are lots of complaints about the fact that iStudiez Pro does not work correctly on iOS 5.

In fact, we have already fixed most of the issues related to iOS 5 compatibility.
But the thing is that there is lots of code in iStudiez Pro that was developed by us from scratch (existing application programming interface did not provide generic methods for our purposes) in order to deliver unique user experience to you.
Some things that were developed that time by us now became common in iOS 5, but it means that previous solutions stopped working.

So now when we included new solutions based on iOS 5 they were considered as conflicting with Developer Agreement and the update that we tried submitting was rejected.

Until iOS 5 is released (at least as GM), we will not be able to re-submit the update with iOS 5 compatibility. As soon as iOS 5 is officially out, we will submit the update immediately.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

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Announcing terrific tool for teachers: iTeacherBook

We have just submitted the new app, this time exclusively for teachers, professors, coaches and all of faculty members in general.

iTeacherBook is a sister app for iStudiez Pro and was developed for iPhone/iPod Touch as a response for multiple requests from teachers who already tried and enjoyed iStudiez Pro.

iTeacherBook not only allows planning a teacher’s schedule and tasks, but also gives an option of tracking attendance of all students, send assignments by email right from the app as well as mark and observe the progress of students for every course and class they attend (grades option).

The app makes it possible to track schedule and progress of students both in real-time mode and post factum in the form of reports in .csv format.

We are proud to announce it here for the first time and hope you guys will help us spread the news among your teachers 😉

You are more than welcome to learn more details here: iteacherbook.com

P.S. The app is now in review and will be available in the App Store as soon as it is approved by Apple.

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