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iPad version HINT – colors in calendar

Small, but nice surprise for those who miss colored dots in calendar from iPhone/iPod version of iStudiez Pro.

Simply tap any date on the calendar and a baloon will pop up showing your schedule for that particular day in color. Try moving your finger across the calendar for expanded info on other dates.

Enjoy! :)

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Page Flip for iStudiez Pro – version 1.4.3 released

Just a quick note as we are totally into work now:

Added in iPad version
• Page flip
• Balloons on calendar with expanded schedule information

Fixed:
• Sample data notifications
• iCal multiple day events showing in iStudiez Pro (iOS 4)
• Crash while adding/cancelling holidays
• Corrections made to the German localization

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Back-to-school hot season

Apple supports students by recommending iStudiez Pro among most useful apps during the busy back-to-school days. Back to School Apps promo takes you from the landing page of the App Store to the specially allocated section where featured apps are arranged into several sub-categories among which are Fill Your Backpack, Make Science Fun, Higher Education and more.

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iStudiez Pro at 50% discount on volume purchases

Not so long ago Apple introduced a special program for developers that we view as an intention to let both developers of respective apps and educational institutions benefit from 50% discount on volume purchases.

Once we’ve been notified about this option by Apple, we pondered it’s pretty nice idea and decided to take part in this initiative. So now, as soon as there’s a need for an educational establishment to buy more than 20 copies of iStudiez Pro at once, they can enjoy special purchase conditions.

Everyone who’s interested is welcome to learn more from the official FAQ or go directly and redeem their Volume Vouchers here.

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Version 1.4.2 submitted to the App Store

This is a minor update that only includes fixes of most annoying bugs that you complained about. So we fixed:

  • Ghost notifications
  • Crash while importing instructors from Contacts
  • Crash while viewing/tapping holidays in Calendar
  • Bug with delayed refresh of App Icon Badge

We’ll of course include some interesting new options in our next updates, we listed all the requests that you have sent to us so far in the order of preference and will do our best to introduce the most crucial and attractive first.

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iStudiez Pro featured in iPad – the Creative Pro’s Guide magazine

“The features and tutorials you’ll discover in the issue will equip you with the skills to go out and start pushing your content onto the 3 million iPad users ready and waiting to be entertained, challenged, aided or informed by your brilliant app idea.”

We were asked to share our experience in creating user-friendly interface for iStudiez Pro (iPad version) by Computer Arts publishing company. Some of our thoughts and tips were put into the iPad – the creative pro’s guide printed magazine.

We’ve seen the content and we must say it is really professional work and can be really helpful for those who only start developing apps for iPad, but we cannot disclose any sneak pics here according to the agreement with the publisher. However, we can at least publish the magazine cover here.

Thanks for Computer Arts efforts and true interest in our small input.

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iStudiez Pro recommended by FOX Business

Recently FoxBusiness.com which is the official Web site for the FOX Business Network, posted a nice review where they describe and recommend TOP 10 apps for college students, and iStudiez Pro is one of the apps being reviewed.

Nice news and thanks to Fox Business team, we enjoyed the nice slideshow :)

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A Time Zone bug

Version 1.4. is out to the App Store and we’ve received several complaints about the weird bug that appears when setting the time for classes: instead of AM the app’s showing PM time or time shifts all the time depending on your location.

We’ve taken a close look to the issue and it appeared that in iOS 4 the time zone support is not working the same way it used to in iOS 3.1.2. It is not what you call a nice surprise, but we can deal with it.

Now, if you are among those who experience this problem please do the following: go to Settings App > General > Date and Time and make sure that Set Automatically is ON.

We assume doing this way will fix the issue.

Meanwhile we’are submiting a quick fix to the App Store.
ALSO, the fix will solve the problem for those who use iPhone 3G and experience crashes after the update. Crashes are caused by local push notifications option which eats more memory (but save your traffic actually).

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iOS 4 compatibility update submitted for approval

To cut it short, we made iStudiez Pro compatible with iOS4. Which does not mean that if you are not updated to iOS 4 the app will not work on your device. Of course, it will. So just a few words about the details.

iOS 4 compatibility:

  • Retina display. This was quite an effort, we should say, especially taking into account that Michael had to re-draw ALL of the art of the app in order to make it look sexy with Retina display. So basically all icons, buttons, textures, everything you see was resized (we wonder whether we’ll survive when Retina display comes to iPad, but that’s another story…)
  • Multitasking support comes with something that many of you asked for a long time, iStudiez Pro now opens where you left it, on the last viewed screen. Wasn’t that hard, really…
  • Integration with Calendar app on iPhone (turned on by default, but can be turned off via internal settings in the app). From now on you will be able to manage (add, edit, delete etc) in iStudiez Pro all events that are entered in the Calendar app. As soon as Apple allows it now, we are happy to present this option to you in this update.
  • And you no longer need to always stay connected to the Internet to be notified of your upcoming classes and pending assignments. Local push notifications are available in iStudiez Pro for those who use iOS 4.

We’ve also made some improvements which are universal for iPhone/iPod and iPad versions of the app. When you’ll be making a backup of your data, all the cancelled classes and notes will be saved, no more lost. ..oh yes, and exams will now show up during your holidays period :)

We also fixed grades calculation, updated some localizations (Dutch, Italian and Russian) and improved general stability and performance of iStudiez Pro.

P.S. To answer before you ask: yes, we are still working on desktop version ;)

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Apple recommends iStudiez Pro for students!

Another great news to share is that iStudiez Pro now being officially recommended by Apple on the Apps For iPhone page. Just choose Apps For Students section and you’ll see iStudiez Pro description with the Make your grade slogan.

Must say, we are really pleased with being recommended by Apple, especially with the nice description that they’ve posted below the screenshot:
“The award-winning iStudiez Pro lets you manage every type of school schedule, keep track of all your assignments, and stay on course for the next big exam. And you’ll always make it to class on time with multiple alarms and push notifications that display on your iPhone no matter what app you’re using.”

That what makes you feel there’s always space to do more…
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” – remember? ;)

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