It was back in August when we decided to participate and further promote iStudiez Pro during the annual most popular event among all Apple products fans.

At first we hesitated as soon as we don’t really have experience in featuring apps on international expos, but we were inspired by your support and desire to present the app further to the world, especially to those unlucky ones who somehow happen to be still using paper planners 🙂

So we booked a booth in the The Mobile Apps Showcase area and now we are glad to welcome everyone to support us and visit booth 818 – 12 on 27-29 of January, 2011 in San Francisco.

We will reveal some good news for those of you who are planning to attend, so keep an eye on this section of our blog to be the first to know!

Quote from Macworld 2011 official website:

The Mobile Apps Showcase, highlighting the latest innovations from iPad, iPhone and iPod touch developers, debuted at Macworld 2010 and was one of the most popular areas on the expo floor.

It is really our pleasure to finally make an official announcement of iStudiez Pro for Mac.

We know that unofficially we’ve been keeping you all dangling, but this was because we wanted to make sure that we will eventually deliver unique and integral application. iStudiez Pro for Mac will not only be oriented to support mobile versions of the app, but will serve as totally independent and self-reliable software.

Price, features and other details will be announced later.

First of all let us reply to those of you who are impatiently waiting for sync between iPad and iPhone versions of iStudiez Pro: we already implemented it, but it is NOT included in this update, because we need some time to test it now. So sync will come and it will come very soon.

Version 1.4.4 is mostly about iPad version. iOS update from Apple is coming in November and we will be prepared with general iOS 4.2 compatibility, including support of multitasking and possibility to view Calendar events in iStudiez Pro.

We also missed Week View for iPad version of the app, so we developed it for this update as well, hope you’ll enjoy 🙂

And, something that we should have done long ago – iStudiez Pro will now support shift of schedule after holidays (for A&B weeks and rotating schedules) for iPhone/iPod/iPad.

A few words of general betterments:

• Stability improved
• Minor bugs fixed
• Localizations fixed: Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese Traditional
• Localizations added: British, Catalan (total number of localizations of the app being 29 now! Thanks to all of you who are helping so much with translation and corrections!)
• Fixed occasional bug with dates in October

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

Yes, it is grades and GPA and we are glad we can finally officially announce that this option will be available in iStudiez Pro once version 1.3. is approved by Apple.

Foreseeing your questions we would like to highlight the following:

• Grades option is based on assignments (support of weighted/non-weighted assignments)
• GPA calculator is available for current and past semesters
• Grades option supports grade scales most used worldwide (letter grades, percents, points)

Grades option has even more of tasty things for you to try, just wait for it to come 😉

We have also improved iPad version stability as well as fixed bug causing crash on calendar and  made corrections in localizations (Korean in particular).

During the weekend we’ll complete the user guide with detailed explanation of how grades option works and how it can be adjusted to the education system in your school, college or university.

P.S. We have also update iStudiez Lite with grades option, so those of you who waited for grades option to purchase the app, can try It with lite version first.

We really did not expect it to appear so quickly, it’s been several days only since we’ve submitted.

Our most heartfelt thanks to Apple!

Of course, you’ll be able to lay your hands on iPad version later, for very obvious reasons.

But we really hope that in the meanwhile it will be a pleasure for you to explore novelties in the update of the app for iPhone/iPod Touch.

Go for it 🙂

P.S. We’ve received huge of requests to reveal screenshots for the iPad version.

So you got us. Here is the screenshot from the iPad version, enjoy 🙂

There was no other way to make iStudiez Pro good for iPad other than completely change the interface. So we did it. Moreover, we dare say we like how we did it. Hopefully Apple agrees and you’ll be able to enjoy it since April 3rd 🙂

Now, read and rock: for all of you guys who have already bought iStudiez Pro for iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad version goes for free!

Additional bonuses pack for version 1.2 includes:
• Palette range to mark your courses is expanded with 5 additional colors
• Current semester now shown on top when creating an assignment
• Option to manage assignments inside each course is added
• Option to customize texts on Today screen added
• Option to save your preferences within your data backup
• Option to customize default due time push time for assignments
• Option to alter multiple dots in the Calendar with one single dot
• Loading data backup improved
• Some new icons added

We also fixed:
• Crash while turning off notification for assignment
• Bug when scrolling the list of assignments
• Crash while importing data from Exchange Server

Now, where are grades? That’s what we are sure you’ll ask once you launch the app.
But let us tell you that grades are coming immediately after our beta testers and translators give us green light.

So sleep well and dream of version 1.2. to play with on iPad 😉

To make it easier for those of you who are not in favor of quick decisions, we’ve created iStudiez Lite version. It is intended to satisfy a want of those who feel it important to get acquainted with the app for FREE before buying it.

iStudiez Lite limits you to managing:
1 semester
3 courses
5 classes per course
7 assignments
5 instructors
2 holiday periods

NOTE: Push notifications and backup options are not included in iStudiez Lite.

Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the app and (of course!) found it absolutely indispensable to survive your academic epoch, you can upgrade to iStudiez Pro with all your data safely transferred to the pro version from the lite one.

Now, all’s fine, the app’s on App Store, the long craved for push notifications feature working perfectly, no more absurd accuses of ‘piracy’ that some of you experienced with 1.1.1 (once again, sorry for that!)

As we can judge by our server dynamics, you guys really needed that push option, so enjoy! And, as always we are open to your sugestions and feedback re the functions of iStudiez Pro. BTW, we’ve already listed some new things to implement in the future updates.  Stay tuned. 😉

As promised (this time no delays and excuses) yesterday we have finally submitted iStudiez Pro version 1.1 for Apple’s approval. Let’s hope that won’t take long.