Well, we posted about an new app we were developing and as it is coming to the end of development I’ve decided to share a few more details. As I said previously it is a music app. Obviously there are many apps in the store that allow you to play an instrument or make a song, but our is different as it is designed with non-musicians in mind. The main screen shows a bass guitar and electric guitar. Pressing down on a fret play a riff (part of a song) that lasts a few seconds. Each fret plays a different riff. Because both instruments are at opposite sides of the screen you can play bass and guitar and the same time, mixing together different parts to form your song. What about drums though? Well, to start the drum beat just shake your device. This will start the beat and you can start playing along with it.

As everyone doesn’t like the same style of music there is a choice of four genres available. These are:

1. Funk
2. Acoustic
3. Rock
4. Dance

In the settings you can also control the volumes of the individual instruments allowing for more versatility when playing. The app will  sell for $1.99/£1.19 and we should be submitting it to Apple this week. If all goes well we hope to have it on sale by the end of this month.

Some of the graphics still aren’t finalized but as soon as they are I will post a few screenshots and a video.

Dog chaser went live in the app store early this morning. It costs $0.99/£0.59 and you can get it here: http://bit.ly/Dou1o

I just wanted to let you know about a new app that we are working on. It is still in the early stages of development so I can’t give too much away but so far it is looking pretty cool. Basically, it is a music app that allows users to create songs on. OK so that doesn’t sound too exciting, let’s face it, there are many apps that already do this. But we are aiming our product at a specific type of individual and for them we think it will be much better than the alternatives. It will incorporate guitar, bass and drums, and we are thinking of adding synth to it as well. When we get into Beta stages of development we will post more along with some screenshots.

I should also mention that we are continuing to improve our other apps. Most notably we are working on the next release of F1 Mobile. This will fix bugs and include a few new features. We are also working on F1 Mobile 2.5 which will include Driver/Team info as well as other user requested features. I will post more on that closer to release.

This is just a quick post on a new app we have coming out this week (hopefully). It is called Dog Chaser and does as its’ name suggests. The app emits a high frequency noise which annoys dogs. This should be enough to get most dogs to go away. You can choose between four frequency settings (as different dogs will react differently to different frequencies) and when you tap ‘chase’ a 5 second burst of the sound will be played.

It is impossible to ensure that Dog Chaser works on all dogs but it useful to have for when a stray dog is following you in the street.  We will let you know when it is available.

We will be releasing a minor update to Pro Baseball Mobile very soon. It will include a new icon, big fixes and some other minor improvements.

F1 Mobile 2.1 was released early this morning and it fixes all the bugs that appeared with 2.0. Most notably the navigation bar at the top of the screen no longer obscures the most recent news item. So far the feedback has been good and people have been changing their reviews to reflect the fixes. We are very grateful for this. If there are any problems with 2.1 (although we thouroughly tested it and didn’t find any ourselves) let us know.

We have discovered a big issue with v2.0 of F1 Mobile. When we first sumbitted the app to Apple we immediately began working on a new version. Apple then found issues so we quickly fixed them a reuploaded the app. Unfortunately in our haste we uploaded the development version. Although there are no major problems with it we would like to apologize and inform you that we will have to problem fixed ASAP. Version 2.0 does have benefits though. Race results are now enabled. You can customize the tab bar and more. However here are some issues and workarounds to help in the meantime:

• When you tap google map you are asked if you wish to continue. When you tap ‘yes’ nothing happens. Tap ‘no’ to launch maps. (Basically the buttons are the wrong way round)
• Several icons are the same (this is just a visual problem)
• There are design inconsistencies
• Some sections do not have the correct headings on the navigation bar
• The info button in preferences cannot be tapped and the update preferences button is slightly obscured (but still tappable)

Again we sincerely apologize for this and will have it fixed soon.