What If 1.1 - Coming Soon

Its been a little busy around here. Working on improvements to PaintSwatches, working on improvements to What If, working on some new ideas, etc.... The culmination of all that work is that What If 1.1 has been sent to Apple yesterday morning. Its chock full of improvements, a custom key pad, a how to section with slides illustrating usage, and the ability to aggregate positions.

We also have some new improvements in the works, a much better price slider and a graph of price points for quick reference. Very exciting stuff.

We'll drop a post when the approval goes through.

PaintSwatches 1.1 -- It's out there

PaintSwatches 1.1 was released into the App Store yesterday. Unfortunately it took more than 16 hours for Apple to put it out once it was approved so we started on the bottom of the utilities page. It would have been nice to hang on the front of Utilities for a while so we'd get some exposure, but we have no control over that. I checked out the ColorSnap application (the Sherwin-Williams one) and noticed a very interesting thing. In reading the comments it seems like many people are after organization of their paint colors -- exactly what PaintSwatches does. If only there was a way to reach out to those people directly.... Anyways, for those of you who have downloaded PaintSwatches -- thanks and enjoy.

What If and DFUs

Well we got our first review from What If. The user (Ac1030) lambasted the app, not because it was bad or crashed, but because the user didn't understand how to use an iPhone. The user complained that you couldn't delete data. I don't want to harp on the person that wrote the review. But I wish that they had viewed the demo or at least contacted support for clarification. Anyone else who contacted us would know that we respond within hours, sometimes within minutes. A quick check would have explained to the user "swipe to delete". My feeling on bad reviews is if we deserve it fine, but if person is in the wrong they shouldn't be able to lambast you without at least a chance to retort. I think Apple needs to rework the system to allow the developer at least a chance to respond so that you don't lose sales because of one erroneous user.

PaintSwatches 1.1

An update to PaintSwatches has been submitted to the iTunes store. The update fixes a couple of issues:

• Notes are being saved properly
• A crash when selecting colors has been fixed

There is also a new feature we call "Snap Back" where when you select a color for a room and then go to select another color it takes you back to where you just where (including any search).

We were hoping to get a couple more color lines represented in this release, but we needed to get the bug fixes out. In the next version we plan to have at least two color lines added.

Announcing What If

We are pleased to announce the availability of our newest iPhone Application, What If. What If allows you to see how price changes can affect your stocks. Using a slider to move prices up and down you can see the gain or loss on a stock position.

You can find What If here.

Up on Youtube

After a lot (I mean a lot) of takes, we have a demo up on YouTube. If anyone is interested the demo was done on a Mac (well, duh!) using Screenflick; which is a really simple to use, inexpensive and works really well.

You can find our video here.

This Old House

PaintSwatches was featured in a blog posting from This Old House. We're very excited indeed.

So it begins...

Hello and welcome to our kick off post. If you haven't been to our website, check it out.

As of right now we have one app that has been approved and is on the iPhone App Store called PaintSwatches. It's our paint organization and management tool. We think it is really cool. You can arrange your colors by room, play with them in all sorts of different ways, e-mail them, etc... Very useful for designers, realtors and DIYers.

We have support for a number of paint manufacturers, mostly in the US, although requests have been made to support European colors, which we're looking into.

We'll have tips and tricks to follow along with details about our waiting to be approved second app.