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I have been asked on several occasions about the image quality setting in Image Preferences, and what effects it will have. To make things a bit clearer I have implemented a feature in V2.1 that compares the effect of saving DSS images at less than 100% quality. The results are quite revealing, even for me.
For AstroPlanner V2.1, constellations become full citizens in the object list. This enables some interesting features.
I have been working on a couple more V2.1 features, described briefly here. These are features to search for plan documents on disk, improve the Plan Creation Wizard, and support upcoming catalogues.
Hopefully this will help assuage the fears of some folk who think I’m working full-time on iOS apps.
Well, it’s done. AstroAid is now available in the App Store for the princely sum of $0.99 (of which I will see about $0.69 a download).
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/astroaid/id541448395?ls=1&mt=8
Feel free to support the further improvement of this and other apps by downloading it. Or not.
After a day of rampant manual deforestation of the upper reaches of my skull, I have finally managed to get AstroAid uploaded to the Apple App Store, where it is now “Waiting for review”. Huzzah! Hopefully I won’t have to wait long to find out how I screwed up, and what I have to do to be loved by the reviewers. Seeing this is my first App Store app, I’m fully expecting them to be unhappy about many things. But the app is fairly straightforward and doesn’t make use of any fancy features, so mebbe I’ll get lucky.
I was trying two apps that are roughly equivalent to AstroAid, and one of them plain does not work. How that managed to get into the store is beyond me. The other one is full of typos (I can only imagine that the author is not a native English-speaker).
Fingers crossed.