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We submitted new version of Art to Apple a week ago.

Changes in the update:

* Added modern artists: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Mark Rothko, Joan Miro, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keefe, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Roul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Edouard Vuillard, Edvard Munch, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero

* Total number of artists in the database – 204

* Updated user interface

* Fixed crash on start bug. It asks you if you want to resume viewing last opened picture.

* Open wikipedia and other websites with additional information about artists in a built-in browser

* Save images from external websites to your galleries – now you can add unlimited number of paintings to your favorite artists, all you need is to find and open the images in our built-in browser and tap “Save”.

* Openfeint integration: global and local history of quiz scores with leaderboards. Achievements allow you track your progress in learning art. Challenges allow you play with other people, find new friends. Chat room for art fans. Post your achievements on facebook and twitter.

* Added missing biographies for all artists

* Extended parental control – option to see adult pictures only

* minor bug fixes

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World Countries is World Geography for Your iPhone – a fresh review on the app by Sarah Parker.

http://www.theiphoneappreview.com/10/world-countries-iphone-app/

Meet higher resolution maps and some interface improvements.

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itunes link for WC – http://appsto.re/worldcountries

As many of you requested, we have improved quality of regional maps and submitted 2.1 update.

World Countries Lite approved and on sale – http://bit.ly/HdCmA .
And we have our first review on the update – “Amazing update. Improved like 300% after update”

Hope to see the full version to be approved soon…

Michelle Schusterman published a review on Art application on The iPhone App Review site .

“Rarely are apps both smart and beautiful, not to mention useful. But Art, an app as simple and classy as its name, has all of these qualities and more.”

read the full article

Thank you, Michelle!

We have been reviewed by Melissa S. from AppsShouter.

Read the full review called REVIEW- “USA Factbook Free Is All You Need”

Thank you Melissa!

Good news today, we have our first music application approved. It took us one month to get through, but now we open a new line of educational applications devoted to classic and modern music.

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Bach is a continuation of Greatest Composers application, which was rejected and we still hope to release it someway in the future.

Unlike Greatest Composers Bach has all music files inside the application, so that there is no need to download tracks to listen to them.
That means the application is quite large – 191mb, but you need to download it only once and you will get 45 tracks of great classic music.

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We have been working for 2 months on a new version of World Countries. This update is not just an improvement, it’s a complete redesign and almost fully redeveloped new application. That’s why we assigned it version 2.0. What we have done:
1. Complete update of the content. New CIA Factbook and updated wikipedia articles. We added definitions and ratings from CIA Factbook
2. Completely new design. New icon, new home screen and layout for info
3. Split factbook info into smaller categories.
4. Added History and bookmarking features
5. Added full screen flags with flag descriptoins
6. Updated Quiz with animations and graphic buttons
7. Added two flag games – memory match and flag guess

The update is on review at the moment. As it’s there for more that a week, we expect it to be released any time soon.

Our plans for next versions include:
* more country specific content from wikipedia
* more maps (continents and regions)
* photos from countries
* anthems
and some other features.

Please send us your feature requests and feedback to support @ ads-sg.com

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We have made a big leap in our 4.0 version of Art by extending the image library from 400 to 5000. That was not an easy transition. Many users experienced discomfort about our new design and most of all about the need to download images or view them only when you are online.

We reacted promptly and came out with new design and ability to download all images in bulk. We also added German, French and Spanish languages and almost done with Russian. We have also greatly improved our Quiz game so that it looks more like a game with animation, timing and scores.

Unfortunately Art is consuming a lot of memory and that causes the app to crash sporadically. We are working on that issue and will make it stable with our next updates.

Planned for this week’s update (4.3): stability (crash) fix, Russian localization, minor interface fixes.
For upcoming update on the next week (4.4) we plan to add 30 more artists and slideshow feature.