If you are experiencing any problems with Distant Suns 3.2 after upgrading, particularly if it is unable to launch properly, this could be a corrupted download from the Appstore that can hit any app. Delete Distant Suns 3.2 from your device and try reinstalling directly from the Appstore and see if that takes care of things. And no, you will not have to purchase it again. And if it still has problems, contact me and we’ll try and sort things...

I am pleased to announce that Distant Suns 3.2.0 has just been released. I had a bitch’n new icon too, but the Appstore ate it. Oh well. Due to the number of changes and tweaks I am sure I likely missed something, so I appreciate the feedback.

The story with that is there seems to be a bug in the iPad 2 camera support which totally screws up the screen when orientation is changed. Apple wants a working demo to show them and that would take a day or so to get running. An extra day I didn’t have, so for 3.2.0 I opted to just suspend that feature until Apple (or I if it is pilot error) can track it down. Works fine on the iPhone/iPod but not on the iPad. Sigh.

Distant Suns 2 is free for April 12, ending about 10PM Pacific time, 5AM UTC. And not to be outdone, Distant Suns 3 is 1/2 off. Spread the joy!

From time to time Distant Suns will alert you to upcoming events, such as eclipses or meteor showers. Some kind users were upset at getting these messages in the middle of the night and asked that I turn them off. These are called “Apple Push Notifications” and are not email based as some have thought. APNs were a major part of the iOS 3 upgrade and are widely used to alert users of things of interest. Every app that wants to use APN will ask...

The first total lunar eclipse in nearly two years happens tomorrow UTC, or late tonight in the most favorable location of the US West Coast, but all of the US and Central America. Europe will see the beginning, with totality right around moonset. Could make some beautiful photos with local landscapes in the foreground. A lot of news outlets are making a big deal that this is the lunar eclipse on the Winter solstice in about 4 bazillion years....