If you have a smartphone, Samsung Galaxy SIII, the HTC  Desire, etc. and have purchased Distant Suns from the Amazon app store note, that it has only been tested and certified on the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK. The reason being that it was a lot cheaper to target just two devices, then hundreds. When submitted to the Kindle appstore, I was allowed specify that it was only for tablets. Apparently the store ignores that. So if...

For those who have just received or are expecting their little bundles of iPad 3 joy, Distant Suns 3 works very well on it except for one toolbar button that is the wrong size, and some text on the Whats Up? that needs a little bit of tweaking. Those fixes should be sent to Apple in the next couple of days. Other than those, it looks really great, hard now to even go back and look at the ‘2.

A few folks have reported problems with the new event feature. Turns out, if there are no events in your area it goes bye-bye. Should be fixed and uploaded tomorrow, but will take another few days to get approved by Apple.

Nothing major in this one, just some missing artwork and another couple of small tweaks. As always, if you have any issues that snuck (sneaked?) by the betatest barrier, send me a note.

Distant Suns and Grand Tour before it have made use of “cloud servers” over the past many years to layer current weather patterns on the model of the earth. Unfortunately, the cloud service is no longer providing imagery for free, as only paid subscribers may obtain the imagery. For the time being this will be switched off in in the various products that make use of it until I can determine if there’s a way to support the new subscription based...