In honor of the 42nd anniversary of the Moon landing, half of all proceeds from the sale of Distant Suns today and tomorrow will go to help the SETI Institute continued search for extraterrestrial life. The institute, located in Mountain View, California, currently has a fundraising drive to help keep their telescope array operating through the rest of the year. The Allen Telescope Array was initially funded in part by Paul Allen, Microsoft’s...

A few minutes ago, Distant Suns 2.3.0 was just released for sale. This contains most of the new UI goodness that the new DS 3.2.1 has, new What’s Up, etc. Enjoy!

Distant Suns 3.2.1 was pushed out yesterday with the iOS 3.x fix, and a fix more or less for the Twilight Planner on the iPad 2. A number of small cosmetic changes have also been made. So you iOS 3 guys and gals should be back into the game. And as always, if you like the app, show it around.

Oh the horrors! From time to time I receive an email from someone saying that for this reason or that reason they have to give up their iPhone for Andriod, Palm, (blackberry), Symbian (??) and will really miss Distant Suns, cuz it doesn’t work on Android, Palm. (blackberrt) or Symbian (??) There are easy ways around that. Even though your iPhone won’t be able to make any more calls, doesn’t mean you can’t use as a glorified iPod/Touch. And you...

If all goes well, Distant Suns will be available for the iPad the day of launch, this coming Saturday. I received the official blessing from Apple yesterday. There is one last hurdle to go through, but I don’t expect any problems. This will be the sixth platform Distant Suns has been on. Click on each picture to get a better view.