Now it can be told. We here at Distant Suns World Headquarters for Intergalactic Mischief can now proudly announce the release of Distant Suns for both the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and the NOOK Tablet, as well as Amazon’s Kindle Fire. It has many of the  fine features of Distant Suns for iOS, such as: Displays the evening’s sky with over 130,000 stars Change the date and time to show the sky of the past or future, like having a...

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...

In 1987, Steve Jobs introduced to the world the wonderful and somewhat puzzling NeXT “Cube.” It was designed as the computer for the college student who could also afford a $6000 machine with no floppy drive.  For all of the ridicule and head scratching the machine provoked, it pioneered a number of great technologies. Perhaps the most well known of these powers every Mac and iPhone now being made today: OS-X. One of the other less successful...

It’s no secret that the iPhone has become a phenomenally successful development target among both seasoned professional engineers, and midnight hobbyist fanboys alike. Some of the most interesting and innovative mobile apps are delivered regularly, courtesy of the Appstore, and are just as likely to be developed by one guy after work with a six-pack of Mountain Dew as a large and well-financed software studio. As a result, ever since that...

It has now been just a little over a 20 months since Apple changed the industry, (yet again), by releasing the iPhone SDK. Had anyone back then predicted that less than two years later, less than two circuits around an average yellow star in the outer arm of the galaxy, the Appstore would be bulging under the weight of over 100,000 applications, they would have been carried away, hidden and fed raw cabbage for about 12 years. But here we are. I...