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We’re pleased to announce the release of Infusion Lite for iPhone and iPod Touch. Infusion Lite is available free on the App Store and includes many features from the full version of Infusion:

• Multitasking Support
• Beautiful UI
• Single-Touch Timer
• Swipeable Timer
• Customizable Behavior
• 25 Teas Built-In

Infusion Lite is ad-supported, meaning discreet advertisements will display at the top of the app. This allows us to provide a quality tea timer for iPhone and iPod Touch for free while supporting development of the next version of Infusion.

Infusion (Full Version) Adds:

• Over 100 Built-In Teas!
• Edit Built-In Teas
• Add New Teas
• No Advertisements!
• Generic Timer

Please enjoy!

Download Infusion Lite. Buy Infusion – $1.99

Water-Powered Ideas is pleased to bring high-resolution artwork for iPhone 4 and a new timer look to Infusion with the release of version 2.1.1.

Changes Include

• iPhone 4 improvements including high-resolution artwork.
• New digital timer look.
• Fixed tea name positioning bug.
• Fixed saving of 0 value timer.

Infusion is available in the United States and Canada for $1.99 USD/CAD exclusively on the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

Water-Powered Ideas is pleased to bring enhancements for iOS4 and the iPhone 4 to Infusion with the release of version 2.1 while still supporting every iPhone OS 3 device including the original iPhone.

Multitasking support: Infusion now supports iOS 4’s multitasking on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and 3rd generation iPod Touch. Timers will continue to run in the background and you will be notified when they finish. Infusion’s icon will also reflect the number of timers currently running.

• Fixed bug that would cause the wrong tea to be selected when searching.
• Changed tea scrolling behavior; while a timer is running scrolling will no longer automatically pop it out of view.

Infusion is available in the United States and Canada for $1.99 USD/CAD exclusively on the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

Observation 2.0 is well on its way with a bunch of new features and full iPad support. In the meantime I’ve decided to drop the price of Observation 1.7 to $3.99.  That’s 20% off. The price will return to $4.99 when Observation 2.0 is released.

Observation 2.0 will be a free upgrade for all Observation 1.x users.

Infusion 2.0.1 has been submitted to Apple for approval. This version fixes a number of small issues that have cropped up with Infusion 2.0. The user-facing issues fixed include:

• Dropping of initial character in text inputs.
• Tea title width after editing the title.

There are also a few other behind-the-scenes fixes. 

Going forward one of the major features I’d like to add is support for multiple infusions. Green teas and some Oolongs can be infused multiple times, but some want different times for each infusion.

Additionally I would like to include more information about each individual tea. The app has a large collection of teas but no tasting notes or general information on what the tea is like, where it comes from, and/or its history. I want to make Infusion about exploring tea as much as drinking it. That’s coming too at some point. This might work better on the iPad support, where you have the screen real estate to read about a tea while waiting on the timer.

After a quick pause to get Infusion 2 completed, I’m back to work on Observation 2.0. The new version will include a complete overhaul of the app along with a lot of new features. Some of these will include:

• Pre-defined Equipment & other Star Party features
• Moon phases in Conditions
• iPad support
• Mac syncing support
• Favorite locations, favorite equipment, and even more favorites!
• More…

Along with an overhaul of the UI. Should be exciting!

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We’re pleased to announce the release of Infusion 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Infusion is an elegant tea timer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It was specifically designed so that tea lovers can begin brewing their favorite tea with two touches: one to launch Infusion, and the other to select a favorite tea.

Version 2 introduces a unique new user interface for teas, timers, and editing tea information.

Features

• Beautiful New UI: Infusion 2 features beautiful new tea information, tea timers, and animations to make timing a tea as enjoyable as drinking it.
• Single-Touch Timer: Forget to start Infusion before you put the hot water in the tea pot? No problem! You can start one of your favorite tea timers with a single touch after launching Infusion, two touches total from the Home screen!
• Swipeable Timer: Swipe down on a tea’s screen to show and start the timer and turn the tea info into handy instructions.
• Customizable Behavior: Want your favorite teas to open on launch? Want to search teas on launch? Want your favorite teas to immediately start a timer? Want them to go to tea info? You can change all of this behavior with Infusion.
• Over 100 Teas! Infusion ships with over 100 teas already in its database, including origin, type of tea, and brewing quantity, time, and temperature recommendations.
• Add New Teas: Does you local tea shop have an in-house blend you particularly love? Add it to Infusion! You could even add other types of timed beverages.
• Generic Timer: Since we built a timer for tea, Infusion comes with a generic timer as well, for times in seconds and minutes up to 60 minutes.

Device Requirements

iPhone or iPod Touch OS 3.1.3 or later.

Pricing and Availability

Infusion is available for 1.99 USD world-wide exclusively on the App Store in the Utilities category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers.

Water-Powered Ideas is pleased to announce our Spring Sale from Sunday, March 21 to Sunday April 4. All of our iPhone apps will be on sale:

• Observation, regularly $4.99, sale price $2.99
• Infusion, regularly $1.99, sale price $0.99
• Observation Lite, regularly $1.99, sale price $0.99

That’s 40% off, 50% off, and 50% off respectively!  There’s no catch, all future upgrades will be free. It’s a great opportunity to pick up our software, especially since we’ve got some great things coming for each of these apps!

Observation and Observation Lite 1.7 are out. This version includes some minor bug fixes as well as a big new feature that should improve the usability of the Conditions tab.

Conditions Location Selection: Select the location to view conditions from a list of nearby locations or browse a full list of all available Clear Sky Chart locations.

This version should also reduce the overall network usage of Observation in fetching Conditions information as well as improve performance slightly.

As always, Observation is available exclusively on the App Store in the US, Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas for $4.99 USD. Observation Lite is available worldwide exclusively on the App Store for $1.99 USD.

We’re also hard at work on some really cool new features for 2.0.

Observation and Observation Lite 1.6 are out. This release fixes is a text encoding bug that could cause a crash resulting from parsing Conditions data. There are some other minor bug fixes as well.

As always, Observation is available exclusively on the App Store in the US and Canada for $4.99 USD. Observation Lite is available worldwide exclusively on the App Store for $1.99 USD.