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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.

Observation and Observation Lite are out. The big thing this fixes is a nasty bug in CSV export formatting that didn’t properly escape fields with commas that I believe was introduced a couple versions ago. There are some minor bug fixes to Conditions 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 exclusively on the App Store worldwide for $1.99 USD.

Infusion 1.1 is out! If your device has a sleep timer set to more than one minute and thirty seconds more than the amount of time a running timer has remaining, that timer will be unreliable. This update fixes the problem by adding the option of preventing device sleep while a timer is running.

As always, you can find it on the App Store.

Water-Powered Ideas is pleased to announce the release of Infusion for iPhone and iPod Touch. Infusion is a tea timer for the iPhone and iPod touch. Infusion 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.

Features

• Single-touch to start a favorite tea timer after launch.
• Customize favorites: when selected, a favorite can start a timer, show a timer, or show the tea’s information.
• Large catalog of over 100 teas from around the world.
• Add your own teas, blends, or any other timed beverage.
• Specify tea type and location of origin, as well as brewing temperature and leaf quantity in addition to time.
• Works as a generic timer, just set a time and start it.
• Customizable launch behavior: change the tab opened when Infusion launches.
• Temperatures can be converted between Fahrenheit and Celsius.

Device Requirements

• iPhone or iPod Touch OS 3.0 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 the 1.3 release of Observation and Observation Lite for iPhone and iPod Touch. This is a performance and stability release that fixes some known bugs.

Changes in 1.4

• Fixed bugs related location services that could cause crashes.
• Specifically fixed a crash when location services are disabled on iPod Touch.

Observation is available in the United States and Canada for $4.99 USD/CAD exclusively on the App Store. in the Utilities category. Observation Lite is available worldwide for $1.99 USD exclusively on the App Store. in the Utilities category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers.

You can now find Observation on Facebook: Observation on Facebook

And don’t forget, you can always follow Water-Powered Ideas on Twitter!

Now that Observation Lite is out, the core functionality of Observation is available for international users. Because the data source for Conditions in the full version is only for North America I was unable to sell it anywhere else.

Observation Lite might be missing the Conditions information, a large chunk of the full version’s functionality, but it’s by no means a “limited” edition of Observation. It is otherwise fully-functional. Log entries won’t have seeing and transparency automatically filled in, but in feedback I have received since Observation was released, this seems to be a fair trade-off. Observation is the only app on the iPhone/iPod Touch dedicated to recording astronomy log entries, and this lets international users in on the party.

The only down-side is that the only localization available is english. I will be working the bring more translations in the future.

I’m still looking for alternative data sources to bring the full version to users outside of North America, but I do hope this proves useful in the meantime.