Status update, and an announcement

Let's shoot the good news right away: largely thanks to the LifeHacker review of JuiceDefender (a never redundant thank you is in order for Kevin),  rent for March is more than covered!
Of course, it's too early to tell if this is going to be sustainable in the long (or medium) term - but I guess that's mostly up to me now.

More good news: Latedroid has been selected (probably per il rotto della cuffia) for the DSPfTAMD (by the way, why does AndroidAndMe only review the big shots?) - meaning Google should send me a Nexus One to aid my development efforts.
Not only this is great because it's free - it's the only way I could ever get a N1 in Italy. But I've been forced to temporarily move out in the middle of nowhere to patiently wait for the phone - never have stuff sent to Venice, it'll just get lost.

The downside is that I've been suffering from a bad case of email overload that greatly reduced the amount of time that I can spend on coding. Which is too bad, as there are so many things to do! Moreover the quality of my support inevitably suffered; I still manage to respond to every email, but sometimes it takes a couple of days. No good.

For these two excellent reasons, I decided to semi-branch the development of JuiceDefender (and later the other apps) and to institute a "private beta" test group - this will hopefully allow me to focus more on a fast release/feedback cycle and take some load off my suffering inbox.

So if you're interested in helping the development effort join the brand new JuiceDefender Google Group:





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Now let me profusely thank the many people who are or have been in contact with me via email or in the various comments threads - reporting bugs, suggesting solutions and new features, or just discussing this or that. You guys have been immensely helpful, but more importantly it's a real pleasure to have these interesting conversations with you - let's keep it on on the group! (And, I'm sure you'll be happy to get to know each other)
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JuicePlotter

JuicePlotter is a battery usage graph that combines full at-a-glance information about your battery consumption with sheer beauty.


The coloured bands along the graph show your screen brightness, radio usage, charging status and battery temperature. Just scroll around to find precise information and make sense of the different colours.


JuicePlotter includes a Home screen widget that shows an accurate estimate of how long it will take to fully discharge/recharge your battery.


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UltimateJuice promo sale!

Tomorrow I'll be releasing JuiceDefender/UltimateJuice v1.0 temporarily-out-of-beta-edition.

For the occasion, UltimateJuice will be on sale at the promotional price of 0.99€ for the weekend - make sure to grab it on time!

(the exact times are yet to be disclosed, but an anonymous source says the promo will last "from when I publish the update on Saturday to when I change the price again on Sunday - times are in Central European Time")

For those of you who are beta aficionados: don't worry, next week I'll start working on some new, radically useful features. Back to beta business as usual!

An even better reason to celebrate is that Sunday or Monday will hopefully see the last snow of the season in Venice - it's so incredibly romantic that I'll be walking around watching chick flicks on my Magic in tears hand-in-hand with my girlfriend (that's the backup plan given that OpenEclair doesn't yet support video as of v1.2.2).

SeePU++ in the Market(s)

I just published the paid addon for SeePU (SeePU++) on the Android Market and on AndAppStore.

If you grabbed it for free during the promo, just keep it installed. It will keep working through updates to SeePU - at least until my well-laid future-proofing plan will face some unforeseen circumstance.