Finally: We’re switching to the new Birdie Online Course Editor tonight!

Unfortunately, it’s a little bit more work than just uploading the new web application: The new course editor is based on a new database model, managing Birdie’s course database. The new database is not only much more flexible for future extensions, but also faster (hopefully).

This also means, that Birdie on the iPhone and iPod touch will fetch it’s course data from a new source in the future. If everything is working as planned and expected, the whole switch should be transparent to Birdie users and there’ll be only a short disruption in the availability of Birdie’s course database during the next few hours.

We took the old course editor offline when we started the transition earlier tonight. But the new course editor should be up and running until tomorrow (Monday) morning, CEST.

The new course edior is not only much more comfortable to use and more compatible with all the different web browsers, it also enables users to directly edit existing course data. There’s already one tutorial movie for the new course editor available in German. English tutorial movies will follow soon. The editor itself will be available in German and English localizations.

We’ll keep you updated on the progress right here in the blog. 

[Update: Monday, 11 AM CEST]: The update has finished successfully. The new Course Editor is now available!

Finally: We’re switching to the new Birdie Online Course Editor tonight!

Unfortunately, it’s a little bit more work than just uploading the new web application: The new course editor is based on a new database model, managing Birdie’s course database. The new database is not only much more flexible for future extensions, but also faster (hopefully).

This also means, that Birdie on the iPhone and iPod touch will fetch it’s course data from a new source in the future. If everything is working as planned and expected, the whole switch should be transparent to Birdie users and there’ll be only a short disruption in the availability of Birdie’s course database during the next few hours.

We took the old course editor offline when we started the transition earlier tonight. But the new course editor should be up and running until tomorrow (Monday) morning, CEST.

The new course edior is not only much more comfortable to use and more compatible with all the different web browsers, it also enables users to directly edit existing course data. There’s already one tutorial movie for the new course editor available in German. English tutorial movies will follow soon. The editor itself will be available in German and English localizations.

We’ll keep you updated on the progress right here in the blog. 

[Update: Monday, 11 AM CEST]: The update has finished successfully. The new Course Editor is now available!

After 8 days waiting, TwittMS has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store!

TwittMS is an application for sending and receiving Direct Messages within the Twitter network. Never before has this feature been accessible in an easy to use way. By concentrating on this specific task, TwittMS finally does it right and offers unmatched features: Conversations are displayed in chat-style views, contacts can be grouped on multiple pages, and much more! 

We just submitted TwittMS v1.0 to the iTunes App Store and now wait for its approval.

The TwittMS homepage has been launched yesterday. Besides detailed information on TwittMS and some FAQs, it also presents a nice screencast of TwittMS.

Be sure to get a glance at our new, shiny app on its product page.

We surely let you know when TwittMS gets approved and will be available in the App Store.

We recently introduced a new section on the Pleasant Software homepage: “Pleasant Software Developer Tools“.

Currently there are two free developer tools/frameworks available from Pleasant Software:

• “iMBiPhoneView”, an open source framework for transferring files and data between Mac and iPhone applications
• “TagDefaultImage”, a command line tool to tag text to Default.png images during a build phase in XCode.

There’s also a new sample movie of iMBiPhoneView in a real world application on the iMBiPhoneView page.

To access the Developer Tools page, click onto the “Developer” icon in the upper left of the Pleasant Software homepage:

We recently introduced a new section on the Pleasant Software homepage: “Pleasant Software Developer Tools“.

Currently there are two free developer tools/frameworks available from Pleasant Software:

• “iMBiPhoneView”, an open source framework for transferring files and data between Mac and iPhone applications
• “TagDefaultImage”, a command line tool to tag text to Default.png images during a build phase in XCode.

There’s also a new sample movie of iMBiPhoneView in a real world application on the iMBiPhoneView page.

To access the Developer Tools page, click onto the “Developer” icon in the upper left of the Pleasant Software homepage:

Today we’ve released Birdie v1.2.

New features include:

• Italian localization added.
• Counter switchs now support autorepeat.
• Score cards are now customizable (enable and reorder columns).
• More result options on score cards.
• Improved automatic course handicap calculation.
• Support for course data updates.
• Many more improvements.

For a full list of changes and improvements, see the full version history.

Birdie v1.2 is a free update for all Birdie users and is available through the iTunes App Store.

Birdie is a golf scoring application, made with golfers’ needs in mind.
Besides the ease of use and enhanced speed, Birdie provides many enhanced features like the built in “range finder” or the fully automated calculation of score card results. In addition to counting each player’s strokes during a game, Birdie also automatically calculates the game’s results according to different rules including “Stroke Play”, “Stableford” and “Match Play”.

Features include:

• Count up to four players per flight.
• Automatic calculation of each players course handicap.
• Range finder to determine the approximate distance to the hole.
• Send game results by e-mail.

Perfect for both: iPhone and iPod touch
Birdie is perfectly usable offline, which makes it well suited for the iPhone in low or no reception areas as well as for the iPod Touch.

Birdie is only $18.99 and available on Apple’s iTunes AppStore starting today.