May 22nd, 2010 by admin
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I’m so happy to announce that Soulver 2.0 for Mac has been released. We’ve been working on this major update to Soulver day and night for about a year and a half, and its by far the biggest update yet.
To build the Soulver we were dreaming about, we realised we needed to create our own math engine from scratch. So we did, and this has allowed us to add some pretty great new features, like unit conversions and smart percentage phrases. It’s also a lot quicker and more powerful than before.
We rethought almost every aspect of the interface too. The statistics now sit under the answer column, and the answer palette comes out the side. Line references are no longer static text, but little blue tokens that you can drag around. We also added syntax coloring, stocks, currencies, and a stack of other great stuff.
May 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Good news! Soulver for iPad is now available on the App Store.
If you love Soulver on the Mac and iPhone, you’ll love it on the iPad too.
The interface is similar to our other versions of Soulver, and we’ve put a lot of time into making a really nice keyboard so calculating stuff is quick.
In landscape we’ve included a number of different keyboards on the left that you can tab between. The variables keyboard is especially cool. You can make and move around variables just like on the home screen. It’s like being able to create your custom keyboard.
You can toggle back and forwards between Soulver’s keyboard and Apple’s, so you can annotate your numbers with words like you can on the Mac:
Apple has chosen not to ship an iPad with a traditional calculator, and we think this is a great opportunity for Soulver.
February 18th, 2010 by acqualia
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We’ve redesigned the look and feel of the Acqualia website to be cleaner, easier to navigate, and more modern looking. We’ve added a number of new pages too, and dramatically improved the backend to our store.
When you buy one of our apps, you’ll see your serial code immediately on the post-sale page, along with a “click to register” link that will register your app with just a click. When purchasing, you also have the option now of gifting the app you’re buying to a friend, at 50% off.
January 6th, 2010 by acqualia
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We’re happy to announce that Soulver for iPhone & iPod Touch is now available on the App Store.
It shares the same core Soulver interface as the Mac, where you type your problems as you would write them on paper and the answer is automatically calculated and shown parallel to your work.
Unlike the standard iPhone calculator, Soulver shows you all your previous answers. This means you don’t need to use a piece of paper to keep track of your calculations. You can also go back and change anything, and see how it affects your final result.
November 17th, 2009 by acqualia
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We’re participating in the Macgraphoto bundle, where you can get 7 great image related apps, including Picturesque, for about $40 instead of around $250 (84% off!). Although Picturesque has your beautifying needs covered, DrawIt is great for doing vector art, and ImageFramer has some pretty cool photorealistic wooden frames.
The bundle closes before the end of November.
January 22nd, 2009 by acqualia
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We’re really happy to announce the release of Picturesque 2.1, a major update that we’ve been working on for the past couple of months. We’ve fixed a ton of bugs, and refined & improved nearly every part of the application.
Grab it from here:
http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque/
It’s a free update for all registered users of Picturesque 2.
Some of my favourite new features include:
Being able to scroll with the mouse-wheel/trackpad in the image browser.
The save to desktop and overwrite save features. This allows you to drop an image into Picturesque, resize it in the new resize pane, crop it, and save quickly.
The new presets drawer opening animation.
Please download the update and send us your feedback!
May 13th, 2008 by acqualia
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I’m very pleased to announce that after months of hard work, and 3 almost sleepless nights over the weekend, Picturesque 2.0 has been released.
Picturesque 2.0 features an entirely new interface, has been totally rewritten for Leopard, and includes our 3 most requested features: cropping, presets and my personal favourite, the 3D rotation effect.
Lifetime license owners will receive their free upgrade by email today, as well as anyone else who purchased Picturesque in the last 6 weeks. Other users can upgrade for $12.95.
February 8th, 2008 by acqualia
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Over the last couple months, we have managed to accomplish a lot. We exhibited at Macworld thanks to the ADA and heard a ton great feedback from Picturesque users.
We also worked with Sebastiaan de With of http://cocoia.com/ on a new icon for Picturesque. Thanks for the great work Sebastiaan, we really enjoyed working with you on this beautiful creation.
We have also been working a lot on Picturesque 2.0, we can’t say much yet, but it’s going to be great. We are trying very hard spread the word about Picturesque, but if you wouldn’t mind, it would be great if you all could do your best to help us out.
We also wanted to show off our new site design, which was completed before MacWorld, with the help of Tom Stoelwinder! The Picturesque store has also been totally overhauled, now with javascript goodness, which should make purchasing Picturesque much nicer.
Thanks for your support!
Zac & Nik
June 20th, 2007 by acqualia
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Like everyone else I use NetNewsWire, Transmit, Adium etc, but there are also a stacks of less well known indie apps out there that do what they do brilliantly, and don’t get enough recognition for their greatness.
Here are 5 of them:
MacJournal:
My favourite 3rd party application of all time. Hands down. I’m using it right now to write this. No other journaling, text-snippet managing, or GTD app has come close to tearing me away from my beloved MacJournal. Checkboxes integrated into text editing is simply an awesome idea.
TranslateIT:
Couldn’t live without it. If you are learning a foreign language (in my case Russian) TranslateIt is just invaluable. It’s just like Apple’s dictionary except for the language of your choice, and it also includes a cool scanning mode just like Apple’s mini-dictionary window for looking up words quickly on the web.
Typeset:
Apple’s Fontbook should be like this app. When I saw it, I gasped. Brilliantly designed and super useful for finding the right font for your project.
Physics 101:
I love physics and for anyone studying it or using physics related formula in school or day-to-day life, you can’t go past Physics 101.
PhotoPresenter:
Terrific app for making slideshows. Some of the effects this guy has created in Quartz Composer are just stunning.
June 18th, 2007 by acqualia
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In our rush to get 1.0 of Picturesque out before the close of the Apple Design Awards, we didn’t give the image resizing features the love and attention they deserved.
As a result, our current implementation of resizing is less than great, and images loose a lot of their quality when scaled down in Picturesque.
Resizing isn’t technically beautification, but it is one of those day-to-day tasks that people do a lot and neither Preview or iPhoto do it well. In the past I’ve used Photoshop for most of my image resizing, which seems like overkill for such a simple task.
So one of the most frequent requests we receive is for better resizing in Picturesque and we’ve been working on integrating a new resizing algorithm into the app, which will be part of the next update.
Here are some samples of the old resizing algorithm quality verses the new resizing algorithm quality:
As you can see the improvement is pretty dramatic:
Expect the update in the next week or two, and keep your improvement suggestions coming.
-Zac
