Knit Counter 1.1 Submitted to Apple

August 30, 2009

It’s been a long time since the first release of Knit Counter, but Knit Counter 1.1 and Knit Counter Lite 1.1 have finally been submitted to Apple and are currently in review. All going well they should be available for download in about a week or two.

It’s worth pointing out that Knit Counter 1.1 requires iPhone/iPod OS 3.0. This is a free upgrade for iPhone users, but Apple charges iPod touch users about US$10 for the upgrade. Unfortunately as I do all of my development and testing on my own personal iPhone (which I’ve upgraded to 3.0), I no longer have any way to develop Knit Counter for iPhones/iPods running the older version of the OS. Knit Counter and Knit Counter Lite 1.0 will of course continue to work on the older version of the OS.

I’ve received a whole lot of feature requests since the release of Knit Counter, far too many for me to include all of them in this version in fact. If your feature request hasn’t made it into this version, it hasn’t been forgotten; I’ve already started planning for the next release of Knit Counter so your desired feature may find its way into 1.2, 1.3 or beyond.

Changes in Knit Counter 1.1 include:

• New and improved method for setting up increase/decrease markers and linked counters.
• Added a “general” alert to compliment the existing increase and decrease alerts. Useful for cable rows, button holes or anything else that isn’t an increase or a decrease.
• It’s now possible to add multiples of the same field to the Info screen. Useful for projects that need more than one type of yarn or set of needles.
• Added a setting for disabling the iPhone/iPod touch’s sleep timer. When enabled the screen will remain on permanently while Knit Counter is running.
• Added a setting for frog-button lock mode. When enabled, a single tap of the frog button enables frogging, a second tap disables it again. Makes it easier to use Knit Counter one-handed.
• Added a setting for enabling sounds when incrementing/frogging counters.
• Added a setting for enabling sounds when alert rows are reached. Provides an additional, audible cue that something important needs to be done on the current row.
• A handful of minor bug fixes.

Once the new version is available for download, I’ll post updated documentation covering the new features in detail. As always, please let me know if you have any problems, queries, or feature requests. My email address is support@cordlessdog.com.