05.06.10 Solar Walk for iPad – released!>>
Alexandria, VA., -- May 6, 2010 -- Vito Technology today announced its Solar Walk App for iPad is available on the App Store. Solar Walk is a comprehensive addition to Star Walk that shows a 3D model of the Solar system with detailed info about each planet. It gives users a beautiful, educational, and interactive walk around the Solar system on their iPad.
Aside from astonishingly beautiful and smooth graphics and animation, the iPad version brings you a more accurate orrery with added Phobos and Deimos (Deathstar-like moon of Mars) 3D models. All planets look so realistic that you can even see the clouds together with the relief of mountains, lakes, oceans. We have received a great amount of positive feedback about the educational value of this app from kids and parents and hope that iPad version will inspire even more fascination and curiosity.
Benefit greatly from using Solar Walk for interactive learning and getting closer to the Universe by learning how it functions!
04.03.10 Star Walk for iPad – released!>>
Alexandria, VA., -- April 3, 2010 -- Vito Technology today announced its Star Walk App for iPad is available on the App Store. The astronomy app includes a comprehensive interface, highly detailed info for each object and gives users a beautiful, educational, and interactive star walk on their iPad.
The Star Walk App for iPad has a complete, revised information set about stars, constellations, and messier objects. All options and controls are now unified within one intuitive menu and menu icons are explained with a word or two so users know what each symbol stands for. The time machine interface has also been redesigned for iPad.
04.02.10 Solar Walk – released!>>
April 2nd, 2010. Solar Walk is a new app by Vito Technology, already the creator of one of the best selling astronomy apps in the App Store - Star Walk. Solar Walk is a nice addition to Star Walk that shows a 3D model of the Solar System with detailed info about each planet.
Let's find out more about our neighboring planets in the Universe, play around with them determining the speed of circulation, time, choosing a particular planet to become the center of the Universe, seeing the moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Urano. The 3D model in the Solar Walk app is the exact reproduction of the real solar system.
Solar Walk stands out among other astronomy apps having a very beautiful and smooth graphics and animations. The Earth as well as other planets looks so realistic that you can even see the clouds together with the relief of mountains, lakes, oceans. Solar Walk was developed thanks to the good knowledge in astronomy and mathematics and at the same time perfect skills in mobile development.
Benefit greatly from using Solar Walk for interactive learning and getting closer to the universe by learning how it functions!
03.26.10 Star Walk – 4.0 released!>>
March 26th, 2010. The latest result of the hard work of Vito Technology developers is Star Walk 4.0. It is beautiful, educational, and interactive!
The Sky Live screen window is with inscriptions now. That is all planets, arrows, and elevation signs are more comprehensible and can be read even by newbies in astronomy. Find the info about the sunrise, sunset, elevation of the Sun and the length of the day; the Moon and it phases for several days; and four other main planets - Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter; when they rise, set, and their elevation.
All options and controls are now unified within one Menu, tap the icon in the bottom right hand corner to access. The menu icons are explained with a word or two so you know what each symbol stands for. The time machine interface has also been changed a bit.
Another major improvement is in the info section: Star Walk has now a more complete, revised information set about stars, constellations, and messier objects.
02.14.10 Star Walk – special St.Valentine's Edition!>>
February 14th, 2010. This Valentine's, let your beloved be your only star, giving him/her the whole sky! A new special feature has been added to the sky of Star Walk and will be available only for the St. Valentine's weekend. Find the heart shaped button on the left, choose the place on the sky you like the most, tap the heart and your chosen screen will be framed with a virtual Valentine Card, available in several different variants. Never before has it been so simple to make your loved one the most beautiful star in the sky!
Please note Valentine Cards will be available between Feb,13 and Feb,15 only.
This coming weekend there is one more surprise in store. In fact, St. Valentine's Day matches the Chinese New Year, so we decided to treat our fans with this year's symbol, which will appear on Star Walk virtual sky during the holiday week from Feb,14 to Feb,21.
01.28.10 Star Walk – with a new sky!>>
January 28th, 2010. The new Star Walk starts the new year with version 3.5 that features a new sky, new splash and FAQ! The starry night sky in Star Walk is clearer and appears less crowded. Now the stars on the background picture do not interfere with the real stars.
New splash evoked lots of discussions in our team. Some think that the bear looks fine, others say it is a bit aggressive. We'd like to know your opinion. Check out our new splash and share your ideas whether you like it or not on our Facebook page.
Due to our users requests we added FAQ to make sure everybody is clear on how to use Star Walk and what the symbols we use mean, e.g. the tan dashed line, the red lined circles, the squares with symbols. Besides we added instructions on how to adjust the number of stars seen on the screen to the number of stars seen with the naked eye, how to switch on and off the push notifications of the Astronomy Pictures of the day.
12.15.09 Star Walk brightens up for the holiday season with New SKY LIVE window and NEW price $2.99 - till Jan, 5 >>
Decenber 15th, 2009. A new window with new information and few more surprises to be discovered for the holidays are only some of the beautiful features of Star Walk version 3.4, now also selected by Apple as one of the best app for 2009. If you like the sound of this try and play with our Star Walk Challenge, a free, easy to use but yet challenging game to augment your adventures in the universe.
Open Star Walk and the new SKY LIVE window will open in front of you with data about sun rise, sunset times, daylight hours and elevation will be shown. More you can see moon phases and read rise, set time and elevation for 4 main planets: Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter so you will never miss what is happening on the sky. Clicking on the arrows you can collect same information for further or past days. To check the SKY LIVE window simply click on the new upper left hand corner moon shaped button.
You can become an expert star gazer reading up about more than 9,000 stars, looking at all the planets, constellations and messier objects. The smooth and stunning interface will help you locate them and admire them in all their beauty. You can zoom on them, pan them, click on -i- for collecting information and see where they will be next with the time machine.
If you have a 3GS enjoy the STAR SPOTTER FUNCTION to activate the digital compass on Star Walk tilt your phone and what you are looking at in the sky will appear on the screen. You can pan the iPhone display and scroll the stars around you.
Star Walk is available with a discount for $2.99 at AppStore till Jan 5.
11.19.09 Comunication Suite 2.0 is out! >>
November 19th, 2009. VITO Technology releases new version of Communication Suite. This version includes the latest updates of all 4 best sellers (Winterface 2.04, FunContact 3.01, SMS-Chat 1.25 and ZoomBoard 2.04). Winterface has gained lots of features that will allow you to customize your phone to your needs: change skins (10 new skins are available), background color or picture, headings for the icons and much more
Winterface 2.04 now includes 10 new skins, changeable background, customizable headings and much more. Now the customization of the look of your phone can be done extremely quickly with quite a wide range possibilities.
FunContact3x is a great contact manage. Alongside with new features like categories, favorites with pictures, etc. FunContact has preserved unique features that none of the competitors have, for instance, you can edit and add new contact info straight in FunContact without going to standard WM interface.
SMS-Chat 1.25 a part from including all functions of messaging software has unique interfaces and functions that allow you to manage all SMS correspondences into threaded SMS conversations. This way all chats are separate, clearly shown and organized for each contact.
ZoomBoard 2.04 is a soft onscreen keyboard for quick and accurate finger typing. Every time you press a letter ZoomBoard displays the zoomed image of the pressed letter in a popping-up lens. You can also use it to zoom the whole keyboard. The letter is typed only after you release the finger so that your text input will always be accurate and quick.
Weather is a FREE weather forecast for Winterface with nice interface and good functionality.
Communication Suite is available for $24.95 at http://vitotechnology.com/communication-suite.html.
11.06.09 Star Walk 1st Birthday - little story of success! >>
November 6th, 2009. What a year: Obama gets elected, iPhone and App Store boom and hundred thousand of new astronomers are born thanks to Star Walk! Yes, Star Walk is turning 1 year old and we want to celebrate with you. You haven't star gazed this year? Not even once? Get Star Walk and admire the sky, its beauty and learn all about it. It has never been so easy, so beautiful and so much fun.
But lets recall this success story in all its important dates:
06.11.2008 - Star Walk is born and appears with version 1.0 on App Store. We developer were confident we had done a good job, but how many people out there would appreciate astronomy as much as us was all to be seen.
24.01.2009 - Star Walk made more than 10.000 new astronomers and version 1.2 with Meteor Showers and Wikipedia linked information is out.
14.02.2009 - Star Walk reaches top 3 in its category. The romantic hearts decided to stargaze for their S. Valentine night.
22.04.2009 - The numbers of new astronomers triple and Star Walk launches version 1.5 to give more to the star gazers of the world, now with 110 pictures of Stars and Constellations, new settings and bookmarks.
24.07.2009 - Star Walk 2.0 has now Digital Compass, the function that now almost 50,000 new astronomers waited for. Star Walk on 3GS activates the accelerometer function and tilting the phone Star Walk shows what you are looking at and follows your movements.
18.09.2009 - Star Walk is just the most beautiful astronomy app on App Store! The new version 3.0 adds a fantastic 3D globe to help you find different locations on earth and to see how the sky looks from there.
14.10.2009 - Star Walk gets even more beautiful with version 3.1 and showing off astronomy pictures of the day and notifying for each new pictures with PUSH. We are never tired to make this app the fanciest ever for astronomy! We receive some amazing comments, one from FCC Chairman ''priceless'' he says.
26.10.2009 - we are getting ready to celebrate our first Birthday and aiming to exceed the 100,000 fans numbers. Star Walk is also booming in Japan, on What's Hot there and num. 1 in the Education category.
06.11.2009 - Celebrate with us!!!! ONLY this day the price of Star Walk is 5 times less than usual! It will cost only $0.99!
Star Walk - the universe in your hands