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Clever Tales 1.2 is up!

Irina Gorina — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:37:13 +0000

We love beautiful images of Clever Tales and want to make choosing the tale a joy itself. When you turn your device into horizontal position the “Cover Flow” new mode will allow you to enjoy big pictures flowing! Tap the picture and you get to the fairy tale!

As many other people we are waiting for the iOS 5.0 and while waiting we make some preparations so that our apps look good on it too.

And of course we did our best to keep polishing the app, make little improvements that are not very visible but make our friendly app even more friendly.

“My Rights”(rus) is #1 Reference in Russian AppStore!

AppGrade — Mon, 30 May 2011 20:09:24 +0000

Again :)

“Clever Tales” 1.1

AppGrade — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:04:09 +0000

At last the finishing touches were added, and the update is already in the AppStore! There are some pleasant changes waiting for you in the new version: new tales and functions.
We want to say thank you very much to our readers who sent us their tales! Most of them were in Russian, but one of them in English.
We have also added a feature that we, as young parents love to have: the ability to record your reading of the tale. Of course, the tales, voiced by professional artists are great, but the Parent-Grandparent’s execution is not comparable to anything else for their kid.
We’ll keep adding more to the app!

“My Rights”(rus) Reloaded!

AppGrade — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:06:32 +0000

For internal reasons we had to change the publisher, and as the Apple rules do not allow to transfer applications from one publisher to another, we werehad to release our very popular and useful app again. The new “Rights” are very different from the old – we have added many new features, ability to customize the interface to meet many needs, and, what is very importantly, we have expanded the base of normative documents, new tips and situations.

“Clever Tales” app has become #1 What’s Hot Books in Russian App Store

AppGrade — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:33:49 +0000

…and was a #4 What’s Hot iPad Books in US App Store.

Steve kills “the music industry”? Thank you, Stevie!

AppGrade — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:53:17 +0000

Recently, a very famous musician with a funny name Jon Bon Jovi said that “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for destroying the music business”, and also expressed his regret about the loss of the charm of holding plates in hands:

“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.”

Well… Firstly, I want to ask: where was my dear Mr. Bon Jovi, when the “music industry” of the 19th century (for example :-)) was destroyed? (Oh yeah, I’m sorry he was not born yet.) How about a foretaste of the visit to the Philharmonic, the only place where you can really touch the beautiful, where you can hear the pure sound of instruments in the hall with perfect acoustics? Where are the memorable soiree, when the hostess would have had definitely opened the piano to let her guests enjoy her playing? All this had been “killed” by the opportunity to buy some soulless black “pancake”, put it into the device like an evil creature from a fairy tale, fell on the sofa and listen to the creak and crack, which is a pitiful semblance of beautiful sounds, do it alone, maybe munching a sandwich at the same time! Isn’t it terrible? Doesn’t it “kill” the art? “Emile Berliner you bear personal responsibility for it, you scoundrel!” – Bon Jovi would have probably said.

Second, if Steve would kill “music industry” in the form that it has now, personally, I’ll tell him thank you twice! For being able to buy (not steal) the music I love, that cannot be found in any music store of the capital city of my great state. And my second “thank you” goes for his store and distribution system, that gives to independent musicians, to whom music is above all a genuine sublimation of their own thoughts and feelings, and to the ones like Mr. Bon Jovi – star millionaires with the image of rockers, for whom art is just business – equal (almost equal, the world is cruel and wild, but “almost” means a lot really) rights and opportunities.

So maybe that’s what the author of the aim is afraid of?

Denied charity

Irina Gorina — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:14:56 +0000

Was trying to help the Japanese, to transfer money on charity account, opened in iTunes. Did not work! :( (In the Russian segment it is not possible at all, in the U.S. – possible only if you have credit card, but my account is being replenished with Gift Cards)

I do not understand Apple in this case. Surely, there should be some reasonable explanation for such discrimination. Does anyone know?

Clever Tales Small Update

Irina Gorina — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:22:36 +0000

While working on a huge update with lots of new stuff we decided to cheer our dear readers up with a small one. We have added more pictures as little kids were asking for more. So, dear Bina, more pics … Continue reading →

“Clever Tales” app has become #1 TOP Paid Books in Russian App Store

AppGrade — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:46:37 +0000

…and # 19 (iphone) and #21 (ipad) Top Paid Books in the US!

How many apps are equal to one underpants?

Irina Gorina — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:04:26 +0000

Today I went to visit my brother, 29 yo handsome bachelor, cool guy having expensive brand underpants, who was surprised with the price we have set up for Clever Tales:
- What? 5 bucks? For tales?

People are able to pay a lot of money for a piece of cloth with a label (not some unique handmade stuff) but any price for the app they consider high and awfully unfair whatever amount of effort, heart and time was spent.

Ironically today we are going AppFriday and go with maximum discount… So we have just added our two cents to spoiling the customers :-)