• Fixed a bug where the latest cleaners didn’t work on older iPods.
• Fixed a bug with taking photos on iPad 2.
• Fixed a lot of smaller bugs and issues.
• Made a lot of improvements.

Enjoy!

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If you haven’t written a review yest, please do it now.
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I’ll let them introduce themselves:

I am the original Femme Feta, my dear. And wouldn’t you agree, pigs are men? Right now I ‘m seeing an older Holstein named Fred. I just adore the way he moos me.

Hi, I’m Maggie. I will tell you right now: I’m a napper, not a biter.
But if someone comes in the room singing, “Wake up, Maggie” one more time, I’m going to roll over.

I like chasing sticks, leg hugs, having people pick up my crap, rolling in interesting smells, shedding with abandon, and farting. I hate porcupines and cheap dog food. I’m here to tell you, I’m some dog!

We’re also introducing our third app in the Clean My Screen family: Just Clean My Screen.

It sports all the cleaners of the full version of Clean My Screen but this app will also work on older and slower iPods and iPhones. In order to achieve that we had to remove the “Clean” and “Reveal” cleaning modes, so the cleaners in Just Clean My Screen will only lick your screen and not your photos. But it’s only half the price of the full version. I hope it fulfills the needs of all those people with those older iPods and iPhones.

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This is mainly a bug fix update, but an important one. Here are some of the changes:

We fixed a serious bug on the iPad where the app stopped working after a while. Quitting and restarting the app didn’t fix it, only when you restarted your iPad Clean My Screen started functioning again. This was due to an Apple bug and unfortunately we couldn’t find a workaround.

The good news is that Apple is soon releasing an updated version of the iPad OS and they have fixed this bug. The bad news is that this version, iOS 4.2 introduced another nasty bug (you hear the sound of a cleaner, but you don’t see any licking), but that was one that I could fix. So all users should update to this version.

We also added another language: besides English and Dutch, both apps are now translated in French. Bonjour les français! (Et les Québecois aussi, naturellement.)

A lot of other smaller bugs were fixed in the process.

It’s quite annoying that Clean My Screen breaks with every Apple iOS update. We’re doing a lot of non-standard things, and we keep finding bugs in Apple’s code.

Hopefully we now can spend some time adding some other animals to the app.

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New in this version:

• New easier to use interface
• iPad version
• iPhone 4 graphics
• Higher quality videos
• Vastly improved performance and stability
• Two new cleaners: Faye & Ray
• Numerous bug fixes
• And more…

We have some new cleaners coming soon, so stay tuned.
Since Apple’s iOS 4.0 update broke a lot of functionality in Clean My Screen we decided to fix those bugs first. That proved a bit more work than expected and adding an iPad version at the same time opened a whole new can of worms. However we succeeded and everything works great now.

Do you like the new improvements?

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We were a bit worried since Clean My Screen didn’t work at all in the iPad Simulator Apple provided to developers to test their apps. But the moment I started the app (with sweaty fingers) and then had Pepper clean the shiny glass all our worries were gone. It worked great and it looks gorgeous.

Here’s a sneak peak I posted on YouTube:

I will add a few minor tweaks to Clean My Screen so it looks better on an iPad, and then we’re sending the update for review to Apple. We certainly plan to make a “real” iPad version of Clean My Screen, but the iPhone version works pretty well in “2 x” iPhone mode.

Expect a much improved version very, very soon.

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As a developer I need one so I can test future versions of my apps on an actual device. And as an early adopter I crave one because I want to play with it before everyone around me has one.

Unfortunately Apple doesn’t sell the iPad in Canada yet and I do want to get mine as soon as possible. As a Canadian I can’t just order one at Apple’s US website since you need a US credit card linked to a US address to shop in the US online Apple Store.

But as a Canadian (and any other nationality) you can reserve an iPad and that’s what I did. I’ll pick it up (or have a family member pick it up) on April 3rd in a brick and mortar Apple Store that is located near the Canadian border. (Coincidentally April 3rd is very close to my birthday on April Fools Day, so I have yet another good excuse to get an iPad now.)

One only needs a US iTunes account to reserve an iPad, and that is easy to obtain, even without a credit card.

Here’s how you can reserve an iPad, in 23 easy steps:

1. Start iTunes
2. Go to the iTunes Store
3. Log out of your regular account if you see your email address on the top right by clicking it and clicking the “Sign Out”- button
4. Click on the flag icon on the bottom right
5. Change to the US store by selecting the US flag in the next screen
6. Now search for a free app
7. Buy the free app
8. iTunes will ask you to sign in: Press the “Create New Account”-button
9. Navigate to the next few screens by filling in the necessary details.
10. Make sure you enter a valid email address, and your real birthday in case you forget the password. In case you have no email address that’s not already linked to the Apple store you could use an email alias at MailExpire.com
11. When you reach the screen where you have to enter your address (with the credit card pictograms) make sure you select “None” as the payment method.
12. Enter an address in the US; this can be a real address but if you don’t have one that’s not really necessary. If you need a zip code use 94111, San Francisco and the state of California, a phone number could be 650 555-8211.
13. Now click the button and check your email! You should have received an email with subject “iTunes Store Account Verification”
14. Confirm your account by clicking the link in the email
15. Now, back in iTunes, enter your email address and password you entered in step 10
16. Okay, now it’s time to reserve you iPad: start by going to the iPad reservation site
17. Click the big blue button and on the next page select (or locate) an Apple Store that is either near a friend or family member that can pick up (and pay) your iPad at April 3rd or that is at a convenient location for you to pick it up yourself.
18. On the next page select which model of iPad you want to reserve
19. Press Next and enter the email address and password of the account you just created
20. Continue the reservation process by confirming your reservation
21. Now when you check your email again and everything went right you have received an email with the subject “Your iPad has been reserved.”
22. Print the email and take it to the Apple Store on April 3rd, or forward it to your friend or family member so she can use it to pick up your iPad. Update: it might be a good idea to also print the account details you entered in iTunes for the unlikely event they ask that. You can get this info in iTunes under the account link at the top right under ‘Quick Links’. You can’t print it directly, but you can take a screenshot and print that.
23. That’s all! Enjoy your iPad!

Your US iTunes account can also be used to buy free apps (Apple’s own iBook reader?) and free music from the iTunes Store that are not available in your country. It’s a bit speculative but when Apple’s iBook Store opens you might be able to get free ebooks for your iPad when they become available. For instance Amazon doesn’t sell free books on its international Kindle stores, they’re only available on the US Kindle store. Apple might do the same, and for now, there won’t even be international iBook stores.

It can be very useful to have a US iTunes account, even when you don’t reserve an iPad now.

Update 4 April:

It turned out there were no issues at all to buy an iPad as a Canadian, they asked for my Zip Code but when I said I was Canadian the Apple sales clerk -Oh sorry, the Specialist- just entered 00000 in their iPhone Credit Card POS app. The iPad is pretty cool and Clean My Screen on it, even as an iPhone app in double-pixel mode, is pretty amazing. It instantly made me decide to make an iPad version.

But you do need your US iTunes account to buy iPad apps, so you better put some money on it when you’re at it. I bought a couple of iTunes gift cards when I bought my iPad and that works fine. Don’t worry, iPhone apps that you bought in your own country sync just fine with iTunes.

The iPad can only connect to the US iTunes Store. But Apple doesn’t check your physical location (unlike sites like Hulu and Comedy Central) so you can log in fine, even when you are not on US soil.

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Expect bug fixes (the Clean-O-Gram and reveal cleaning mode that broke in the latest iPhone OS update), some new and improved features and some new cleaners. We expect to submit the updates in a few weeks to Apple, and soon thereafter they will be available to you, for free as usual.

Stay tuned…

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But now we have a little more time to devote to our licking friends. So expect some updates soon.

In the mean time, I’d gently ask you to write a review of the Clean My Screen applications in the iTunes App Store. More reviews means higher ranks, means more sales, means we can devote more time to development.

Reviews don’t have to be long so it won’t take you very long to write one. Just click here and iTunes will open automagically on the right page. Under the screenshots you will find the blue “Write a Review >” link. Click it, write a short review and you’re done!

Thanks a lot!

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The latest versions of Clean My Screen and Clean My Screen Lite are now available in the iTunes App Store.

Enjoy! And please let us know in the comments what you think about the new features and the new cleaners.

Note: Because we added two new cleaners to Clean My Screen the app is now a hefty 16 MB and only download-able when you use a Wifi connection and not when you use the cellular phone network. We might find a way around that for the next version.

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