Press release -- San Francisco, California -- June 22nd -- PoweryBase Inc. has released NotifyMe 2, a major update to a very popular iPhone to-do reminder app. NotifyMe version 2, a free update for all existing customers, brings live cloud to-do sharing for authorized friends and family, new design, over 30 new features and over 100 tweaks. PoweryBase Inc. has also launched NotifyMeCloud, a cloud service dedicated to NotifyMe 2 users. NotifyMeCloud service provides task-sharing sharing features via cloud, collaboration and other advanced cloud features.

PoweryBase has released NotifyMe 2, a major update to a very popular iPhone to-do reminder app. NotifyMe version 2.0 with a new design, 30 new features, 100+ tweaks, local notifications and full iOS 4.0 support is a free update for all existing customers.

Together with the newly launched NotifyMeCloud service at NotifyMeCloud.com, all NotifyMe 2 users can start using innotivative cloud features, such as sharing reminders with authorized friends and family live over the internet.

NotifyMe 2 feature highlights

• NotifyMeCloud support (all existing user accounts automatically updated and eglible)
• Completely redesigned
• Full iOS 4.0 support
• Multitasking support, quick startup from suspend (new in iOS 4.0)
• Local notifications support (new in iOS 4.0)
• Sharing and adding reminders with authorized family and friends
• Web access to users' accounts
• Advanced custom repeating patterns
• Autosnooze, keeps alerting infinitely until task marked done
• Custom pre-alerts
• Syncing support for NotifyMe iPad Control Center (iPad app coming soon)
• Custom melody per reminder

NotifyMe 2 Simple

PoweryBase now also offers NotifyMe 2 Simple, a more simple version which works completely offline, doesn't support NotifyMeCloud, live sharing with authorized friends, and other advanced features. NotifyMe 2 Simple is ideal for users who require less features and prefer minimalism. Feature comparison table is available at NotifyMeCloud.com.

Pricing and availability

NotifyMeCloud service is free, customers only need to obtain the app itself.

NotifyMe 2 is available on iTunes App Store, free for all existing customers. New customers can get NotifyMe 2 for $5.99 (USD).

NotifyMe 2 Simple is available on iTunes App Store for $2,99 (USD)

About PoweryBase

PoweryBase Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company primarily focused on cloud oriented development, apps and services. NotifyMe 2 stands out as a natural outgrowth of what can be accomplished with cloud development and push service provided by Apple.

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Apple, iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. PoweryBase Inc. is not associated with Apple Inc.

Dominik Balogh
Marketing
PoweryBase Inc.

Bills v1.1 is going to be submitted to Apple shortly, check out the screenshots below from the new "Stats" section. Of course, many fixes are included in this release, including the revamped AutoPay feature. You can finally turn it off for repeating bills so they can become overdue. More informations will be included in the release log.

UPDATE: 1.1 is out, release log now available below.

Please consider rating our application or updating your AppStore review if you like this update. Thank you very much.

NEW FEATURES:

• AutoPay can now be turned off for repeating bills so they can become overdue.
• New Stats/Totals section, summarizing bills by custom date range, currency and categories.
• Repeating cycles increased to 99 repeats.
• Pre-alert range increased to 30 days.

FIXES:

• Fixed: Slightly incorrect regional formats for Canadian Dollars (CAD) and British Pounds (GBP).
• Fixed: Korean Wons (KRW) currency symbol.
• Fixed: Bug with a '&' character in the category name.
• Fixed: Support for non-full hour time zones and their respective UTC offsets.
• Fixed: Some Calendar bugs when re-saving non-repeating bills as repeating ones.
• Fixed: Some other UI bugs in Calendar.
• Fixed: Creating new bills with a close due date in the web access.
• Fixed: If Manual syncing is used, network connection availability warning will not show up anymore.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Please enable and disable an Airplane mode after updating to prevent problems with Push notifications.
• Please disable AutoPay on all previous repeating bills manually if don't wish them to be automatically marked as paid on their due dates.

UPDATE: We've received a lot of inquiries, private beta team is now closed for new members, thank you!

We've been very busy over the last few months working on our new application called "Bills ~ on your table". Bills allows you to track your bills so you'll never forget again to pay them on time. Most of us are too lazy to use budget and expenses tracking applications daily, but nobody should forget to pay important bills. Bills on your table works on any iPhone or iPod touch. It's one of the very few apps that supports 170 (meaning virtually all) currencies and currency formats around the world. It's also possible to add the bills via web access. Push notifications support is included, of course.

Well, Bills is finished and since it's almost impossible to deliver a glitch-free piece of software in the first run, we are seeking about 40 testers to help us find bugs in real-life usage. If you already are a member of our private beta team from testing NotifyMe, you don't need to apply again, we haven't forgotten about you! As a side note, the good thing for NotifyMe users is that most of the server core from Bills will be shared with NotifyMe 2 (custom snoozing patterns, custom categories, etc.) and that's why we have delayed the update. More on that later though.

Everybody who is willing to help us with finding bugs in Bills, please e-mail us at info@powerybase.com with the subject Bills betatest. Please include the following informations:

• Your iPhone/iPod touch UDID
• Your iPhone/iPod touch model
• Firmware version
• Twitter handle (if you own one)
• Your name
• Your location (country)

Enough talk, let's take a look at how Bills looks on the screenshots below.

If you're interested, please let us know. Thank you!

Important news to all NotifyMe users - please be aware that Daylight Saving Time (also known as Summer Time) ends in a few days in most parts of the world.

Standard Time begins as follows:

• On 25th October in all west & central European countries (clock falls back to Standard Time from 3:00 to 2:00)
• On 25th October in United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal (clock falls back to Standard Time from 2:00 AM to 1:00 AM)
• On 1st November in USA and Canada (clock falls back to Standard Time from 2:00 AM to 1:00 AM)
• Australia has switched vice-versa from ST to DST on 4th October

If you are located in any of these countries or any other country which is still using Summer Time at the moment, your iPhone will switch to Standard Time automatically (assuming your region is set correctly in your iPhone settings). Please revise your existing reminders immediately the following morning and change their trigger times accordingly.

Which reminders are affected?

Luckily, (or unfortunately, depending on your usage) not all reminders are affected by the time shift. The following reminders will be received 1 hour earlier after the switch:

1. All reminders created in NotifyMe Web access during Summer Time with the future date of Standard Time
2. Recurring reminders (daily/weekly/every two weeks/monthly). Yearly repeated reminders are not affected.

If you've never used NotifyMe Web access, only mentioned recurring reminders should be delivered 1 hour earlier than before.

How to fix recurring reminders?

After the time transition, please edit your recurring reminders and set their trigger date to any date which is after the transition.

We're sorry for the inconvenience. Please note that we're already working on a seamless future transitions, so you won't have to worry about the time shift again in March 2010. Don't hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

UPDATE: The sale is now over.

NotifyMe update 1.4 was a little delayed because we had to cancel an already approved submission, but thankfully, Apple representative contacted us by phone and the review was expedited. We've listened to users and included some of the most requested features. We're also rolling out this update together with a time-limited sale, so now you can get NotifyMe for half of the regular price!

The improvements and new features in NotifyMe 1.4 are as follows:

• 8 new cute alert sounds to choose from
• Note for each reminder (scroll down the New reminder screen to type a note)
• Background initializing on startup, no more blue dialog with a spinning wheel
• Even faster startup thanks to more optimizations and dropping the dialog "framework"

During the initial background initialization, NotifyMe is in read-only mode for added reliability. As soon as Push initialization process is finished (usually within 2 seconds), you're automatically able to edit, save or remove any of reminders. Of course, the most important thing on background initializing is that you can actually start typing or navigate around the application without having to wait. Don't forget to try it and also check other new features.

If you haven't already bought NotifyMe, it's the best time to buy it now for $1,99 before the price goes up!