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Sudoku 2.0 approaching Beta status

So I know I’ve been a little behind on working on 2.0, but I’m getting close and I’m going to need some BETA testers. If you are interested, please sign-up for an account on the blog (not in the comments please - I don’t want anyone’s emails revealed) and I’ll send you an email in […]

Sponsorship from Mac Fun

The kind folks over at macfun.com have offered to sponsor the widget so please visit their website.
http://macfun.com/
You’ll notice that there’s a nice little whale on the widget now if you download it.

Sudoku Widget hits the big-time!

Ok not really…But there is an article over at Gizmodo which talks about widgets and ours got a significant mention. Big thanks to Laura Richardson for writing an excellent article! Here’s the link.

Sudoku Widget FAQs

I’ve added a small page of FAQ’s because many of the questions that are asked were covered in some of the comments buried away. Please check out the FAQs if you have any questions. If your specific question isn’t answered let me know and someone will try to answer it asap. To get to the […]

Gmaps pedometer is cool!

I used Gmaps pedometer to map out the route I ran this weekend and it’s pretty awesome. I have a Polar watch which tells me the distance and elevation (and they matched up pretty well - the watch said 10.4 miles). But, I like seeing it on the map and especially like the little elevation […]

Sudoku Widget 1.5 released

Sudoku 1.5 (formerly known as 2.0 beta) has been released. Here’s the changes.

high scores
auto-pencil marks are editable and strikeable
pencil mark only mode for faster entry
ability to delete all pencil marks and/or reset puzzle
easy level is a little easier per request
universal binary
puzzle doesn’t disappear anymore upon completion
other minor bug fixes

Download it here.

Sudoku 2.0 Beta is being reversioned as 1.5

Sorry for the confusion, but I decided to change the version #’s because I really want to change a lot of things for 2.0 including a rewrite of much of the code. On the other hand, I also want to release this version in the interim and the changes won’t really justify a small, say […]

Fixed problems of beeping

Arg! Don’t you love when Apple changes something in one of their software updates and it breaks something else. Anyway the incessant beeping caused by 10.4.5 in the widget has been fixed in Sudoku 2.0 Beta 4. Also fixed:

time incorrectly displaying
high score sorting
and hopefully the disappearing numbers, though I have yet to see it happen […]

Sudoku Widget 2.0 Beta 3 available

Fixes:

High scores sort correctly (your high scores will be deleted when you update though - sorry)
Time shown with high scores
‘P’ or ‘p’ puts you in pencil mark only mode - hit it again to go back. Caps lock doesn’t work because of the way keyboard entry is handled
shift-Delete - deletes all pencil marks
ctrl-Delete […]

Paypal donations accepted

So I know you are all saying to yourself now, “I knew this would happen, great things never stay free.” But, it’s my hope and intention that the Sudoku Widget will always stay free. Unfortunately, I also want want to be able to give everyone the best possible widget and Sudoku game possible and we’ve […]