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Hurricane 3.7 was released with little fan fair, but had some great new features, and a few updates that really make our world class hurricane tracking application shine!
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Hurricane and Hurricane HD have been reviewed in several places over the last few weeks. Here are a few of the mentions we have found:

• Crazy Mikes Apps: Hurricane HD iPad App..Excellent Hurricane Tracking App
  
• New York Times: Gadget Wise – Apps To Track Hurricane Irene
• ABC News: Technology – Hurricane Tracker Apps for iPad, iPhone, Android to Avoid Irene
• AppShopper: Track Irene with your iPhone
• The TechLabs – Hurricane Tracking: Android, iPhone and Windows 7 Smartphone Apps
• Signal News: Hurricane Irene Tracking Apps: iPhone, iPad, and Android

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We have a lot of really great features in Hurricane 3.6, but one of the most exciting features is the addition of forecast wind field radius. Most of us have seen the text from the National Hurricane Center that says how far from the center hurricane, tropical storm, and tropical depression force winds extend from the center of the storm.

RED – Hurricane
ORANGE – Tropical Storm
YELLOW – Tropical Depression

Hurricane is a feature packed, professional quality hurricane tracking application that gives you everything you need to stay ahead of the storm. Here are just SOME of our features:

WORLD WIDE Broadcast Quality
Interactive Tracking Maps
• wind speed, lat/lon, speed/direction, pressure, date and time
• your distance from ★ each point ★
• standard / metric units ★ New ★

Interactive 5 Day Forecast Cone ★ Exclusive ★
• each forecast point’s: location, wind speed, pressure, distance
• Forecast Point Wind Radius ★ New Exclusive ★

Active Storm data and imagery
• ANIMATED Floater Satellites ★ Exclusive ★
• ANIMATED Regional and Local Radar ★ Exclusive ★
• Computer Models
• NHC, CPHC and JTWC Text Products/Bulletins, Forecasts and Charts, Hurricane Local Statements
• Invests in Active Storm List
• Pull down to refresh Active Storm List ★ New ★

General Features
• Push notifications
• Over 50 Animated WORLD WIDE satellite image loops ★ Exclusive ★
• Animated US Regional and Territory Radar
• Tropical Outlooks ★ Invest ★ – updated with official NHC/JTWC info
• Sea Surface Temperatures, SAL
• Storm Names
• Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
• Help / FAQ with Preparedness Info and more!
• Twitter Feed ★ New ★
• News / Video Updates ★ New ★

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Traveler’s Quest is having another freebie weekend! Normally sold for $0.99 in the iTunes App Store Traveler’s Quest is on sale for the duration of the US Independence Day Weekend. No freebie weekend is complete without a new collection though! “The Great Plains” Collection, actually located in the Northwest US, was also released today. While we won’t give any spoilers out, this is a very down to earth collection celebrating the Native Americans who lived here long before the white man settled their land.

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WWDC was a great experience for us here at Kitty Code. Our CEO Ilene Jones took the trip, had a great time learning at the sessions, seeing Steve Jobs in person for the first time, and meeting with other developers like Mike Wolfenbarger just one developer of RadarScope, Ross Kimes developer of StormSpotter as well as Dylan and Dustin Bruzenak of AppViz analytics app for the Mac. The time we spent IRL (In Real Life) was great. It was especially interesting to talk about our beginnings, since we have all been writing apps for iOS devices since 2008, and hear the perspectives of others in our small weather app community. There were others we hoped to see, but alas, it was not meant to be.

While in San Francisco, we also had the opportunity to meet with Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief of MacTech Magazine and TUAW’s own Editor-in-Chief Victor Agreda, Jr. We had a short video interview about our apps, which mostly focused on our virtual geocaching game Traveler’s Quest.

TUAW: WWDC Interview with Kitty Code
MacTech: WWDC Interview with Kitty Code

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