2009: Our first year as Bjango

2009 has been a great year for us. We’ve been able to evolve a reasonably successful donationware company into a small, independent iPhone and Mac company that supports four staff members.

We’ve pumped out 30 releases (an average of one every 12 days), a few articles and countless Recipes. Doing so has meant we’ve worked some stupidly long hours, but we’ve enjoyed every second of it.

What’s in store for 2010? A lot. We have some big plans for our current range of apps, plus a few ideas for new apps. We’ve also enlisted a couple of talented friends so we can build games that would have been beyond our reach previously.

Thank you everyone. It’s been a very busy, but highly enjoyable year. We wish you all the best for the festive season and the new year.

Signed,
The Bjango lucky monkeys.

iPhone releases

• iStat — 3 versions (1.0, 1.1, 1.2)
• Consume — 4 versions (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.21)
• Jobs — 1 version (1.2)
• Darkness — 5 versions (2.0, 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
• Phases — 4 versions (2.0, 3.0, 3.01, 3.1)
• Cities — 3 versions (1.0, 1.1, 2.0)
• Beats — 2 versions (1.0, 1.1)
• Matches — 3 versions (1.0, 1.1, 1.11)

Mac releases

• iStat Server — 1 version (1.0)
• iStat Menus — 1 version (2.0)
• iStat Pro — 3 versions (4.8, 4.9, 4.91)

Articles

• The settings used to be in the Settings app
• Gold digging on the App Store
• Mobile and portable app store round-up
• Using Photoshop for iPhone development
• Testing landscape app interfaces
• How many layers are in my Photoshop doc?