Happy Maau Studios LLC
22Jan/12Off

What a Week

What a week we've had here. We started the week with Math Ref on Apple's Education What's Hot list, which was awesome. Math Ref got some great feedback on Twitter and a few websites like this one and we saw it climb all the way into the top 40 in Education. If that wasn't amazing enough, we had a really big surprise when we saw Math Ref make the top of the iPad Education section in Australia. Not only that, but it made the top 50 in all apps there too. And even with all that, one of the coolest things has been the huge number of positive feedback we've gotten about the app. It's incredible to get emails from you the users, thanking us for even making the app. So, thank you all for your amazing support! That's a lot of success and we're very excited about it.

We'd also like to remind everyone that this is the last week of voting for The 2011 Best App Ever Awards. We're really hoping to get at least a top three spot this year, but we need your help.

Best Young Adults App
Best High School Student App
Best Middle School Student App
Best College Student App

Hope everyone has a great upcoming week, remember to vote, and thanks for all your support. Definitely a great year so far thanks to you all.

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4Jan/120

Math Ref Nominated 3rd Year in a Row!

Thank you everyone who voted for Math Ref in the first round of The 2011 Best App Ever Awards. For the 3rd year in a row we've made it into the second round thanks to you all. We're really excited that both the iOS and Android versions were recognized, so humbling. We're hoping to keep the momentum going and get it into the final round for each of the categories we were nominated for:

Best Young Adults App
Best High School Student App
Best Middle School Student App
Best College Student App

Check out all the categories at the Best App Ever site. There's a lot of great apps nominated this year and we think TUAW says it best, "they feature many of the greatest apps you'll find on the iOS store, chosen by users." You all make this possible and we can't thank you enough. So, show your support for Math Ref and for all the other amazing apps nominated this year and vote. Have a great rest of your week everyone and thank you again.

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2Jan/12Off

New Year, New Projects

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a great and safe holiday season. We're busy working on some awesome new projects, but took a break for the holidays and made a nice little web app for our fellow Beavers. Go to http://happymaau.com/OSUWebcams to check it out. It should work on any modern browser and even on most mobile devices. So, if you want to see the web cams across the Oregon State University campus and want an alternative to the one provided by the university that looks great on most mobile devices we've got one for you. We're really excited to bring you some great new products this coming year and make our current ones even better. Have a great week everyone.

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10Dec/110

2011 Best App Ever Awards

It's that time of year again and the Best App Ever Awards are taking their initial nominations. This contest means a lot to us as it's you guys, our users, who get us nominated. The education section this year is pretty large and there's a lot of different categories. Here's a list of categories we would love to see Math Ref nominated for.

Best App Bargain

Best College Student App

Best Adult Education App

Best App for Teens

Best Teacher App

Best Young Adults App

Best Middle School Student App

Best High School Student App

We hope everyone goes to the site and nominates their favorite apps. It really is a great way to show support for the developers of the apps you use.

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6Oct/11Off

Thank You Steve

Thank you Mr. Jobs. Without you Happy Maau Studios would not exist. It's because of you that we created this company. Put simply, each of us would not be here if it weren't for your vision and creative genius. We are long time Mac users and Apple has been apart of our lives long before there was an iOS or iPod. We want to change the world in our own way and with the devices and platforms that exist now thanks to you, we now have ability to do so from our own garages. We make our living developing for your products, and for us it's a dream come true to be able to bring math and education to so many people around the world so easily.

To quote Jeff LaMarche,

But I feel like an old friend has died. I'm fighting back tears, and maybe I should be ashamed of that.

But I'm not.

Steve died far too young. I think a few tears are in order.

- http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com

We feel the exact same way. Thank you Steve for changing the world and making our lives a little bit better in the process. Your impact on us is more than words can describe. You will be deeply missed.

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28Aug/110

iPad Gets a New Look

It's been awhile since we've posted, but we've been super busy. We've gotten a few emails since the last update regarding the iPad version of the app, particularly the look of the app. Well, we're very happy to say that the next iPad version is getting a facelift similar to the iPhone version. Check out the screen shots below. We've added a new favorites system, tools, printer support and overall a great new look. We're really sorry that it's been so long between updates. We're a small group and some of us have full-time jobs in the video games industry, which means little time to maintain the app during crunch time. Does this mean we won't continue to give our apps a lot of love and make sure that we're doing everything we can to make the best app we can? No way! We love what we do and we love seeing all the ways Math Ref has helped people over the years all over the world. We're super passionate about our projects and can't wait to get this update into your hands. Once Apple starts letting developers submit iOS 5 compatible apps, we'll get this submitted to them.

Let us know what you think of these screen shots. We're really interested to know what you all think about the new look. Comments are back online so feel free to use that or any of the social links in the sidebar. As always, have a great weekend everyone and we hope to hear from each and everyone of you!

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15Jul/11Off

Comments Temporarily Disabled

We're very sad to say that comments have been disabled for the short term due to an influx in spam activity. We're putting in place a new captcha and changing some of our settings a bit so they'll hopefully be returning soon. Sorry everyone. Email and any of the social services in the sidebar are still great ways of contacting us too so be sure to check those out. Have an awesome weekend everyone and we'll have some new Math Ref news for you next week.

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17May/110

Weekly Update

We're still working on the massive update to Math Ref and the even bigger news is that we're working on our first game too. First off, Math Ref. As you may know the update (2.3.4) for both the free and paid version of the app became available last week on the App Store, so if you haven't updated we really hope you do. With every update we need to hear from you guys to know what we're getting right and what needs work. You don't have to write a review even giving us stars helps. So, if you have a second head over to the App Store and rate http://tunes.apple.com/us/app/math-ref/id301384057?mt=8">Math Ref and/or Math Ref Free. Also, in Math Ref news we'd like to bring to everyone's attention this cool little site http://sumtimesrational.com/. These guys are some Math Ref users who reached out to us and, full disclosure here, we're looking to start a partnership with them that will allow some amazing new features to be added to Math Ref. Take some time and read their nice (unsolicited) comparison of Math Ref and Math Pro, another great math app.

A while back we mentioned that we were toying with the idea of making our first game. We'll earlier this month that idea became much more tangible and real. We're targeting an end of the year release and we'll be posting demo builds on the site for you all to try out and give us feedback on before we release it to the world. We've got so much planned for this year and next and just want to say thank you so much for all your support.

Comments and criticisms are always welcome so either leave them below or contact us using any of the links in the sidebar. Have an awesome week everyone!

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8May/110

Happy Mother’s Day and Some Math Ref News

Hey everyone, hope you had a great week and Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there. It's been a rather busy week for us and as you can see the new site is just about done. The mini-updates for Math Ref and Math Ref Free are out and both are now currently at version 2.3.4. We found out after approval that Math Ref Free had some additional content that is not used in the app taking up space. If you've seen the warning letting you know that you need to be connected to WIFI or through iTunes that's the reason since it's now over the 20mb cap. Since we're going to be doing the major update in the next few months, we're probably not going to submit an update to address this issue until then. That being said, if this is a major issue for anyone let us know and we'll do what we can to get an update to fix this. As for Math Ref, if you've updated we hope you find the time to rate the app. You don't have to write a review, just giving us stars lets us know how we're doing. Feel free to leave a comment below or use any of the links in the sidebar. Hope you all have a great week and thanks for all the support.

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4May/110

The New Site

Hello from the new Happy Maau website. Over the past few days we've been migrating from our old hosting provider to our new one and in the process moved over happymaau.com. You might have also noticed that we switched over to WordPress too and so far the transition has been pretty smooth. Our email accounts are all back to normal so info@happymaau.com is ready to answer any question you may have. Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for being patient with us over these past few days.

A tiny bit of Math Ref news now. We submitted Math Ref 2.3.4 to Apple, both the free and paid versions last week. So far the paid version has gone completely through the review process and is available, but we're still waiting to see if the free version makes it through too. This is not the huge update, we're still working on that, but we let some evil feature creep in which slowed us down a bit. We're going to remove a few things we had hoped to get in and will be getting the update out within the next few months.

Thanks again everyone for your patience and let us know what you think using the contact form or social links in the sidebar.

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