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Happy Thanksgiving to All!


“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”
It’s a good saying, and we’ve prepared something delicious for you as well! We’re going to put all our educational and fun apps – Star Walk (both iPhone and iPad versions), Solar Walk (iOS and Mac versions) and Geo Walk on sale at the dollar off price from November 25th till November 29th!
Also we’re inviting those of you who are in love with Twitter to join our Stargazing Community uniting all Star Walk tweeting friends from around the world!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! Thank you for helping us to be where we are now!

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Star Walk Month of Astronomy

Star Walk Month of Astronomy last year was a big success among our fans and users. This year we decided to make this event a tradition and would like to invite you into a little astronomy adventure with us!
Who hasn’t looked up at the stars and dreamt of an outer space adventure, aliens and UFO? Most of us have! Vito team can make you a bit closer to your dreams. No, we won’t put you into the shuttle and send to space with NASA team. However, we’ll introduce you to the apps that will become a window to the whole Universe – with Star Walk you can touch the stars and constellations, find the ISS flying by, and with Solar Walk you can learn more about the Solar System, how planets revolve around the Sun, what a solar eclipse is and when it happens.

Star Walk Month of Astronomy is a great time to widen your knowledge in astronomy, chat with fellow stargazers, win prizes and just have fun. It will start on 14th of July and end on 12th of August.

To enter:

1. Share the link to this contest on any of your social profiles (Twitter, Facebook)
2. Give at least one correct answer to any of the questions posted during the Star Walk Month of Astronomy on official Star Walk profiles on Facebook or Twitter. (#starwalk).
3. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook or follow @StarWalk on Twitter to see the questions on time.

The more correct answers you post – the more chances you have to win one of the prizes. Each time you answer a question correctly your name will be entered for the weekly lucky pick for a $10 or $15 iTunes cards and the final pick for two $50 iTunes Cards.

Prizes:

1st week (14-21st of July)
Prize one $10 itunes card and five t-Shirts

2nd week (22-28th of July)
Prize one $10 itunes card and five t-Shirts

3rd week (29th of July till 4th of August)
Prize one $15 itunes card and five t-Shirts

4th week (5-11th of August)
Prize one $15 itunes card and five t-Shirts

Finalize the results on 12th of August
MAIN PRIZE: two $50 iTunes cards and five T-Shirts

Please read the Official rules.

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Star Walk app blends GPS tracking with Arabic star maps

Star Walk, Vito Technology and Abu Dhabi Grande Mosque Team have worked together to launch the applicationin the Middle East. The launch was a great success and the Arabic world seem to be very interested in Star Walk the first app of this kind launched in their language.

See a small part of one of the articles published on major newspapers in Abu Dhabi after the event :

”ABU DHABI // For centuries, the light of the North Star was the only way to navigate through the dark nights of the desert.

GPS has changed all that, making navigation available to everyone. Now, with the help of Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, a new smartphone application is offering to put those ancient star maps alongside it.

Staff from the mosque teamed up earlier this year with Vito Technology, a software developer, to modify and translate its existing astronomy application, Star Walk. (…)”

Full article can be found here.

More links about the news here:

Middle East Online

Zawya

WAM

It was a great honour for us to be invited by the Sheikh and his team to present our app and we would like to spread the news about their interest in iPhone educational app especially.

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Solar Walk for iPad Released!

We are happy to announce the result of elaborate work of our developers – Solar Walk for iPad. It is an improved version of Solar Walk for iPhone – an interactive Solar System Encyclopedia with smooth graphics, perfect navigation, and intuitive controls. If you use an iPhone version of the app, just download Solar Walk for iPad for FREE.

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