This morning we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Strip for Windows, and Strip for OS X, our two newest data security apps. The programs provide a data editor on each platform for your Strip database, a capability that our loyal customers have been asking for since we first released Strip for iOS (née iPhoneOS) in 2008.

Strip for OS X is available exclusively from the Mac App Store, and for our Windows customers we set up our own purchasing portal at getstrip.com, where you can also get a good look at both programs, and Strip for iOS. They were all designed to look and feel like native apps, with a simple and familiar interface, and we think you’ll find them a pleasure to use.

Strip Sync for OS X and Windows will continue to be available for free at getstrip.com, although we do eventually plan to discontinue it as we move forward.

To help mark this release, we’re offering Strip for iOS at a temporarily discounted price—we’ve lowered it from $9.99 to $4.99 in the iTunes App Store.

This has been a long time coming, thanks for waiting! We look forward to your bug reports and feature requests. As always, support@zetetic.net.

Now then, it’s time to get hacking, we’ve got some big things planned for this Fall.

Earlier this week we soft-launched a preview release of Strip for OS X in the Mac App Store, and we’ve just pulled it from the store because we found a serious bug that could cause data loss for our customers. Only a handful of people noticed the app and bought a copy, if you’re one of those folks, here’s what you need to know:

Editing the name or icon of a category can cause the inadvertent loss of field data attached to entries on that category. We’ve got a fix, but we’ll have to test it thoroughly and then run it through Apple’s review team. In the meantime you can avoid the problem pretty easily, just don’t use Strip for OS X to edit your categories at the moment. Our apologies if anyone got bit—so far no one’s reported any issues to us. If you did manage to get a copy of Strip for OS X before we pulled it and you’ve found any bugs or issues, please get in touch.

Everyone else waiting on Strip for OS X and Windows to be available: please sit tight, we’re almost there and we’ll announce a proper release date soon.

Our time-tracking service Tempo will be undergoing some brief maintenance on Tuesday night at 9pm EDT. There may be a brief outage while the services are restarted.

We just released an update to Strip to fix a bit of a nuisance bug that had cropped up in the last version. We had enabled this setting for the application (UIRequiresPersistentWiFi) that activates the device’s WiFi connection on application launch, and keeps it open, rather than closing it after 30 minutes. We had done this in the hopes that it might solve some intermittent connection problems some folks had experienced trying to connect with Strip Sync on their local WiFi network. Anyway, there was a bit of a downside we didn’t see coming—every time you launched Strip and a WiFi connection was not available, you’d get this really jarring popup alert from the system, complaining about the absence of a WiFi connection. Very annoying in Airplane mode! It’s off now, sorry for the trouble.

Last week we experienced some problems with Tempo that were a bit of a nuisance for some of our customers. We needed to switch to a new charting library as the old one wasn’t holding up, but we ran into some issues with the first launch of those update. Our apologies that we didn’t catch them before making those updates live! We worked quickly to have it resolved by the next day, and things have been peachy since. If you happen to have a lot of people and/or projects in your Tempo account, you’ll notice the charts are quite a bit more useful now than they have been. If you run into any issues with the charts, please let us know.

There’s another update coming this Monday night to help out accounts that have a lot of projects and users, each page now has a search field allowing you to quickly pull up who or what you’re looking for. We’re currently working on more ideas for making Tempo more efficient and easy to use, and we’d love your feedback. Feel free to drop us a note in the comments here or get in touch via email.