Techy and Fiberly meet

In July, Apple finally opened the App Store in iTunes where third-party developers could sell their applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The number of apps has been growing daily. I have to admit I was disappointed when a FileMaker compatible app showed up at the hefty price of $99. I had a discussion with the developer who cited development costs as the reason for having the most expensive application in the business category. But another developer came through with a simple application that allows import of .csv data, searching and sorting. CSV Touch is perfect to let me carry my lists of yarn shops, as well as sewing patterns, and I can search and sort. Perfect.

There are lots of free apps, too. And here’s where the Tech and Fiberly really converge. Quilt to Go has released StitchMinder, a stitch counting utility that allows you to track rows completed, pattern rows, increases, and decreases. Now I have to admit that I live dangerously and don’t use a counter, but I just think the very idea of StitchMinder is great and may have to download it just on general principles.