Berkeley, California – Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.4 for iPhone
3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch.

VelaClock is a world clock with unique features and an easily configurable
user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, dawn
and dusk for three kinds of twilight (civil, nautical, astronomical), moon
phase and tilt, and much more. VelaClock is invaluable to iPhone and iPod
touch users who travel or communicate with friends and colleagues around the
world. VelaClock’s feature set makes it especially popular among
photographers, enabling them to find the magic hour, the time of moonrise
and the next full moon.

VelaClock divides the screen into two panes, the upper pane which contains a
list of cities and a lower detail pane. Each row in the city list displays
the country flag, city name, local time, day of week and a daylight bar
(which can optionally be hidden). The daylight bar gives the user a picture
of 24 hours of natural light (bright daylight, three kinds of twilight, and
night). It may be centered at noon or the current time. A thin white bar
indicates when the moon is visible.

The lower pane contains a detail area with one of three different panels of
information. A quick swipe of the finger will alternate between the three
panels.

Detail Panel descriptions:

1. First panel:
 - Countdown to the next sunrise or sunset and next moonrise or moonset.
 - Time of the next sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset.
 - Name of the current moon phase.
 - An image of the moon as seen in the sky above the currently selected
city. This image accurately depicts the moon’s phase, and the angle at which
the moon’s crescent appears to be rotated from the vertical. Because this
angle can change rapidly, it is updated once a minute.
 - Time until the next moon phase (new, quarter, full).

2. Second panel, for current day:
 - Time of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and three kinds of twilight
(civil, nautical, astronomical) for both dawn and dusk.
 - Azimuth of sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset. Azimuth (compass
direction) is specified in degrees, 0 to 360, clockwise from North.
 - Daylight duration in hour and minutes. Change in minutes of daylight
from the previous day.

3. Third panel:
 - Dates, times and images of the next four moon phases.

VelaClock 1.3 was reviewed by John Martellaro of iPod Observer and received
a rating of “Outstanding.” He said that “the US$3.99 investment is
worthwhile.” Read the full review here:
http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/38029

What’s new for VelaClock 1.4:
1. Allow the current date and time to be changed. This was a highly
requested feature. Changing the current date provides the ability to view
information such as sunrise, sunset and twilight times and moon phases for
any day in the past or future. This is useful for planning travel, outdoor
activities and photo shoots.
2. Display day of week below digital time for each city. This feature was
requested by several users.
3. Added check mark to selected row. Darkened background color of selected
row and detail area for better visibility of selected state.

Up to 50 cities may be added from a selection of:
- Over 500 built-in cities. Many more cities will be added in a future
release.
- Current Location. The current location is re-calculated each time
VelaClock is launched. This feature is compatible with iPhone 3G, the
original iPhone, and iPod touch.
- Home Location. Users enter a city name with an arbitrary latitude,
longitude and time zone.

VelaClock 1.4 is priced at $3.99 and is available exclusively from Apple’s
App Store.  Existing VelaClock iPhone app users may upgrade for free.
VelaClock 1.0 was released the first day the App Store was open and has
progressively improved with four significant updates.

VelaClock works with iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch.
VelaClock does not require a network connection to function.