I am pleased to announce that we are releasing version 3.1 of ShopSavvy – code name: Mothra later today.  Our development team has been VERY busy since our 3.0 release last month.  Our latest version is the result of more than 340 commits to our SVN since 3.0.  Unlike our last release which was full of new features, Mothra is all about usability and bug fixes.  Here are just a few of the fixes:

• Improved memory management – some of you noted that ShopSavvy would crash unexpectedly.  We realized that we were not optimizing images well and as a result ShopSavvy would crash periodically.
• Usability improvement - we changed ‘title search’ to the default instead of ‘manual UPC’ entry.  Now if you can scan for a barcode simply select ‘use keyboard’ and you are asked to enter the title of the item you are searching for.  Hopefully this will increase the utility of ShopSavvy when we can’t find a UPC. (future improvements coming)
• New versus Used filtering – some of you complained that we showed used and new prices in the same results.  This created confusion.  We now offer filtering.  You can show just new, just used or both together.  Hopefully this helps.
• Wishlist improvement – many of you noted that if you added more than 20 or 30 items to your wishlist ShopSavvy would crash and you would lose your wishlist data.  Ironically, this was a result of our poor handling of images.  The memory management improvement fixes this.  Now you can add more than a hundred items to your wishlist without fear of losing your data.  (future improvements coming here too)
• Graphic improvements – you won’t notice, but we improved various icons, colors and images.
• Camera speed – you will notice the camera is now much faster.
• Price Alerts – you can now set price alerts in your native currency (previously UK folks could only enter alerts in dollars).
• Server Side Improvements – trust us, lots of improvements here.

Hopefully our beta testers (3.0.4 and 3.0.5) found all of the bugs. For those of you who participated in the beta – THANK YOU! Let us know if you find any problems with Mothra by emailing support@biggu.com – Thanks for your continued support!