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1. We have a Virtual Tour of Kauai Hindu Monastery. The icon at bottom, the black little of Nataraja will bring you to the Virtual Tour. Beginning at a entrance taking all you to Kadavul Temple all the way to the Iraivan Temple. They are panaroma of each location. And, looks fantastic!
2. There is a new section: Stories | Coloring with a new UI. One that takes you to email where it take to a copy of "your creation" that you can send to your friends.
3. Listen playing a new song or inspiration talk, you can go forward and backwards by five seconds if you Download the music.

1. We added Stories | Coloring!.
2. We added "News!" to the screen showing SivaSivaPortal (home).
3. We made excellent upgrades to the "Path to Siva".

1. LISTEN: It was a major upgrade. You can listen, search, and download the audio to "My Downloads". Use the Journal to go to any song/talk that has been downloaded.

2. JOURNAL: It has been upgraded. The place you go to get your audio, Hindu Calendar, Image Puzzle, Read a book, go to a website--any place you want to go!

3. READ: A place to download any of our 250 publications--in multiple languages! You can now use the Journal to read them the next day. Journal takes you back to the publications, where you left it.

4: PATH TO SIVA: It has been majorly upgraded. You can get back to Lesson 7, for example, in the Journal.

5. STORIES: Take a look at what we are doing: major stories that are "evergreen", published in Hinduism Today. Read "Himalayan Tons River Valley Temples", and the Journal takes you to the place where you left off.

6. SETTINGS: It got repositioned. The API keeps a library that works on all phones. You will not get locked out.

1. LISTEN: It was a major upgrade. You can listen, search, and download the audio to "My Downloads". Use the Journal to go to any song/talk that has been downloaded.

2. JOURNAL: It has been upgraded. The place you go to get your audio, Hindu Calendar, Image Puzzle, Read a book, go to a website--any place you want to go!

3. READ: A place to download any of our 250 publications--in multiple languages! You can now use the Journal to read them the next day. Journal takes you back to the publications, where you left it.

4: PATH TO SIVA: It has been majorly upgraded. You can get back to Lesson 7, for example, in the Journal.

5. STORIES: Take a look at what we are doing: major stories that are "evergreen", published in Hinduism Today. Read "Himalayan Tons River Valley Temples", and the Journal takes you to the place where you left off.

News! It is getting an "asset.zip" which includes to the random images and more. This "Expands" to 100% after which it displays the beginning of the App. We have a new Story books display and new Image Puzzle. We have Lesson of the Day, which has big font. Click on the "aA" feature. And a new way at get around through the Journal.

The Journal goes back to the section which was read. It will not go to the beginning of the book.

NEW AUDIO: All new audio module. You can go forward to the timestamp of a long audio. If today you listen to 15 minutes of an hour-long talk, tomorrow you can use the Journal or Favorites and begin where you left off. See Setting/User Guide/Audio

NEW STORY FEATURE: A story is a slideshow with article text/captions. Tap an image to see a panoramic view. Turn your phone on its side to view in landscape mode. Enjoy a story on India’s giant festival, called the "Largest Religious Gathering on Earth," complete with over 120 photographs.

NEW IMAGE PUZZLES: Have fun taking nine tiles/partial images, all mixed up, and putting them in order. Choose from three categories: Devas, Your Soul, Life and Nature. Once solved, the puzzle reveals a picture! And you can play again without going Home.

NEW DAILY LESSON: Now it will get bigger and better. There is an "aA" icon. Tap that for font resize: easy to read it on a small phone! You can go landscape and view a longer line length.
NEWS: On the Portal Module ("Home") a button shows up near the lower left of the screen: "News !" which gets the news, just as in comes in fresh from the server. If you click on the "News !" button, you will see the news. Then the "!" goes away, until there is fresh news. Then the notification comes up: "You have the latest news!"

NEW JOURNAL: All new means to keep track of the many modules.

NEW SONGS/CHANTS: Pandit Jasraj —we hosted him at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. He has beautiful songs and chants to Lord Siva and Lord Ganesha. Kulapati Kulagen Moonsamy—a Siva bhaktar who composes and plays popular tunes to Lord Muruga.

NEW AUDIO: All new audio module. You can go forward to the timestamp of a long audio. If today you listen to 15 minutes of an hour-long talk, tomorrow you can use the Journal or Favorites and begin where you left off. See Setting/User Guide/Audio

NEW STORY FEATURE: A story is a slideshow with article text/captions. Tap an image to see a panoramic view. Turn your phone on its side to view in landscape mode. Enjoy a story on India’s giant festival, called the "Largest Religious Gathering on Earth," complete with over 120 photographs.

NEW IMAGE PUZZLES: Have fun taking nine tiles/partial images, all mixed up, and putting them in order. Choose from three categories: Devas, Your Soul, Life and Nature. Once solved, the puzzle reveals a picture! And you can play again without going Home.

NEW DAILY LESSON: Now it will get bigger and better. There is an "aA" icon. Tap that for font resize: easy to read it on a small phone! You can go landscape and view a longer line length.

NEW JOURNAL: All new means to keep track of the many modules.

NEW SONGS/CHANTS: Pandit Jasraj —we hosted him at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. He has beautiful songs and chants to Lord Siva and Lord Ganesha. Kulapati Kulagen Moonsamy—a Siva bhaktar who composes and plays popular tunes to Lord Muruga.


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NEW AUDIO: All new audio module. You can go forward to the timestamp of a long audio. If today you listen to 15 minutes of an hour-long talk, tomorrow you can use the Journal or Favorites and begin where you left off. See Setting/User Guide/Audio

NEW STORY FEATURE: A story is a slideshow with article text/captions. Tap an image to see a panoramic view. Turn your phone on its side to view in landscape mode. Enjoy a story on India’s giant festival, called the "Largest Religious Gathering on Earth," complete with over 120 photographs.

NEW IMAGE PUZZLES: And a bug fix. Have fun taking nine rectangular images, all mixed up, and putting them in order. Choose from three categories: Devas, Your Soul, Life and Nature. Once solved, the puzzle reveals a picture. !

NEW DAILY LESSON: Now it will get bigger and better. There is an "aA" icon. Tap that for font resize: easy to read it on a small phone! You can go landscape and view a longer line length.

NEW JOURNAL: All new means to keep track of the many modules.

NEW SONGS/CHANTS: Pandit Jasraj —we hosted him at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. He has beautiful songs and chants to Lord Siva and Lord Ganesha. Kulapati Kulagen Moonsamy—a Siva bhaktar who composes and plays popular tunes to Lord Muruga.

NEW AUDIO: All new audio module. You can go forward to the timestamp of a long audio. If today you listen to 15 minutes of an hour-long talk, tomorrow you can use the Journal or Favorites and begin where you left off. See Setting/User Guide/Audio

NEW STORY FEATURE: A story is a slideshow with article text/captions. Tap an image to see a panoramic view. Turn your phone on its side to view in landscape mode. Enjoy a story on India’s giant festival, called the "Largest Religious Gathering on Earth," complete with over 120 photographs.

NEW IMAGE PUZZLE: Have fun taking nine rectangular images, all mixed up, and putting them in order. Choose from three categories: Devas, Your Soul, Life and Nature. Once solved, the puzzle reveals a picture.

NEW DAILY LESSON: Now it will get bigger and better. There is an "aA" icon. Tap that for font resize: easy to read it on a small phone! You can go landscape and view a longer line length.

NEW JOURNAL: All new means to keep track of the many modules.

NEW SONGS/CHANTS: Pandit Jasraj —we hosted him at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. He has beautiful songs and chants to Lord Siva and Lord Ganesha. Kulapati Kulagen Moonsamy—a Siva bhaktar who composes and plays popular tunes to Lord Muruga.

We have built a new home screen that navigates quickly across all activities in the app. And icons for Journal, Topic, Settings, which has a new User Guidel

We have upgraded the "personalization" of the app through improvements to the Journal. It now only saves the activities that you choose. This includes web sites, video and audio, and even bookmarks in our on-line books, such as Path to Siva. If you find a video or audio talk you like in “Surprise” but can’t watch or listen to all of it, you can now save in it to the Journal and return to it to finish later. If you download an audio file to "My Audio" you can save it to the Journal and return to it without a new download. As before, you click the star in a Journal entry to mark a specific activity as a Favorite which will then appear in "My Menu" in the pull down navigator.

A whole new interface for Stories has been added and will expanded even more later. The Pillars of Iraivan and the three books, "Dancing with Siva," "Living with Siva" and "Merging with Siva," are all included, along with others. We fixed a user conundrum in Path to Siva: now the top menu is visible and you can go back or make a bookmark from each lesson.

Go to Topics to view all the media available in various categories of our web site and bookmark each video or audio talk that you want to come back to.

We have made more screens responsive to the size of your device. And lastly—depending on the bandwidth available—the app is much faster now.

This is a bug fix to remove the Lexicon from the app because the latest upgrade on iOS broke it. Hopefully, we will fix the Lexicon in the version in a future version (1.6.3)

This is a patch release. Hopefully, it fixes bugs in iOS 13+ that broke the audio player on iPhone 7 and 8. We also changed to the controller to a Pause and Play button. We improved the Surprise module

Note: Apple has deprecated code for streaming audio and uses a new framework. As such this app will not play songs or talks on iPhone 8. It works from on iPhone 5, 6 and iPhone X, XR, XS. We hope to have a patch from the iPhone 8 as soon a possible. But it was important to get this release out for other models.

We have completely revised the navigation of the app. Based on users' suggestions it was simplified to a fast and easy to use menu. This has made the app more responsive. Three "Stories" are available on startup —three slideshows based on quotes from Yogaswami, Auvaiyar and Tirukural. You can leave the story at any time. When you come back to the home, it will pick up where you left off. New images of Lord Siva on the home screen are rotated over time. More upgrades on the Word Puzzle: "Reveal" now shows the quote for 2 seconds. Now many modules in the app are responsive and take the size of the phone that they appear on. Other small bugs and fixes were made.

We have completely revised the navigation of the app. Based on users' suggestions it was simplified to a fast and easy to use menu. This has made the app more responsive. Three "Stories" are available on start up —three slideshows based on quotes from Yogaswami, Auvaiyar and Tirukural. You can leave the story at any time. When you come back to the home, it will pick up where you left off. New images of Lord Siva on the home screen are rotated over time. More upgrades on the Word Puzzle: "Reveal" now shows the quote for 2 seconds. Now many modules in the app are responsive and take the size of the phone that they appear on. Other small bugs and fixes were made.

Bugs were fixed -- in the Listen module, when you tried to download music to My Audio, the app would quit. When going back to the home screen -- main navigation -- from Word Puzzle, the position of the buttons was shifted to the right. This has been fixed. Now there is much fast navigation across modules.

New Music Categories: We now include Classical Music and Popular Music categories in the Listen module. Popular music is defined by those who produce via mixers, electronic drum beats, sound boards etc. Classical Music typically uses some real instruments, may be done in studios or on stage by professionals. We can also now play high quality .m4a files.

We are pleased and very grateful that Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha gave us permission to use their music. Their famed Shiva Bhaktimala II has been added.

In Popular Music category we have Natchintani songs by Sanje Siva (Sanjeevan Sivakumaran) from London and songs Kulagen Mooneeswamy from Mauritius.

In the amateur category we have a beautiful new Carnatic singer, Uma Satkunasivam. You will enjoy her charming soprano renditions of Natchintanai. She kept the gamakam (complex Carnatic vocal ornamentation) to a minimum, so that you can follow along with her tunes.

A bug was fixed -- in the Listen module, when you tried to download music to My Audio, the app would quit. We hope this was solved. We also fixed a bug where navigation from one module the next would give you a blank, black screen. Now there is much fast navigation across modules.

New Music Categories: We now include Classical Music and Popular Music categories in the Listen module. Popular music is defined by those who produce via mixers, electronic drum beats, sound boards etc. Classical Music typically uses some real instruments, may be done in studios or on stage by professionals. We can also now play high quality .m4a files.

We are pleased and very grateful that Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha gave us permission to use their music. Their famed Shiva Bhaktimala II has been added.

In Popular Music category we have Natchintani songs by Sanje Siva (Sanjeevan Sivakumaran) from London and songs Kulagen Mooneeswamy from Mauritius.

In the amateur category we have a beautiful new Carnatic singer, Uma Satkunasivam. You will enjoy her charming soprano renditions of Natchintanai. She kept the gamakam (complex Carnatic vocal ornamentation) to a minimum, so that you can follow along with her tunes.

A complete new opening and interface to the Portal Navigation. The opening has content -- in this case a slideshow that has quotes from Words of Our Master (more "stories" to come in future versions)
Navigation to the Portals and Modules is available on two screens without scrolling
My Home has been added. If you
a) go to Journal
b) click an item as a "Favorite", it will be added to "My Home", so that you can navigate quickly to those items.

We have, hopefully, provided a very robust method testing the internet connection. The app tells you whether you can or cannot access certain content, without blocking further action.

Gems quotes are not saved to the Journal. But a "heart" icon has been added. If you like a quote. Click the heart and it will be saved to the journal. This was you can go back to meditate on that one quote. Click on it to make it a favorite.

The Word Puzzle will now accept multiple occasions of the same word at multiple locations. What this means is words like "the, and, of," etc. you can put the words at any location where they fit the grammar of the sentence. With the exception of a word with a period after it. They must go to the end to the sentence.

Path to Siva now as clear navigation between lessons.

Look, which dedicated to video, now opens automatically to landscape format.
Hindu Calendar or Hindu Panchangamhad several bugs. These were fixed
Although quitting an app is available on any device via the native system. Some users asked for closing app while it in. Now you can go to Settings and click "Close App."

The Hindu Dictionary is back in the app. (It was broken in iOS 12.) New indicators of whether you can access modules that required in you be online or not. Various bug fixes.

More features in Listen/Audio module. You can now save the Gem quote to look at the later. New Surprise Me feature. Quick disconnect if you have cellular data off of bad connection for Web URL. The Oct/Nov/Dec issue of Hinduism Today.

Include icon to show running Audio in the Listen module so that users can turn off the sound track while it is played. Fix a bug in the Search Audio.

Updates to the media data base, improved audio interface, Hindu Dictionary that available when off line. Hindu Panchangam for you area, improved stability for the journal (your history) and a My Data manager to allow you to see how much space your offline audio downloads (and in the future, books and modules) are taking on your phone,and to delete them if you wish.

Upgraded for iPad display, smoother navigation, various bug fixes.

Smooth scrolling, faster and direct navigation form one module to another with "in between" screen, more robust Journal/History, Surprise Verses allows you to stay in the same collection. Fixed several bugs in the navigation.