It has been a fantastic year with a new app, multiple app updates, a ton of fun learning and experimenting more with SwiftUI, and more multi-track remasters of my instrumental pop music. I am extremely grateful to everyone for your continued encouragement and support. It means so much to me. Wishing you all the very best this holiday season.
I dragged my Yamaha PSR-SX720 keyboard back into my office, connected it up to my iMac and fired up GarageBand once again as I continued my multi-track remastering / remixing / re-recording journey back in time through all of my previous AꓭBA / Benny Andersson inspired instrumental pop songs.
First stop was 2018 for some unfinished business. At the start of that year, before I put together enough songs for my “Ancient History” album (which I remastered last summer), I wrote another song. I had started working on it and hoped to release it last summer but as things headed into fall I wasn’t quite satisfied with the remaster (it was just missing something) and I had to get back to work on my apps so I set it aside. After a bit of work, I finally got a mix I’m happy with and “Twist Of Fate” is now available!
Next stop was 2017! My song “After Dark” is now remastered / remixed / re-recorded as multi-track and available! I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did working on it. I completed work on my “Starlight” album remaster and the entire album is now available! The album includes: “Starlight”, “Dance Into The Night”, “Nothing Lasts Forever”, “All Because Of You”, “When The Sun Goes Down”, “Kiss And Tell”, “Far Away”, “Summer Days”, “The Sun Will Rise Again” and “Burning Fire”. Hope you like them all!
Final stop (for now): 2016 to remaster / remix / re-record the 9 songs from the “Story Of My Life” album. I finished working on that and in doing so crossed a milestone of having over 50 of my 100 songs recorded and released in full multi-track with the new techniques! The entire album is now available! The album includes: “Flying High”, “Hold Me Tight”, “Someday”, “A Future To Believe In”, “A Letter To You”, “Trapped”, “Story Of My Life”, “All My Dreams” and “Puppet On A String”! Hope you enjoy them!
That ends the remaster / remix / re-recording journey back through time (for now). It was a lot of fun. I hope to resume the project sometime in 2026 starting with my 2015 “Travelers” album.
A huge thank you to everyone around the globe who has taken the time to listen to my music. As always, it is your support, likes on SoundCloud, and encouragement that keeps me going. If you enjoy my music and can afford to, please consider hitting the Support button and sending any amount you can (no amount is too large or small) and please continue to share the link to my songs with anyone you know who might also enjoy them.
New updates to all of my apps are now available on the App Store!
Finance 9.2 features over 60 changes in the code including better support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS 26 (adopting liquid glass throughout the user interface, added icons for menu items (in macOS), and regular / dark, clear, and tinted icons). Improvements in handling app data, iCloud syncing, sidebar performance, toolbars, search, and double clicking in lists (on macOS). Fixes for “Copy & Go” from account information and a minor issue with button enabling in category, credit, and debit label settings.
iKeeper 6.2.1 features over 40 changes in the code including better support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS 26 (adopting liquid glass throughout the user interface, added icons for menu items (in macOS), and regular, dark, clear, and tinted icons). Improvements in handling app data, iCloud syncing, tab bar (in iOS 26), toolbars (now including list status [number of records displayed] in iOS and iPadOS 26), welcome (icon adapts in dark mode), search, and double clicking in lists (on macOS). Fixes for displaying welcome instead of an empty list when filtering and/or searching returned no results*, and a minor issue with button enabling in product and password label settings.
Gradiance 1.2 features better support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS 26 (adopting liquid glass throughout the user interface - including frosted liquid glass backgrounds for the welcome and controls as they float over the gradient, added icons for menu items (in macOS), and regular, dark, clear, and tinted icons). Improvements in the controls layout structure for better sizing on all platforms, refinements to control placement in Point Settings section and changing the Options section to focus on the Controls Position (with a new tab icon as well).
The updates are free to existing users (as usual). I hope that everyone enjoys them. Thank you all for your continued support, it is greatly appreciated and helps me continue on this journey.
*I had missed a case where my fix for this didn’t work. The 6.2.1 update corrects this so it will work properly in all cases. My thanks to the user who reported the issue so I could track it down and fix it.