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Facebook App and Facebook Mobile App!

AstroApp is going Social! We are very excited to announce that AstroApp is now available as a Facebook App and as a Facebook Mobile App!

With AstroApp on Facebook you can share your charts, post them on your Timeline and to your Facebook albums, create charts of your friends, generate linear transits for your status updates, use Facebook Chat for sending charts and just have fun with all the standard Facebook functionality integrated in AstroApp.

• To install AstroApp on Facebook, simply log in to your Facebook account and search for AstroApp or go to the Home page of AstroApp on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/astro_app
• As long as you are using the same email in your AstroApp and Facebook accounts, your existing AstroApp and AstroApp Facebook accounts will be automatically linked and kept in sync.
• AstroApp on Facebook is available for all Editions: Free, Traditional Basic, Pro, Oriental, and Financial Gold.
• Both AstroApp on Facebook and AstroApp Facebook Mobile are available in 8 languages.

But wait, there's more! You can now register and log in to AstroApp using Instagram, Google+, Twitter, Windows Live, LinkedIn, Amazon, and Meetup accounts (if you use the same email address for any of those accounts and for AstroApp).

Facebook AstroApp Features Overview:

1. Ability to share your charts and chart details.
2. Ability to post charts to your timeline and to Facebook photos/albums.
3. Use your Facebook photos as chart backgrounds.
4. Create charts for your friends who are using AstroApp.
5. Generate Linear Transits graph for your Facebook status updates.
6. Use Facebook Chat/Messenger to drag and send your charts.
7. Ability to log in to the standalone AstroApp using your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Amazon, MeetUp, Windows Live, and LinkedIn accounts.

We are very excited to announce a new release of AstroApp and that AstroApp is now available in Spanish!

New Features in each Edition:

Free, Traditional Basic, Pro, and Financial Gold:

1. Enhanced security: all editions and the entire site are now protected by SSL.

Traditional Basic, Pro, and Financial Gold:

1. New House system: Decanates-incognito (proposed by Licht).
2. Ten new fonts
3. New traditional wheel style.
4. Settings to define whether charts should fit the screen or should always appear smaller but perfectly round.
5. Ability to import charts from a wider range of programs that don't follow *qck format.
6. Improved time input validation.
7. Time Zone database and Atlas updates.

Pro and Financial Gold Editions:

1. Styles Selector with thumbnail previews for each style.
2. Three new traditional wheel styles.
3. More styles are now available in User Settings as default styles.

4. Enhancements to the Gauquelin chart.
5. The Halb condition added to the Traditional Dignities Protocol.
6. Two new chart types with 13 Signs and Reversed/clockwise Houses (with house numbering starting from IC or ASC).
7. Dispositor chains - ability to include modern planets is added.

8. Ability to export charts using Solar Fire 9 qck format.
9. Ability to export charts with non-English chart names.
10. More than 10,000 new Deep Sky objects and exosolar planets.
11. Internationalization support has been added to all AstroApp APIs. Now users have the ability to set the desired language for all API outputs.

Financial Gold Edition:

1. More than 30 USA companies added or modified.

Important Note: this is a major release and you may need to clear your browser cache. If you are seeing blank pages and/or getting any kind of errors, please log out, clear your browser cache, and then restart your browser.

Instructions on how to clear the cache can be found here: http://astroapp.com/troubleshooting/browser-cache

New Features in each Edition:

Traditional Basic, Pro, and Financial Gold:

1. Topical Almutens. 19 Almutens according to variuos traditional / medieval authors such as Bonatti, Montulmo, Ibn Ezra and others.

Pro and Financial Gold Editions:

1. Introducing the Almutens Designer!

• Ability to create almutens of any complexity.
• Ability to define your own scoring rules.
• Hundreds of objects are supported including planets, major asteroids, Arabic parts, prenatal lunations, house cusps and so on.
• Multiple types of derived points (rulers by sign, exaltation, triplicities, bounds and faces, antiscion, contra-antiscion).
• Ability to define different types of almutens based on chart's sect.
• Customizable calculation rules.

2. The Traditional Protocols section has been expanded with new protocols for Essential and Accidental dignities, Eminence (Valens), and Slavery (Bonatti) protocols.
3. Thema Mundi chart type.
4. Modifications/enhancements to Robert Zoller's Decumbiture/Crisis chart type.
5. 65 new Arabic Parts added, bringing the total number of available Parts to 150.
6. Hellenistic Lots table.
7. New user setting for VOC calculation rules (3 methods added).
8. New modern style Art Wheels based on the art by Helmut Licht.

9. New Page Designer components for Traditional Astrology.
10. Ability to change fonts for all chart drawings, graphs and diagrams.
11. New 13-signs Zodiac wheel style.

12. New House System: AM Sidereal Hours. This brings the total number of AstroApp house systems to 55!
This new house system is available for regular charts calculation, in the All House Systems table, in the All House Placements table and in corresponding Page Designer components.
13. Updates and enhancements to AstroApp APIs.
14. Time Zones and Atlas updates.

Financial Gold Edition:

1. More than 60 USA companies added or updated.

Important Note: this is a major release and you may need to clear your browser cache. If you are seeing blank pages and/or getting any kind of errors, please log out, clear your browser cache, and then restart your browser.

Instructions on how to clear the cache can be found here: http://astroapp.com/troubleshooting/browser-cache