This week at Macworld | iWorld we're previewing something new, something for the iPhone… Say hello to our new app, Clear.

Clear is designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter. It's a beautifully-designed, gesture-driven app that we've created to improve on pencil and notepad for flexibly keeping quick, simple todo lists. Clear will be available in February on the App Store.

In the meantime, be sure to follow @UseClear on Twitter - and enter your email address on the Clear webpage to be the first to know when Clear is available.

If you're at Macworld, be sure to drop by our booth - in the OS X Zone, booth 228 #30 - to see Clear in action.

Clear is designed and built by Realmac Software, Milen.me and Impending.

We're thrilled to announce that Analog 1.1 is now available New in this version is the ability to adjust the intensity of your chosen filter with the Intensity Slider. We've also added three new filters (Insta, Lost & Found, Cape Town) and two further borders (Dissolving, Screen). There's also a few performance tweaks and fixes!

The new version is available now on the Mac App Store, so head on over to the Updates tab and grab it now!

Here's our shiny new 15 second ident that will be on display at Macworld/iWorld later this month.

See you there!

We've been incredibly busy over the last 12 months: alongside important updates to RapidWeaver, LittleSnapper and Courier, we launched Analog, created a stop-motion video, and even found time to get a bunch of t-shirts designed.

We also had some new faces join the Team: Damien joined us to work on LittleSnapper and Dave interned at HQ over the summer to work on both Courier and Analog. Oh, and just in time for the turn of the year the team avatars have been redesigned along with the company page.

Next year's going to be particularly exciting as we've been working on some awesome new things for 2012. Some you might be able to guess :-) but we've also got a few surprises for you - so stay tuned for the details on those over the course of the next 12 months!

On behalf of everyone at Realmac HQ thank you so much for your support, custom, and feedback over the last year, we truly appreciate it. We're incredibly lucky to be able to do something we all feel so passionately about, and we can't wait to share what we've been working on with you sometime in the new year!

Around 3 months ago we commissioned the very talented Harry Nesbitt to produce a set of new avatars for us – for those of you paying attention you may remember that we originally worked with Harry on some t-shirt designs earlier in the year.

I really didn't envy Harry when we started this project as some of us had been using our old avatars for around 5 years and had grown rather attached to them. Harry had to produce 8 new avatars that everyone was happy with, as you can imagine we're all very fussy and like to get things "just right".

After many iterations and tweaks we final got there and everyone here at Realmac Software couldn't be happier with the way things turned out.

You can see a slightly larger version of the group shot over on our redesigned company page.

Harry also supplied us with some simplified versions to use around "the internets" - You should see these popping up on the various social networks over the next few days!