360iDev is a great conference for iPhone developers. This year we’ll be in full attendance. But we won’t only be attending, we’ll also be in charge of Tuesday night’s party. “The” party.

Activity of the night — Sumo wrestling for an iPad!

That’s right, sumo wrestling! Because what’s a good party without some humorous violence? We’ll have it all – sumo suits, a big wrestling ring, a referee (to keep things kosher), and even an announcer to keep the good times rolling.

To make this even better, the grand prize for the ultimate sumo will be a brand new iPad.

Like beer?

We need your help picking out which beer to serve at the party. Vote for your favorite beer on our iDev iBeer iPoll – check out this blog post for more detail.

As you may or may not know, appFigures is sponsoring 360iDev in April. It’s a great iPhone development conference in San Jose, and as sponsors we get to throw a really wild party on April 13th. The problem is that for a really wild party you need the right beer.

We’ve been kicking ideas around the office and can’t come to any sort of agreement, suggestions run from Arrogant Bastard Ale and Corona to Steel Reserve and paint thinner with flour. We figure if we can’t come to any sort of consensus, we should let our users and the conference attendees decide, and what better way to do this than through the internet-magic of twitter?

So here’s the deal: between today, March 23rd and April 1st tweet @appFigures with your beer suggestion and tag it with #ibeeripoll

We’ll take the top 5 most tweeted and retweeted beers and bring them along to the party, so get excited and may the best beer win.

Here are some suggestions (click to tweet your vote):

Earlier this morning we started noticing sporadic inability to access the App Store to get ranks data. So we started looking around and got our answer from the usual suspect – iTunes.

This informative windows popped up whenever we attempted to view some game categories:

This doesn’t seem to happen with all categories, just some and not all the time…

We’ll continue to keep an eye on the store with the hopes of it returning to normal soon.

What’s a major upgrade, you ask? Well, it’s one-half improvements under the hood to make your reports and experience even faster and one-half new features.

Let’s take a look:

Shiny Design

It’s been almost a full year since appFigures was born; so saying “this site’s design is so last year” was right on the mark. The result is a new look and feel for the site (and eventually this blog), that mixes a clean UI with the functionality you’re already used to.

P.S – We’ve been getting a whole lot of praise from our members about the new design over the last few hours and just wanted to say thanks!

Importing Monthly Free and Financial Reports

One of the most requested features by our users was supporting financial reports. We listened and now that’s part of appFigures.

Financial reports can be easily used in all reports throughout the platform and just like daily and weekly reports, they’ll be auto imported and stored in your archive.

PYMT File Support

Starting August 2009, Apple has started publishing PYMT files, which give developers information about current money transfers. The amounts are identical to the ones reported in the financial reports, the only difference is that a PYMT file shows actual payments heading your way.

We’re now auto importing them as well, and will email you a quick heads up when a new PYMT is available for your account. Think of it as a convenient payment alert.

Redesigned Country Report

Wouldn’t you like to see the geographical distribution of your sales? After all, it’s a big world and there are now 90 App Stores selling apps. We sure wanted to see it in an intuitive way, and a map came to save the day. Check it out!

Easy exporting capability

Another big user-requested feature was the ability to export data. We agree, and now you can export your by date, or by country reports to a tab separated file which can be opened by any spreadsheet application.

Timezone Support

Not everyone works on Eastern Standard Time. So, now you can change your timezone so that ranks accurately reflect your local time.

Sorting of data tables

We’ve made the reports UI even more flexible by making all data tables in all reports sortable. Click the header to sort by the column or the brave-at-heart can hold down shift and click to multisort.

A faster events management area

Events are a great way of tracking things that happen in the “real-world” by adding annotations to your charts. In the new appFigures we’ve brought them front and center and made the UI easier and faster.

For the past few months, our developers have been hard at work on all these goodies.  As you may have already seen, we finally rolled it out late last night, so make sure to check it out and let us know what you think!