Another late newsletter, but I think it was worth the wait! Not only are there a load of new features to report, there is also the incredible collection of Katsuhiko Okamoto puzzles. If there isn't enough information about his work below, be sure to check out his website here.

In the month of July, we managed to add 19 new items, modify 21 more, and add 123 new high-quality pictures. Special thanks go out to Katsuhiko who added ten, Adam who added three and updated four, Jeff Goetz and Matthew R Parry who each added one and updated one, Stefan Pochmann, Sean Boyer, Vadim and Andreas Nortmann who each added one, and nicky_uk, Loius, John Spilsbury and m0monga183 who each updated one.

The following is a list of the things that have changed on the site over the past month. You may already have noticed these changes in place.

1. Unique Item Counter. Added a new field to the Collection Manager which keeps track of the number unique items appearing in each collection. Thanks to Andreas Nortman for the suggestion.
2. New Database Fields. Added the Original Price and Patent Number fields to each item entry in the puzzle database.
3. Price Tracking System. Added a new system for tracking prices of all items in the database, along with over 700 records of my personal price tracking data from the past few years. Check out the Price Tracking System item in the Site Features menu. Contribute often to help keep the information current!
4. Newsletter Subscription. Finally got around to repairing the newsletter subscription method. It used to open in a new window (an artifact from the old frames design), and there was no "thank you" message. Both things fixed.
5. Smilie Images. Replaced the Network54.com smilie images that were still appearing in old forum messages with the new TwistyPuzzles.com versions.
6. User Uploaded Images. Copied all the user uploaded images from the TwistyMegasite.com forum to TwistyPuzzles.com and updated all the forum messages which point to them.
7. Clickable URLs. Updated all the old URLs from messages orginally entered on TwistyMegasite.com so that they automatically turn into clickable links. I now consider converstion of the old forums complete.

The following puzzles were added to the database during the past month. If you have a puzzle to add, click here! Click on any puzzle image to view its complete puzzle page.

		Grown Tower A fully functional 3x3x5.				Half Truncated 2x2x2 A standard 2x2x2 with four truncated corners.				Lift Cube A promotional cube for a defunct German Lemonade brand.
		Master Octagonal Prism A truncated 4x4x4.				Master Pyraminx An incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto.				Master Skewb Another incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto.
		Offset Skewb A Skewb with rectangular centers and four enlarged corners.				Phantom Cube A fully functional 3x3x4 by Katsuhiko Okamoto.				Pyracue A Skewb variation built by Katsuhiko Okamoto.
		Rhino Jogging This cheap knock-off is slightly larger than a Rubik's Cube and features a cartoon rhinocerous.				Rubik's Cube The 2000 version.				Specter Cube A fully functional 3x4x4 built by Katsuhiko Okamoto.
		Super 5x5x5 The 5x5x5 super group cube. Unlike the standard 5x5x5, each of the nine center cubies on each face has only one solved position and one solved orientation.				Super Cubix Virtually (if not exactly) identical to the orignial Square-1.				Vice City An official Rubik's Promotions cube for the game Vice City.
		Windmill Cube A 3x3x3 variation built by Katsuhiko Okamoto.				Wonderful Puzzler This version has a white box.				Wonderful Puzzler This version has a different black box.

Information on the following puzzles was modified (either added or edited) during the past month. Not all changes are minor, some are complete over-hauls and should be seen! Click here to find out how you can modify a puzzle. Click on any puzzle image to view its complete puzzle page.

		211x211x4 A bandaged 4x4x4 variation that defies naming conventions!				3x3x4 A bandaged 4x4x4 variation that tries to simulate a 3x3x4.				3x4x4 A bandaged 4x4x4 variation that tries to simulate a 3x4x4.
		Bandaged Cube				Blind Man's Pyraminx Meffert's 1981 black Blind Man's Pyraminx.				Camel Cigarettes Cube A nice promotional item for a not-so-nice company.
		Di-Uzzle Wonderful Puzzler				Dogic Probably the most sought after of all Twisty Puzzles.				Fruit Of The Loom A promotional item for Fruit of the Loom. Comes nicely packaged.
		Great Gears Return the coloured balls to their starting circles.				Hungarian Supernova Twelve colors. Smooth stickers.				Inversion Because of the restricting (yellow) axis, this is an edges and corners only puzzle and NOT another 3x3x3 sliding block puzzle
		Ivory Tower				Kep Korong - Cat & Dog Smaller than the Hockey Puck puzzles.				Kep Korong - E.T. Smaller than the standard Hockey Puck puzzle. This one features E.T., from the movie, "ET: The Extraterrestrial".
		Luminations				Magic Jack Slide the 26 cubes around to solve this puzzle in one of three ways.				Pyraminx The white 1981 Meffert version.
		Suppli Cube White plastic. Printed stickers. Shape is more complex than most 2x2x2 puzzles.				Worldmaster Masterball World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) Masterball.