Last night we uploaded a new version of Sign to the Android Market. The new version allows for user control over the gesture recognition to make it more or less strict. Hopefully anyone who has had issues with the recognition will have more success by adjusting the recognition to be more lenient.

We’re definitely interested in everyone’s feedback on this new feature as we are continually looking to improve the accuracy of the recognition engine. So let us know if Sign is working better for you now. Send us an email at simplyapplied@gmail.com.

Thanks for your patience while we temporarily removed Sign from the Market and keep an eye out for upcoming updates.

Due to a problem which occurred when we attempted to upload an update to Sign last night, we have had to temporarily remove the full version of Sign from the Market. We apologize to everyone inconvenienced by this; however, we are expecting to release an updated version to the Market within the next 24 hours.

Thank you for your patience.
SA

Never miss an important phone call because your volume is turned down!

Our second application, CritiCall, is now available in the Android Market!

CritiCall is designed to allow your phone to ring when you get calls from set contacts, even when your phone is set to silent.

Using CritiCall, you can select any contact as a “critical” contact and your phone will always ring when you receive a call from that person. Easy to turn off when you CAN’T get calls, and includes a customizable auto-resume feature.

Great if you have kids or if you provide professional services and can’t afford to miss calls from important clients.

Features include:

• Phone rings when critical contacts call you – even when set to silent/vibrate!
• Set as many “critical” contacts as you want
• Set custom times for each Critical Contact
• Groups
  • Unlimited number of groups (friends, family, work, clients, etc)
  • Unlimited number of contacts within each group
  • Custom settings for the entire group change the settings for all contacts in the group
• Quick and easy to turn off if you CAN’T have your phone ring
• Adjustable Auto-resume so you never miss a call
• Auto-resume override if you don’t want CritiCall to Auto-resume
• Volume control
• Customizable defaults to see the information you want to see quickly

There’s a free trial version which is fully functional, but which expires after CritiCall overrides the phone’s volume settings 5 times. The full version is $0.99.

Give it a shot and let us know what you think.

CritiCall Trial Version

Full Version ($0.99)

Some screenshots

Simply Applied is working hard on the final phase of development (graphics!) of CritiCall, an Android app which lets you set certain contacts as critical so you can be reached even if your phone ringer is on silent. Keep an eye on this blog and the Android Market for the launch announcement!

Just wanted to throw out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has purchased our speed dial application, Sign. We now have over 1,000 downloads of the full version and almost 9,000 downloads of the free version, and both continue to maintain a user ranking of over 4.0. In fact, Sign has a ranking of ~4.5 out of 5, so thank you for all the great comments and ratings too!

Your support has allowed us to continue to work to make improvements on Sign, and we are in the process of implementing some new features which we hope to begin to release in the next few weeks.

Thanks!!!

Simply Applied is currently working on an updated user interface, with a new look and color scheme, that we think you’ll really like. We hope to release an update in the next few weeks with the new graphics. Stay tuned!

*UPDATE*

First look at the redesign below, click the image for a larger view.