Signal - The Ultimate Remote Control for Your PC's Media Player

This is a bug fix release that primarily addresses issues with playing and displaying songs that contain extended characters, but does include a couple of useful improvements.

• The media library back button now remembers the last page it was on when navigating backwards, and can also navigate back into the previous search result.
• When playing videos through iTunes the videos are now played using the default playback preference (set in iTunes under iTunes > Preferences > Playback). So if the default playback preference is full screen or windowed mode, videos or TV shows started through Signal will now use this as well.

The full list of changes is available in the release notes.

With all the press around third-party apps being broken by the iPhone 1.1 update, there have been a few questions about whether or not Signal is compatible with the new firmware. The answer is absolutely yes. Web applications like Signal are supported by Apple and should always work. It is only native applications that require hacking of your iPhone that are being disabled.

While there are any number of cool things that Signal could do as a native application, this is the main reason it remains a web app. What Apple chooses to do with the iPhone is completely up to them, and it wouldn’t be right to sell a product that’s beyond our ability to support.

Signal was featured on Monday’s episode of GeekBrief.TV, where it was labeled “the killer app” for iTunes and the iPhone/iPod Touch. That’s quite a compliment! Thanks to GBTV for the kind words, here’s hoping Signal continues to impress.