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

I’m in San Francisco this week for the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, soaking up tips and tricks for developing on the iPhone, enjoying the company of fellow developers, and taking advantage of the huge number of Apple engineers and many other interesting people in attendance. The week has been a blast so far, and I’m looking forward to even more before heading home to apply everything I’ve learned. If you’re at the conference and would like to say hello, shoot me a message on Twitter - I’d love to talk to you.

Signal 1.1.2 is now available, and is a bug fix release addressing a compatibility issue with Safari 3.1.1 as well resolving a few other minor issues:

• Hidden iTunes playlists are no longer displayed within the media library
• Selecting speakers with a CD selected in the iTunes window now works
• Fixed playlist sorting to sort playlists starting with lower-case characters properly

A common request for the Mac version has been to move Signal to a menu bar icon so that it no longer takes up space in the dock. In the past most of the development focus has been on building up the web interface, so admittedly the Mac interface was put together quickly so that more time could be spent on making the web interface look good and perform well.

I’m happy to say that not only has your request been heard, but done one better - in the upcoming 1.2 release Signal is moving to a System Preference Pane. This allows Signal to run completely in the background with no UI whatsoever unless called upon. As an added bonus Signal will now start when your Mac starts, so it’s always available whenever you need it.