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Read it loud! Premium Version 1.1 available

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I just released Version 1.1 of Read it loud! Premium, my SMS reading app available on Android Market. You can now use profile managers like Llama and others that are able to communicate with other apps via Android intent system to activate and deactivate it automatically.

How to? Just configure your profile manager to send the intent

de.exesmobile.messagereaderpremium.ACTIVATE

to activate it. Or send

de.exesmobile.messagereaderpremium.DEACTIVATE

to – well I think you can guess ;-)

Thanks to Joe Kurut who sent me an email with the idea for that feature!

Tempolimit 5.9 available

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A few minutes ago I released Tempolimit Speed HUD Version 5.9. New features are long requested optimizations for the apps HUD mode like a full screen view of the driven speed (YES, without the speed sign and the title bar) and a high contrast mode.

Wonder if we will hit 50.000 downloads solely on Android Market by the end of the year (right now it is roughly 39.000 and counting). If you already use the app, just update, if you don’t and want to give it a try:

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.thomasmanthey.speedwarner

Let me know what features you would like for future releases…

 

 

 

 

Problems with an App? Comments and bad ratings do not help…

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Today I noticed a change in ratings of my application “Read it loud! SMS Reader Basic” – one 5 star rating had gone while a 2 star rating had appeared. Obviously a user had changed his mind after a bad experience with the app. Then I saw a accompanying comment – let me quote:

Worked great with my Evo 4G and my Evo 3D…and worked for a day on my Motorola Photon…but it stopped for some reason…love the app otherwise

I really would love to offer help, to find out what the error was and to correct it – but I can’t.

What most users do not keep in mind is that we developers cannot reply to comments and ratings, we cannot even contact the one who wrote that comment. So what can YOU as a user do instead of just writing negative comments and ratings? Well, if you like the app in general but had some negative experience – may it be an error or a function not working as expected or even a feature wish – then give us developers a chance to give you support and improve our apps. Just contact us – a suitable mail address can be found on every app’s market page. And then tell us what happened. Did you change something on your phone? Was there a software update? Did you notice anything when it stopped working?

We do lots of testing before publishing apps and invest lots of effort to produce quality software – so if you get an error or a problem then there is a good chance that we can fix it in a short time. Which means no bad ratings for us and our apps and better apps for you to use.

Agreed? Thank you!

Tempolimit – finished. What is next?

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Nachdem die App Tempolimit nun auch in meinen Augen das erste mal so richtig “fertig” ist – feature complete – wie man auch gerne sagt, geht es auf zu neuen Projekten. Was das ist, gibt es demnächst an dieser Stelle.

Was aber nicht heissen soll, dass es mit Tempolimit jetzt gar nicht mehr weiter geht – wer also Ideen und Wünsche für neue Funktionen hat, der schreibe einfach mal was in die Kommentare zu diesem Post ;-)

Danke Google, Danke Android-User, oder: Das Wunder der digitalen Distribution

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Als ich vor 15 Jahren damit anfing, Software nicht nur für mich, sondern auch für andere zu entwickeln, war ich froh, wenn sich überhaupt mal ein Abnehmer dafür finden liess – heute ist die Welt anders: Dank App Stores und der weiten Verbreitung mobiler Endgeräte, die auf diese App-Stores zugreifen, ist es heute möglich, ohne nennenswerten Aufwand in Marketing oder Vertrieb erstaunlich hohe Absatzzahlen zu erreichen.

Und somit freue ich mich heute, dass die App Tempolimit mehr als 5.000 Downloads alleine im Android Market erreicht hat.

Und deshalb: Danke an Google, dass ihr das möglich gemacht habt, und danke an die 5040 User, die die App bis heute heruntergeladen haben. Noch mehr Dank an die 2365, die sie auch behalten haben ;-) Und am meisten an die 39, die mit positiven Bewertungen und Kommentaren, wie auch mit Ideen zur Weiterentwicklung beigetragen haben!