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I suspect that got your attention. What does the latest update of Enigma have to do with Prom Dresses?

I got my first view of Sudoku 10,000 on a Nexus One a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't pretty. The graphics did not scale properly and playing the game was quite difficult as the pop-up screen had very small buttons at the higher resolution and it was, frankly, a pain to keep tapping the cell to get it to pop up.

So a redesign was in order. While the game maintains much of its original look, it should now scale a lot better and more importantly the way you interface with it should be a lot more intuitive and easier to manage.

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Today we are releasing a new feature in Enigma - "Save? Yes/No/Cancel".

Thanks for another great user suggestion. If you accidentally close the application, all the work on your puzzle is lost. This can be frustrating - I've done it myself (colorful language to follow).

With this new modification, using the "Back" key to exit a game that's in progress (intentionally or not) will prompt you, asking if you'd like to save the game before exiting.

You can choose:
- Yes - Save the game and quit.
- No - Don't save, just quit.

In response to user comments and suggestions, the save and resume features have been enhanced for Colossal Cave Adventure.

The original designers of this game weren't too keen on you being able to save/resume yourself to a better score. So this functionality was intentionally limited.

Now you can save/resume to your heart's content. Additionally, the Save/Resume commands were added to the menu for easier access.

For more details see the release notes and the Colossal Cave Adventure main page.

There are now over 800 puzzles for Enigma now.

Grab the update and Enjoy!

Marc Gunn is an acoustic folk musician based in New Orleans and has been a friend of mine for years. Earlier this year, Marc asked me to put together a cell phone application for his podcast. After some discussions, we decided to make available much more information that would be of interest to his fans - and those who will soon become his fans.

The App highlights his music, blog, Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, and his Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. We have plans for some exciting new features in the future.

The Android App Review Source's Developer Spotlight has featured us today for our Colossal Cave Adventure app.

Read the Developer Spotlight here.

In addition to the Text-to-Speech functionality recently released, Colossal Cave Adventure can now understand your spoken command. There are a few restrictions, of course. The magic words are not exactly easy to pronounce.

I don't know how useful this will be, but it does add a new fun dimension to the game.

Grab the update and enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yesterday we released updates to two of our applications:

• Enigma 1.9.0
• Colossal Cave Adventure 1.2.0

The Enigma update was suggested by a user and involves freeing up some screen space, which is particularly important when the soft keyboard is displayed. Now the Quote Source is hidden by default and can be shown/hidden using the hints. While hidden, you gain a significant percentage of screen space.

With this release of Enigma, I have added the ability to identify duplicates. Thanks to a great user request, the application will now show duplicate letters (same letter entered for different codes) as italicized.

Grab the update and enjoy.