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Archive for September, 2009
Blue screen of death from Android phone
Sep 19th
Who remembers WinNuke? I do! Give it your Windows target machine and he has to reboot. It happened in the late 90s and it was an embarassing problem that put at risk nearly all the Win95/98 machines on the net. Now, a Samba 2 flaw puts at risk Windows Vista/Server 2008 and Windows 7 machines with this service enabled. And this exploit can be ran from an Android phone, “thanks” to this app by Sinisterware. Use it responsibly and only for security testing purpose, please.
The 3D era of Android gaming is beginning
Sep 18th
SpeedForge 3D has been released (not on the market, since the developers are Polish and Polish developers can’t sell applications, yet).
I’m thinking to buy it and review as soon as possible… But they are going to release a demo very soon…
If you tried the game, leave a comment!
About the official Facebook app
Sep 14th
I’m not extremely excited with the new Facebook app (obviously for Android).
I appreciate the home widget and the clearness of the main view, but the notifications (messages and events, for e.g.) are simple links and then you open them with the usual browser. An Inbox integration feature would be really more appreciated. Anyway, this is so far the best application to get Facebook on our Android phone.
MediaRecorder vs AudioRecord
Sep 8th
You know, with the MediaRecorder class it’s easy to capture video from camera and audio from mic, but you have to specify an encoding format and an output file to store the byte stream.
Looking around, I see that the AudioRecord class allows to capture audio from the mic and “process” it without saving it to a file. I’m going to need this to detect if some sounds are getting produced by an user to the mic and how loud these sounds are.
Have you any experience with the using of this class? I’d like to go deep with that and maybe I will read documentation trying to get something, but if you already used it I’d be glad to know your results. Please leave a comment to this post if you can help me, thanks.
A World of Photo
Sep 8th
Michael Elsdörfer is a german Android developer. He has recently released a wonderful app called ‘A World of Photo’ that could have been, in my opinion, a good candidate for ADC2.
When you start this app, a world map is shown and when someone in the world (running the same application) will “select you” (spinning his phone), you will be asked to take a photo and send to him. So he can see you! Obviously you can do the same with him and with everyone online.
Well, we are used to all-around-the-world webcams but this app makes possible to get a peek of someone in every place of the world nearly in real time… I think it’s philosophically a great idea and I wanted personally congratulate with Michael for this!
Download the free version
Or the donate version
An ocarina on your phone
Sep 7th
Have you ever seen this video? It’s about a guy that plays its iPhone equipped with Smule Ocarina, a great selling app that make your phone sound like a digital ocarina. Due to multitouch lacking, we Android people cannot have something like that. So please, Google, accelerate the release of Donut and give us multitouch! :)
Great news for Android 1.6 and the new market
Sep 4th
It’s great! Officially Google will add seller accounts support for italian developers and it’s exactly what I was waiting for! The new market is going to introduce some really good new features, like the screenshots and a “promo text” for your applications. This feature has just been enabled but will not work until the release of the new market app, obviously. The look & feel is improved too. Watch yourself.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-news-from-android-market.html
These are news… thanks, G! :-)
Saldo Wind (for italian users)
Sep 2nd
[ITA] Saldo Wind è un’applicazione che ho fatto per ovviare “alla fatica” di chiedere manualmente il saldo delle offerte a Wind, mandando messaggi o chiamando i vari numeri disponibili. Semplicissima nell’uso, basta cliccare sull’icona e attendere l’arrivo dei messaggi con le informazioni richieste! Comodo se messo sul desktop come un widget!
[ENG] Saldo Wind is an application for italian users of the mobile carrier Wind that simplifies (just a click) the showing of the remaining credit for the various offers. Put it on your desktop as a widget!