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The Million Dollar App
Jan 28th
Promote your product, website, message, application, game uploading an image to this worldwide accessible advertising space!
A single image. 1.000.000 pixels.
1 pixel = 1 dollar.
Download from the Android Market
- or textually search “the million dollar app“
- or download directly the APK file
FAQ
What is this?
It’s very simple: Try to make $1m (US).
Who are you?
I’m a computer engineering student who would like to get the degree with less things to worry about. Really… I’m going crazy o_O
Why should I help you?
I’m not begging for help, but I would thank you for the rest of my life. Beside that, I’m offering a real service. This application could (and it will, I’m sure) soon be the most relevant and innovative way to promote your products/apps/messages to the world.
How does it work?
What you see is a grid of 10.000 blocks (1.000.000 pixels). Each pixel is worth 1$. You buy pixels where there is enough space in the grid and … that’s it!
Can I buy a single pixel?
In a single pixel (1$) there is no enough information for anything. The minimum block you can buy is the 100×100 pixels block = 100$. The maximum depends on the place you are choosing to put your banner/image. If you are the first one to buy, you can virtually take the whole page paying 1.000.000 $ !!
What are you going to do with $1m?
I’m going to pay the rent for an apartment next to the university, books, tools and everything I need to have the right amount of tranquility for the studies. Then, I’m planning to raise up an Android software house to make good apps and games for this wonderful platform (thanks, Google). I will donate a consistent amount of money for charity causes to the people of “L’Aquila” and “Haiti”, both destroyed by an earthquake.
What else?
Nothing! Let’s fill this page and feel free to contact me for any questions.
GPSTracker e Instamapper – Accoppiata perfetta in versione Android
Oct 24th
Se non conoscete Instamapper, sappiate che è un servizio disponibile per più piattaforme mobili come iPhone, Blackberry e Android. A detta del team di sviluppo (e mi rimane difficile dare loro torto) la miglior piattaforma su cui abbiano sviluppato la loro applicazione è Android. Date un’occhiata a quanto dicono in questa pagina per farvi un’idea.
La possibilità di runnare applicazioni in background è uno dei punti di forza di Android e applicazioni come GPS Tracker fanno tesoro di questa potenzialità. L’applicazione permette di trackare il proprio telefono e di vedere il percorso effettuato in passato o in tempo reale. Ottimo dunque per ritrovare il proprio telefono smarrito/rubato, per trackare un telefono di un amico (sempre a scopi leciti ovviamente…) o per farsi un’idea di percorsi fatti in passato per i più svariati motivi.
L’applicazione è attivabile anche via SMS, funzione questa che lo rende estremamente utile. Ho già inserito l’app tra le mie preferite per Android.
Massaggi androidiani con Massager
Oct 9th
Tra le follie inventate dai folli sviluppatori Android (e io mi arrogo il diritto di catalogarmi tra questi) troviamo Massager, il perfetto strumento per massaggiatori professionisti e non. Ci si presenta con una bella interfaccia questa applicazione scarica-batteria e deteriora-vibrazione del telefono, provvedendo a molti “pattern” di massaggio ognuno con relativa scelta di intensità!
Vi serve solo una cavia e il gioco è fatto. Garantiti quei 5 secondi di divertimento. Scaricatelo da qui:
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.
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.
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! :)