onymous » Technology http://levi.nohakostudios.net designed and coded by Levi Ong Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Paranoia by Nohako Studios http://levi.nohakostudios.net/2009/10/paranoia-by-nohako-studios/ http://levi.nohakostudios.net/2009/10/paranoia-by-nohako-studios/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:16 +0000 phi http://levi.nohakostudios.net/?p=281 Hey, everyone. This is Philip, Levi’s good friend from way back in grade school. Levi has graciously given me this space [1] to plug our entry for Smart’s Mobile Developer Competition: Paranoia. Please do consider voting for us. Why?

Paranoia is an application for Google Android mobile phones that aims to assist in the tracking and retrieval of lost or stolen devices. Interested?

We provide tracking via GPS or Wi-Fi positioning, and Call/Text Activity Logging. This allows you to get the location of your phone, and see calls placed or texts made with it. How does it know?

You alert your phone either through our online web service, or through SMS text commands if you do not want to register with us. (We understand your paranoia too. ;)

Want to see it in action? Check out our YouTube video below:

I think you’ll agree that our app is awesome. So head on over to the voting site ( http://vote.smartvasnet.com/mobdev/ ) and vote for us!

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1 – Actually, I help run and manage this site, and provide the space, if you didn’t notice in his earlier posts. (Though Wil does help a lot.)

So vote for Paranoia from Nohako Studios, or I’ll pull the plug on the blog and throw his laptop on the ground, and you will never again get to read and enjoy his scathing indictments of whatever happens to annoy him.

I will also eat his face. ;)

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This squelching of communication about Apple’s products results in customers being unhappy or uncertain of the future value of their purchases, developers being too afraid to bet their livelihoods on a platform whose fundamental opportunities could be destroyed at any time, and suppliers being forced to inflict unreasonable or even inhumane restrictions on their employees.

»Secrecy Does Not Scale

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