Paolo Ardoino – ideas, programming, web and more…

Today I have released aSOS 1.0 ( project page ), my first application for Android based phones.

aSOS helps to protect you in risk and danger situations by alerting via SMS people that could assist you.

aSOS is my first application for Android, inspired to me by Claudia (my girlfriend). I would develop a tool that could help her in any risk situation by alerting me and her parents in a single click.

Suggest this application to your dearest and nearest ( girlfriend / wife / sons / sisters / parents / friends ), safety is truly important nowadays.

Now… suppose that your girlfriend or your daughter is walking alone in a street (perhaps by night) keeping in hand her Android phone, in any case of danger she could click on aSOS widget and you’ll be instantly informed of her situation so you could reach and assist her.

1.0 feature list

• Settings
  • Define a SOS message
  • Customize a list of people to alert picking numbers from your phone contacts
  • Choose if enable appending geo location to sent messages
• Widget: click on it in a risk situation and aSOS will automatically send a SMS to people in the alert contact list.

Coming features

• button that stops sending alert SMS (useful if you have clicked the widget for mistake)
• if networking (wireless or 3g is enabled) convert geolocation longitude and latitude in a precise road, city and country

Suggestions are welcome

In these days I was setting up my new backup system (based on Netgear WGT634U with a pair of USB hard disk as external storage) and I needed a command line script to backup all my Google Apps data.
My priority was to backup GMail and Google Docs (Documents) data. For emails I found a very useful tool called getmail4 but I had not the same luck for documents so I wrote a very simple php command line script based on Zend Framework GData API.
Now I release first version of php-google-backup only with this feature but I’m planning to extend it to GMail, Google Calendar and Google Reader.
Get the script!

I and my girlfriend Claudia have developed a cool Javascript Chemical Molecular Editor ( WebCME ) based on the Dojo framework.
It is in constant bugfixing and feature enhancement, but we are proud to announce that a first usable version of this tool is available.

Current features list:
* adding elements ( with automatic elements’ balancement )
* adding bonds ( single, double, triple, wedges, … )
* adding text ( useful for notes, … )
* lot of prepackaged structures ( amino acids, cycles, … )
* selected points rotation
* importing 2D .mol format files
* exporting .png images
* integrated periodic table

Next features list:
* quick buttons
* code refactoring
* exporting in .mol, .png format files
* arrows

Enjoy it, and help us to improve!

WBus stands for Web Bus and it is a simple all purpose method to get two or more clients (browsers) communicating using a web page as the communication channel.

Probably WarWide is one of that (web) applications that will never leave the beta release status.

Every month, we apply new changes, improvement, fixes and creates features to keep users playing and giving huge longevity to the game. These two weeks we have decided to focus our efforts on ( other than, as always, on bug fixes ;) ) strategic panel’s usability and on a new set of icons.

WarWide italian community clamoured along for a more friendly and simple interface for army creation/unification and resources management… we answered with an improved (and more intuitive) panel for these tasks.

Then, two friends of mine, offered their creativity to design a new set of icons for military units, buildings and technologies … the result has been very impressive!
Thanks to Simone Poggi (aka motocarota ) and to FolkwineDelMark ( a WarWide player ).


(Note, all following images are © Involutive s.n.c http://www.involutive.com )


A subset of Motocarota images:

A subset of FolkwineDelMark images:

Finny and Fatty gallery

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