SoftPortal Silver Award for Puzzle Blox

Puzzle Blox has received a silver award by the Russian web site and download portal SoftPortal.com! Very cool
Find the Puzzle Blox and Puzzle Blox Lite web sites over here:
http://www.softportal.com/software-11870-puzzle-blox.html [English]
http://www.softportal.com/software-11869-puzzle-blox-lite.html [English]
Thank you guys and I’m really happy that you like my game!

Review of Puzzle Blox at AndroidPit.de

AndroidPit.de, a very active German Android community web site, has posted a review of Puzzle Blox! The game was rewarded with 5 of 5 stars. Whoohoo! And the review features a very nice and appetizing video explaining the basic concepts of Puzzle Blox. (Note to myself: I have to do such a [...]

Android Market Observations Part 1

It is now eight weeks since the initial release of Puzzle Blox and Puzzle Blox Lite to the Google Android market…
Let me first state that the Google Android market is a great opportunity for all you independent software developers and people like me who do programming as a hobby. Since Apple launched their iPhone and [...]

20 Best Free or Freemium Alternatives to Popular Paid Software Programs

Android is an open platform and most developer tools can be obtained for free. That’s great especially for hobby enthusiasts like me and a lot of other developers out there
So if Eclipse and the Android SDK are free to use why pay a lot of money for Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office [...]

Minor update of Puzzle Blox – Version 1.2.4 released

This is just a very small update targeting especially new users of the Lite version. It adds a short description text if the level failed. Judging from various comments some people where confused when the “You Failed!” message popped up and they didn’t understood what went wrong. Besides adding this new message I also fixed [...]

Emulating PC on Android

Whooo… A picture is worth more than 1000 words…
Actually that’s a PC x86 emulator running inside of the Google Android emulator. It already boots into the Bochs BIOS but then crashes due to an OutOfMemoryException. Stay tuned for more updates on this
And please don’t ask about the performance. You don’t wanna really know [...]

Puzzle Blox Update Released

Today I have another update to Puzzle Blox for you!
What’s new?

Added new calibration function within the options menu! As every phone is slightly different so are the sensors. Using the new calibration and sensitivity settings you are now able to adjust the accelerometer and orientation sensors of your phone to your needs. No more blocks [...]

Accelerometer Problems

I’m working on the tilting issue some people are still reporting. Here’s a short excerpt of a posting over at ktk.bz, the creators of the “Bubble” app for Android. If you encounter issues with the tilting functionality of your phone please check out the following two paragraphs:
Bubble uses your phone’s accelerometer to determine the current [...]

No Internet, No Fun – Android USB Tethering

Doh! Since Sunday morning my DSL modem is gone. Seems to be related to the thunderstorms we had in our area recently. Bad luck. Time for me to check out tethering applications for my Android phone…
A quick search on my G1 brought up to promising results for use with non-rooted Android devices: PdaNet and azilink. [...]