UPDATE: This promotion has ended. However you can still get Puzzle Blox for just 2.95 0.99 € in Google Android Market. Grab it today!

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* Please note that this offering is limited to 25 coupons, one per individual person. The coupons are handed out on a first come first serve basis. This offer will end Juli 1st (GMT timezone).  If more than 25 people apply then the coupon winners will be chosen randomly.
To participate in this tombola your Twitter account needs to be older than two weeks with a minimum of 20 people following you. This tombola is a game done just for fun of the participants. There is no legal claim to receive any promotion coupon code. The coupon cannot be exchanged by money and has no value other than the one described above. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

So if Eclipse and the Android SDK are free to use why pay a lot of money for Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office and all the other accessories you might need to create your homebrewn software? LostInTechnology.com has a nice article about the 20 Best Free or Freemium Alternatives to Popular Paid Software Programs:

Microsoft Office Alternatives

• Google Docs
• Open Office
• Neo Office
• Zoho
• gOffice

Adobe Creative Suite Alternatives

• Aviary
• Seashore
• GIMP
• InkScape
• NVU
• Picasa

Adobe Acrobat Alternatives

• PDFreDerict
• PDFescape
• PDFedit
• XPDF
• Skim
• PDFpen

Check out the full list over at LostInTechnology.com. There’s not much to add from my side… Maybe Paint.Net is worth mentioning as a quite good photo editing software for all you Windows fans

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 yet!

Have fun!

Bubble uses your phone’s accelerometer to determine the current angle. Dropping your phone can cause its accelerometer to malfunction, suddenly becoming extremely inaccurate or even stuck in one position. (I had this happen to me after I dropped my phone on pavement.) Luckily this does not necessarily mean your accelerometer is permanently damaged. A factory reset was able to correct this problem for me and for a number of other people who contacted me with similar problems.

If your angle is off by a large amount (mine was off by about 30 degrees) or stuck in one position with little or no change in value no matter how you hold it, your accelerometer is probably malfunctioning. Try testing other apps that use your phone’s orientation, like Amazed, Wikitude, or Google Street View with compass mode enabled. If you find similar problems with other apps, you should definitely try performing a factory reset on your phone to correct the problem. T-Mobile support will walk you through this process.

I would be happy to get some feedback from you on this. Thanks

So expect a lot new market place applications from now on