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App to help in fight to rescue children

A NETIZEN has developed a free mobile phone application allowing users to upload snapshots of child beggars to an online photo gallery via their phones by one simple click.

The application designed for smart phones using the Android system has attracted wide attention from volunteers of an online child beggar rescue campaign, who believed that the software may help them carry out their work.

The application, called "Database of child beggars," allows the users to upload the pictures to t.sina.com from their cell phones with one click, saving the volunteers a lot of time as they don't have to transfer the photos from the phone to a computer and then upload them.

The application also allows the users to write down information about the picture, including the GPS data, the time and the photo descriptions.

The developer of the application, a 30-year-old man surnamed Wu from Shenzhen City, expects 3,500 downloads a day and promised that it would stay free forever - he also said he would never insert advertisements into it.

Wu is now working with a management team from Sina.com to create a larger, more sophisticated, database of child beggars.

He said similar applications for iPhones would soon be available.




 

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