Year 2006

Nikon D40

Nikon seems to have finally gotten the message and has been releasing decent DSLRs for a while now, competing well with the DSLR champion, Canon. The D40, being the latest (and, literally, smallest) low-end DSLR by Nikon, is a weird camera. At $599, its small size and decent feature set, the D40 seems to be a good compromise for young photographers or those entering the DSLR world from the low and mid end of digital compacts. Yet its resolution is relatively low, even compared to mid-range compacts, even though it sports some features not even found on the larger D50. I'm curious to see how it fares on the market.

The SpamMeisters!

It’s now been close to four months since I modified the Akismet plugin to show me the country flag and name for each Spam message received on this blog on the administration pages (using my improved ip2nation database). While it’s been (and was expected to be) a somewhat useless and geeky exercise, it proved that […]

Omnigroup Statistics

Here's a page where you can access the data Omnigroup receives from their Software Update module found in their applications. There's loads of statistics for your viewing pleasure and considering that some of their apps can be found pre-installed in many Macs, well you get the picture. I was impressed to read that Intel has surpassed PowerPC on their customer base in just a few months. Wow!

Ζούμε πάνω από τις δυνατότητες μας.

Ενδιαφέρουσα η δήλωση του κ. Γκαργκάνα, διοικητή της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος που συνεχίζει λέγοντας πως 'η ανάπτυξη δεν διαχέεται σε όλες τις κοινωνικές τάξεις' και είμαι σύμφωνος πως 'η κατάσταση αυτή δεν μπορεί να είναι αποδεκτή'. Τι σκοπεύει να κάνει; Τι ακριβώς μπορεί να κάνει γι'αυτό, ούτως ή άλλως; Ένας στους πέντε πραγματικά φτωχός and counting..

Sanity Prevails.

I have decided to postpone my purchase of a new Macbook Pro for another 3-4 months. I had a chat about this with several friends these past few days. The reasons? Several actually. Here’s why: As I’ve written before, I really (really!) dislike getting first-revision Mac products. They more often than not have either design […]

Safari rocks!

Or rather will rock (more), once Leopard is released early in 2007. I’ve been using Safari almost exclusively on my Macs for several years. It is a testament of the quality of the WebCore (and KHTML) engine and Apple’s UI design prowess. Safari has been consistently overall the fastest and most well-designed browser on the […]

Mac OS X Internals

Mac OS X took the unassimilated, thinking and computer-literate world by storm since its release on the 24th of March 2001. Its combination of commercial, high quality software applications, a state-of-the-art, ever-evolving and well thought out desktop environment and the solid Unix underpinnings that came with NeXT’s acquisition, gave it a significant part of its […]