Boring stuff. Mostly nonsense.
It’s coming. The ‘annual’ MWSF Keynote, presented, as it has been the case for ten years now, by Steve Jobs, Apple’s current CEO and co-founder, the man who’s widely considered to have turned it around after the ‘dark ages’ of the mid-90s is eagerly awaited by millions of Apple {fans, users, stockholders} all over the […]
Ok that’s it. My almost two year old Apple Bluetooth Keyboard officially sucks. Bigtime. It has sucked for a long time now, but I always kept postponing changing it. This is kind of weird, as I recall the thrill I got after using it for the first time, in May 2005. Back then it definitely […]
Δύσκολα, πανάκριβα, αργά. Η νέα φράση-κλειδί για τους αφελέις/αδαείς είναι το ‘triple play’. Τα στελέχη των ISP το πιπιλάνε χρόνια τώρα. Μόλις κατάφεραν να θάψουν μερικά χιλιόμετρα οπτικής, να στήσουν ένα δύο DSLAMs αρχίσαν και οι διαφημίσεις. Επειδή μας φλομώνουν στη διαφήμιση, έστω και αν εμείς κατα κανόνα δε βλέπουμε τη τηλεόραση τους, δεν ακούμε […]
Όταν ήμουν μικρό παιδί τις ‘παραμονές’ (και των Φώτων!) ξεχυνόμασταν παρέες στους δρόμους να πούμε τα κάλαντα. Όλοι το έκαναν. Όλοι το κάναμε. Κάποιοι επειδή ίσως τους πίεζαν οι γονείς τους, άλλοι για τη παράδοση αλλά και πολλοί για τα λεφτά κυρίως, ένα καλό συμπλήρωμα στο χαρτζιλίκι ή ένα ακόμη δώρο. Τα πρωϊνά αυτά ξυπνούσαμε […]
The last episode of the Ricky Gervais Podcast, starring Ricky Gervais (duh), Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington was released today on iTunes (and I guess Guardian Unlimited). I found out quite late about the Ricky Gervais Podcast, despite it being one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Actually, let me rephrase it: probably […]
I’m in London for a few days and I couldn’t avoid paying a visit to the Regent Street Apple Store. I’ve been in the market for a laptop for some time now and while my plan since late last year has been to get a Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro (C2D MBP), as soon as […]
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 […]
Okay, I’m almost done with this paper that I’ve been writing for a few weeks. Deadline is tomorrow morning, I think I’ll send it in later tonight. A whole lot of things to talk about though. Why .Mac could have been great I just ended my subscription to .Mac. No, I am not rich, and […]
In a previous article, I wrote how this year’s WWDC was probably the most uninteresting of all the WWDCs I’ve followed from 2002 onwards. In that article, I quoted a small part of an interview that Jef Raskin gave to the British newspaper, the Guardian. The quote was: “One only cares about getting something done. […]
Yesterday, Microsoft launched Zune, it’s latest attempt at dethroning Apple’s iPod as the portable übergadget of the future. While it looks like a decent attempt, compared to the previous ones by Creative et al., it is probably a bit too late unless Microsoft manages to lure both studios and consumers to its media platform very […]