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More or less what happens when you've got the hottest device around, you just announced a major OS upgrade and you decide to not use a CDN =) 
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More or less what happens when you've got the hottest device around, you just announced a major OS upgrade and you decide to not use a CDN =) Το AthensBook Blog είναι live.
Ο τίτλος νομίζω τα λέει ολα. Εκεί θα βρίσκονται από εδώ και πέρα σχετικά posts για την υπηρεσία, τις εφαρμογές κλπ. Τις τελευταίες ημέρες είχαμε κάποια glitches -- κυρίως με ευθύνη της Apple -- που δυσαρέστησαν αρκετό κόσμο με iPod Touch -- εξηγήσεις, λύσεις, σχόλια κλπ. στο blog. =)
Το Τριπλό Παράδοξο
Στις αρχές του 2007 έγραφα για τις αστείες, τότε, διαφημίσεις της Forthnet που μιλούσαν για Triple Play όταν ούτε καν Double Play δεν ήταν διαθέσιμο, για τη τραγική κατάσταση της ευρυζωνικότητος στην Ελλάδα σε σχέση με προηγμένες — στον τομέα — χώρες και, εν ολίγοις, το γεγονός πως εταιρίες και κυβερνήσεις των οποίων η ρητορική […]
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Change layer content in PS CS4.
Or rather, someone please change Adobe’s mind. Today I spent some time looking online for what’s changed in the latest version of Photoshop (CS4). Along with numerous improvements across the board, I stumbled on a number of posts in forums and a few blogs on the ‘Change layer content’ menu removal. This is unbelievably bad […]
An ISP is not a court.
The saga continues, with the music industry attempting to subvert the law in Europe and turn ISPs into policy enforcers and courts of law all at once. With ever higher profits in 2008, and a pretty grim record of accusing and prosecuting the elderly, single mothers with no computers etc. in the States, it seems like the music industry would rather hand the dirty job over to ISPs.
This is, besides illegal, pretty prone to error --- as history has shown. I'm really looking forward to the next settlement Eircom will reach, this time with wrongly-accused (and disconnected) individuals. Hopefully it'll be more than enough to compensate for their stupidity.
A Dotted-Zero Droid Sans Mono
For the programmers out there. Now that the controversy regarding the licence of the Droid font family included in Android is over --- and it's clear that the fonts are licensed under the Apache licence --- I am releasing a dotted version of the Droid Sans Mono, monospaced font that I am using for development (usually its either that or Liberation Mono nowadays). I prefer the dotted zero to a slashed zero in most monospaced fonts. More information can be found in the software page.
I used FontForge to edit the font, so --- since some of the hinting instructions are not supported by this application --- I've scraped them and used the built-in autohinter.
If you wish to use the modified font, they are --- of course --- also provided under the Apache licence, like the original.
As always, your comments are very welcome.
Happy 25th!
Today is the birthday of the Mac. And while Steve Jobs may not care about the past, a quarter of a century after its introduction, the paradigms made popular by the original Macintosh (and, arguably, the Lisa before it) are still very much relevant in the present and there's very little proof that they won't be in the near future.
The original Mac suffered from the same deficiencies so many Macintosh computers suffered over these 25 years since its introduction: low specification hardware (viz. 128KB of RAM), few upgradeability options, a closed ecosystem. Yet it also kickstarted an era of intense innovation and competition, perhaps the golden era of personal computing and marked the beginnings of the Mac's role in personal computing. While Apple's focus has drifted away from the Mac as its sole strategic product in recent years, the platform is today as important as healthy as ever. Happy Birthday Macintosh!
Image used under the GFDL licence. Originally by Wikipedia user Grm_Wnr. Τέλος Εποχής
Η ερμήνευση της — προσωρινής, έστω — αποχώρησης του Στήβ Τζόμπς από την θέση του διευθύνοντα συμβούλου της Apple ως ένα από τα σημαντικότερα γεγονότα της τελευταίας δεκαετίας στον χώρο της βιομηχανίας προσωπικών υπολογιστών σε καμία περίπτωση δε θα μπορούσε να χαρακτηρισθεί ως υπερβολική. Η Apple, μια εταιρία θρύλος που εδώ και κάποιες δεκαετίες ορίζει […]
Just The Same, If Not Worse
The OLPC project started with the best intentions of bright people. It got hyped beyond reason, first by some of its leaders (viz. Negroponte), then by gullible politicians and — at another level — by gullible idealists that failed to see what was in front of them. Throughout its history the OLPC was flawed; flawed […]