Category Software

Luxology modo 202

Luxology might be a newcomer to the 3D Modelling scene, but while the company was founded in 2004, most of its executives and a large number of engineers have a long history in the 3D industry, being the team the originally co-founded and wrote NewTek and its product Lightwave 3D. Their first 3D modelling product […]

WWDC'06: OSX Dtraced

XCode 3.0 seems nice! Graphical front-end to Dtrace included; Sun's dtrace is lauded as one of the most impressive dev/admin tools to appear in the last few years and Apple's adoption and integration into XCode is definitely well received. In related news, Apple published the intel kernel sources and introduced MacOSForge.org, a site for Mac OS X open source projects. Well done Apple!

Apple juice.

Apple CEO’s WWDC keynote was probably one of the least impressive for years, but there are one or two things that are of some importance: It’s payback time Judging from the attractive pricing of the Mac Pro (leaving aside the mediocre standard configuration Apple has presented the world with; Geforce 7300GT is surely not worthy […]

Routebuddy

Commendable Idea. Bad Implementation. Last week the first, Mac-only vector-based GPS application was released to the public; Routebuddy. The Carbon/OpenGL application fits in with OS X’s look and feel although it failed to impress me with its bog-standard aqua interface and mediocre icons/layout (see Usability). The developers advertise its support for TeleAtlas vector maps, one […]

GPS Πλοήγηση στην Ελλάδα

Πριν από χρόνια, όταν αγόρασα ένα iPAQ στη Βρετανία, πήρα μαζί ένα κουπόνι αγοράς λογισμικού το οποίο και κατανάλωσα — εν μέρει — σε μια εφαρμογή της εταιρίας Tomtom ονόματι Τomtom Citymaps London. Η εφαρμογή αυτή, όπως προδίδει το όνομα της είχε σε επίπεδο δρόμων χάρτη ολόκληρου του Λονδίνου, μιας περιοχής με έκταση 60×40 περίπου […]

The Collaboration API

I just read that Apple might include a Collaboration API in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. I have seen no information about the technical aspects of this (and it’s just an unreliable rumour), so my critique will remain rooted in past technologies Apple has released and their general approach to sharing their technology with the […]

Integrating Skype and Asterisk

What is Skype? What is Asterisk? The Skype/Asterisk Link Some final words Technology is changing the telecoms industry (and market) so rapidly it’s sometimes easy to lose yourself in the chaos, especially if you’re not interested/involved in the technology field. Telecom companies are typically manned by ‘traditional’ engineers/salespeople/managers that have no clue about (and no […]

Microsoft's JPEG 'replacement': The Unifier?

Microsoft is late in releasing a proprietary, closed, image format, but it certainly got there. Much as with WMA and WMV, Microsoft has long endeavoured a lock-in by virtue of media formats. Is the WM Photo format more of the same? Do we really need it? Is it going to spell the beginning of Microsoft’s […]

Το Ρομπότ-χειρούργος

Στις 18 Μαΐου και για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία, ένα ρομπότ-χειρούργος πραγματοποίησε επέμβαση καρδιάς από ‘απόσταση’ εντελώς αυτόνομα σε ένα νοσοκομείο του Μιλάνου στην Ιταλία. Τι σημαίνει αυτό;