Category Technology

Νέα έκδοση του HRDL Widget

HRDLΑπό τη διάθεση του στο κοινό στα τέλη Μαΐου, μέχρι σήμερα το HRDL 'κατέβηκε' αρκετές εκατοντάδες φορές! Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ όλους για τα καλά σας λόγια και χαίρομαι ιδιαίτερα που το βρήκατε χρήσιμο. Αρκετοί από εσάς ζητήσατε ένα πιο ολοκληρωμένο Whitepages Widget. Υπομονή... έρχεται :) Τώρα στα δυσάρεστα: Το Safari 3.0 Public Beta σε Tiger που μόλις κυκλοφόρησε 'σπάει' το Hellenic Reverse Directory Lookup Widget όπως και πολλά άλλα (για διάφορους λόγους)! Το πρόβλημα με το δικό μου widget έγκειται στο search input field και το γεγονός πως επέτρεπα saved searches (υπάρχει το drop down μενουδάκι στα αριστερά που εμφανίζεται μόλις κάνετε κλικ στον μικρό φακό). Δυστυχώς με τη νεα προ-έκδοση του Safari η δυνατότητα αυτή δε λειτουργεί όπως πρέπει. Γι'αυτόν τον λόγο, εαν χρησιμοποιείτε τη β του Safari 3.0 κατεβάστε την έκδοση 1.01 του HRDL Widget από τη σελίδα λογισμικού.

'Leftovers' can be oh-so polished.

Yes, you guessed it. The most visible highlight of this year’s WWDC keynote is a brand spanking new web site for Apple.com. That’s it folks. Nothing to see here. Move along now. Or is it? More seriously, I bet the average Mac user is going to be baffled, still waiting for those über-features that were […]

ZFS for Leopard according to Schwartz [video]

That Leopard would support Sun Microsystems' ZFS was known for several months, since a screenshot from an earlier α release of the upcoming version of OS X was leaked late in 2006 showing support in the Disk Utility. At the time of that leak, several developers reported that 10.5 did not support ZFS as its default filesystem, meaning it could not boot from it or use it for the system partition. Well, now it can. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO claims that ZFS is going to be the default filesystem on Leopard replacing the ageing HFS+ Journaling. Great news for the Mac and further proof of the value that Open Source software adds to commercial products. [P.S.: Schwartz's video is quite interesting for FOSS and Sun customers too. I'll have to revisit the topic of Sun Microsystems and its relationship with Open Source in an article some time.]

Forthnet, η ελληνική Free;

Πριν από 6 μήνες έγραφα για τη παραπλανητική χρήση του Triple Play, που αποτελούσε βασικό θέμα της διαφημιστικής καμπάνιας της Forthnet. Η εν λόγω διαφήμιση έβαζε ‘λάδι στη φωτιά’, σε μια αγορά όπου η πρόσβαση στο διαδίκτυο παραμένει ίσως η προβληματικότερη στην Ευρώπη των 27 και τροχοπέδη για την ‘Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας’, ή όπως θέλει […]

Some of the biggest companies in the world have tried and failed

Siemens, Philips, Fujitsu. The iPhone is coming and Jobs' prediction for 1% of the global market within 2008 seems so detached from reality it's not even funny despite it coming from the Worlds_Best_Used_Car_Salesman. What I kept from this article by The Reg is the quote above. The mobile phone market is huge and very lucrative and over the years had practically every single electronics giant in the world giving it a try. Many of the best ones failed and merged (viz. Sony Ericsson), others just gave up (Siemens). Can Apple make it? Update: The new iPhone Ads are impressive, although the expectations are very high too.

Unlimited!

Yahoo! Mail unlimited storage is here.

Yahoo! Mail just started providing unlimited storage space for free to all of its users making good on their promise. Yahoo! seems to have invested quite a lot to Mail! (contrary to Microsoft which more or less hung Hotmail out to dry) and offers an amazing alternative to Google's Mail. If you haven't used the new Yahoo! Mail yet, now you have another reason to do so.

[Update: Microsoft just announced its new Windows Live Hotmail with 2GB of storage and a new AJAX interface. Sadly for them, it sucks.]

Αδεσμοποίητος Βρογχος και Downtime.

Προ 40 περίπου ημερών δημοσιεύθηκε στο ΦΕΚ (620/Β/25-4-2007) η απόφαση της ΕΕΤΤ σχετικά με την Προσφορά Αναφοράς (RUO) του ΟΤΕ για την διάθεση LLU γραμμών. Ένα από τα σημαντικότερα σημεία του RUO, το οποίο έχω καλύψει και παλαιότερα είναι η ρύθμιση της διαδικασίας μετάβασης μεταξύ ΟΤΕ και άλλων παροχέων στις περιπτώσεις χονδρικής προς πλήρη ή […]

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft enters the multi-touch world with Surface. And what a pleasant surprise that is! The wireless interaction with objects placed on the 'table' is fantastic news and a true innovation as far as a finished product is concerned. Seeing the Microsoft promotional videos as well as the Popular Mechanics video embedded below I wonder what this will mean to companies like Wacom (and how they are going to respond to this) and to the many thousands of digital artists that will, sooner or later, get this amazing technology on their desks and workstations. Its exhilarating to see a company of this size (and reputation) accelerate the proliferation of such amazing technology, spur competition and lower the cost. At last something truly impressive from Redmond!

Hey, where's the GPS support, Google?

Google EarthIt was just brought to my attention that Google Earth Plus for Linux does not have any support for GPS devices whatsoever, despite this being one of its main selling points over the free version. Google advertises the four variants of its Google Earth product range (Free, Plus, Pro and EC) without making any differentiating remarks for the Linux, Mac OS X or Windows ports. There is no mention of this either on the GE product page or its help centre. A potential customer would almost certainly expect this feature to be present in all three versions of the software and as such misled by the product presentation by Google.