Category Technology
Ubuntu Unity: Just Bad.
The Saga Called Java and the Mac.
The Macintosh has always been unique in terms of software, ever since it came out in 1984. From the now almost disappeared ‘Resource Fork’ of MFS/HFS, the pascal slant of Mac OS releases up until the early 1990s, the multiple architectural and design transitions, the Carbon/Cocoa duality of early Mac OS X, ‘Classic’ and ‘Rosetta’, […]
The return of the DPI
Rollercoaster.
Για την ομάδα του AthensBook οι τελευταίοι μήνες είναι ένα rollercoaster από πολλές πλευρές. Μια αέναη ακολουθία projects, χτίζοντας υποδομές, λογισμικό, συνεργασίες. Προχθές ανακοινώσαμε τον κύκλο Private Beta για το Android, μια έκδοση για την οποία πλέον λαμβάνουμε πολλαπλά email την εβδομάδα — και ήδη μέσα σε περίπου δυο ημέρες από την ανακοίνωση έχουμε δεκάδες […]
Hellenic in the Ubuntu font
Ubuntu 10.10 is just around the corner. In this version some preliminary signs of Ubuntu’s design efforts are slowly showing, although there’s still a vast amount of work to do. One of the ‘new’ things in 10.10 as far as the user experience is concerned is the new Ubuntu font. I am very happy to […]
The Document Foundation
Blender 3D. Professional 3D graphics commoditisation in progress.
I’ve mentioned blender before; it’s one of the open source projects that I’ve followed for years, a project that I love and one that’s has consistently impressed me since I spent a weekend learning the basics of its operation in 2002. At Cosmical Technology, we’ve been using blender for quite a while; some of the […]
On Feeds and Fads
In 2004 ‘web feeds’ were becoming extremely popular in the tech community. People were keen to label ‘web pages’ as old, obsolete, clumsy and resource ‘heavy’. It was the time of ‘Web 2.0’, the time when web ‘surfers’ were gradually getting rid of Internet Explorer 6, when Ajax was starting to make its appearance on […]