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Hide it in a Zune!

At last the Zune finds its niche. Well, at least its 'shell' does. Oh and check out the FAQ on the right. :) [Update: For those that didn't get it, this is a gag. :) ]

Woz Interview

Those that like Woz might want to listen to this audio interview by Neofiles. He talks about a wide range of subjects, both pertaining to technology, education, segways and --- of course --- pranks among others. [MP3]

Λίγο πριν την iΜέρα

Βρισκόμαστε μερικές ημέρες προ της επίσημης πρώτης του iPhone, ίσως του πιο εντυπωσιακού και με βεβαιότητα πιο hyped gadget που έχει κάνει την εμφάνιση του τα τελευταία 10-15 χρόνια. Σε αυτό το άρθρο θα προσπαθήσω να περιγράψω τις δικές μου αναμνήσεις από τη πορεία της Apple και να τις συνδέσω με την νέα αυτή συσκευή […]

Like many successful revolutions, this one might come from the bottom.

John Gruber writes about the iPhone's support for Open standards and the reality of enterprise email that's still predominantly based on proprietary solutions by a handful of companies. 'Revolution' is a strong term for what's at stake here, but It will --- nevertheless --- be interesting to see if this will another case of the people forcing corporations to embrace/promote/develop superior, Open technology. Given the iPhone's appeal to the relevant demographics, I guess it might be easier than previously thought.

Apple may be forced to go retail-only in Europe [iPhone]

While Apple has found a willing partner in AT&T (Monopoly MkII in the making) in the States, the much healthier (and far more advanced) European market finds many of the company's demands unacceptable. A retail-only iPhone in Europe seems like a possibility for Apple, if no operator concedes. This will increase the device's price, but it'll probably mean an unlocked phone too; the fact that the iPhone is the archetypal 'form over function' Apple product and the fact that the competition in high-end phones is much more intense in Europe than it is in the U.S. is possibly going to limit how expensive the iPhone can get. And that, it seems to me, is A Good Thing.

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.]

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.