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		<title>Review series: Οι iPhone εφαρμογές μου</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Κατά καιρούς γράφω για τα iPhone apps τα οποία χρησιμοποιώ, έτσι και τώρα. Χθες διάβασα το post του Πάρι στο οποίο αναλύει το δικό inventory του, θυμήθηκα πως είχα καιρό να γράψω κάτι σχετικό και αμέσως καταπιάστηκα. Όπως λέει και &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/iphone-apps-series/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Κατά καιρούς γράφω για τα iPhone apps τα οποία χρησιμοποιώ, έτσι και τώρα. Χθες διάβασα το <a title="Οι iPhone εφαρμογές μου — JavaPapo" href="http://javapapo.blogspot.com/2010/02/iphone.html">post του Πάρι</a> στο οποίο αναλύει το δικό inventory του, θυμήθηκα πως είχα καιρό να γράψω κάτι σχετικό και αμέσως καταπιάστηκα.<span id="more-1635"></span></p>
<p>Όπως λέει και ο ίδιος (και θα συμφωνήσω,) έχω περάσει από όλα μάλλον τα στάδια χρήσης apps: από αυτό που κατεβάζεις το μισό AppStore και έχεις 9 home screens με apps, κλπ. Fast forward στο παρόν και το iPhone 4S, πιστεύω πως έχω ένα ωραίο curated list από apps συνδυασμένο με έναν απλό και efficient τρόπο οργάνωσης αυτών.</p>
<h2>The Structure</h2>
<p>Το οργανωτικό σύστημα έχει ως εξής. 2 screens, το πρώτο με τα most frequently used apps και το δεύτερο με όλα τα υπόλοιπα categorized στους respective φακέλους, εκτός από το Newsstand και τα Settings.</p>
<p>Υπάρχουν κάποιοι &#8220;άτυποι κανόνες,&#8221; όπως για παράδειγμα, το πρώτο screen θα πρέπει να έχει 12 apps (3 γραμμές, 4 apps each) χωρίς να υπολογίζονται τα 4 στο dock (το οποίο έχει και στο τέταρτο slot τον Twitter client.) Υπάρχει μία εξαίρεση, η οποία επιτρέπει να υπάρχουν παραπάνω από 12 apps — προσωρινά όμως μόνο. Δηλαδή, το app του TEDxAthens βρισκόταν για την ημέρα του event στο πρώτο home screen για εύκολο access. Μετά έγινε uninstalled (sorry, folks!) Παρομοίως το LeWeb app βρισκόταν και αυτό σε ένα extra slot, αλλά στο δεύτερο screen.</p>
<div id="attachment_1658" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 274px"><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/homescreen2.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1658" title="Το homescreen μου" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/homescreen2-264x397.png" alt="Το homescreen μου" width="264" height="397" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Το homescreen μου</p></div>
<p>Όπως φαίνεται και στο screenshot τα most-used apps μου είναι το Messages, Calendar, Photos, Camera, foursquare, Dropbox, Maps, Messenger, Wunderlist, Instagram, Music, Soundhound και το Path.</p>
<div id="attachment_1659" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 274px"><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/secondscreen2.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1659" title="Το second screen μου" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/secondscreen2-264x397.png" alt="Το second screen μου" width="264" height="397" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Το second screen μου</p></div>
<p>Πάμε λοιπόν στο ζουμί, το δεύτερο screen. Εδώ υπάρχουν όλα τα υπόλοιπα apps, μερικά εκ των οποίων τα χρησιμοποιώ αρκετά αλλά όχι εξίσου συχνά. Ταυτόχρονα όμως, είναι απαραίτητα. Εδώ υπάρχει πάλι ένας κανόνας. Αν γεμίσει ένα folder, π.χ. το News, με τα 12 slots του και θέλω να βάλω ένα νέο app, θα πρέπει να διαγράψω αντίστοιχα αυτό που δεν χρησιμοποιώ συχνά, γιατί δεν θέλω να γεμίζω με παρόμοια folders (2 folders έχουν μόνο τα Apple apps) — και κατ&#8217; επέκταση, με παρόμοια apps. Αυτός ο κανόνας δεν παραβιάζεται!</p>
<h2>The App List</h2>
<p>Τώρα θα αναλύσω (σύντομα, υπόσχομαι!) όλα τα apps τα οποία έχω και χρησιμοποιώ. Σε όσα κρίνω πως χρειάζεται θα γράψω μια μικρή σχετική φράση.</p>
<h3>Dock</h3>
<p>1. Phone<br />
2. Mail<br />
3. Safari<br />
4. Tweetbot: μέχρι πριν λίγες ώρες εκεί βρισκόταν το official Twitter app. Μετά το update, ενώ αρχικά μου άρεσε, είδα πως έλειπαν core features (όπως Send to Instapaper.) Ήταν το Tweetbot και σε προσφορά ($0.99), δεν γινόταν να πει κανείς όχι. <a href="#footnote">[1]</a></p>
<h3>Home screen</h3>
<p>1. Messages<br />
2. Calendar: το sync μέσω iCloud με iMac &amp; iPad είναι όλα τα λεφτά. No need anymore για Google Calendar.<br />
3. Photos<br />
4. Camera: ποτέ δεν βρήκα κάποιο άλλο (Camera+, γκουχ) ώστε να το κάνει replace. Ούτε πρόκειται, ούτε χρειάζεται.<br />
5. foursquare<br />
6. Dropbox<br />
7. Maps<br />
8. Messenger: το ιδανικό messenger app για το Facebook inbox σου (είναι το official). Αρκεί να κλείσεις τα Push notifications των messages από το original Facebook app.<br />
9. Wunderlist: από plain.txt to-do list user, το μόνο to-do app το οποίο βρίσκω εύκολο, γρήγορο, και αξιόλογο για χρήση.<br />
10. Instagram<br />
11. iPod/music<br />
12. Soundhound: IMHO, καλύτερο από Shazam<br />
13. Path: το καλύτερο νέο app για iPhone που έχω δει. Not YASN (Yet Another Social Network) <a title="Path, το social ημερολόγιό σου — bloggable.gr" href="http://bloggable.gr/path-application/">όπως λέει</a> στο bloggable.gr ο @<a title="@dkalo" href="http://twitter.com/dkalo">dkalo</a>.</p>
<h3>Second screen</h3>
<p>1. Δύο Apple folders με μέσα τα Contacts, Calculator, Compass, Voice Memos, Stocks, Clock, iTunes, AppStore, YouTube, Videos, Game Center, Reminders και Weather, Notes, iBooks, Find Friends, Find iPhone, iTC Mobile (iTunes Connect — για developers.)</p>
<h3>News folder</h3>
<p>1. CNN<br />
2. ΣΚΑΪ<br />
3. Feedly<br />
4. Gazetta.gr<br />
5. Naftemporiki<br />
6. SuperLeague 11/12<br />
7. PAOK 24<br />
8. Instapaper<br />
9. Reeder<br />
10. The Verge<br />
11. Flipboard<br />
12. Zite</p>
<h3>Utilities folder</h3>
<p>1. ERSTE BANK Sparkasse netbanking<br />
2. 1Password<br />
3. Analytiks: minimalist και to the point Google Analytics<br />
4. Skype WiFi<br />
5. Glyphboard: web-app για διάφορα Unicode symbols (βελάκια, Apple icon, etc)<br />
6. Adobe Reader<br />
7. Google Translate<br />
8. Apple Remote (για το Keynote)<br />
9. Notifo: με δυο λόγια, send text/links/imgs/whatever από τον browser στο iPhone με Push notification<br />
10. iMathematics: edu list με διάφορα mathematical functions, πληροφορίες, κλπ<br />
11. Wikipanion<br />
12. ATTScanner: ο πιο γρήγορος και εύχρηστος QR scanner που έχω βρει. Της AT&amp;T.</p>
<h3>Photography folder</h3>
<p>1. 360 Panorama: της Occipital, καταπληκτικό<br />
2. Photoshop Express<br />
3. SocialCam: your Instagram for videos, hooked up with Facebook<br />
4. Photosynth: όπως το 360, κάποιες φορές καλύτερα panoramas, χωρίς Twitter sharing<br />
5. Batch: group photo-sharing app<br />
6. iMovie: το καλύτερο mobile &amp; on the fly video editing που έχω βρει<br />
7. Camera Plus Pro: όχι το Camera+, εξαιρετικό feature για video shooting: μπορείς να κάνεις pause και να συνεχίσεις, στο ίδιο file. Thanks to @<a title="sixtwelve" href="http://twitter.com/612gr">612gr</a><br />
8. Vimeo<br />
9. teleportd: πρόσφατο download, από Scoble, με δυο λόγια: location based, visual photo search. με μία λέξη: awesome.</p>
<h3>Travel folder</h3>
<p>1. ThessBook<br />
2. TripWolf<br />
3. Flight Card: πολύ ωραίο για frequent flyers, εξαιρετικό design και ευκολία στο να θυμάσαι πτήσεις, gates, departures &amp; arrivals<br />
4. AccuWeather<br />
5. Strava: είχα γράψει για αυτό πρόσφατα<br />
6. Mightybell<br />
7. Aegean Airlines: που και που έχω δει αρνητικά σχόλια για αυτό, προσωπικά μου αρέσει και το βρίσκω χρήσιμο<br />
8. Navigator: αντίστοιχο (όχι ίδιο) όπως της Aegean, αυτή τη φορά για όλο το Star Alliance<br />
9. Shine: πιο όμορφο από το AccuWeather, ίσως όχι 100% αξιόπιστο πάντα. Παρόλαυτα, κάνει καλά την δουλειά του.<br />
10. MyTaxi: το Taxibeat της Βιέννης και των Γερμανόφωνων πόλεων<br />
11. Trazzler<br />
12. Taxibeat</p>
<h3>Music folder</h3>
<p>1. SoundCloud<br />
2. TuneIn Radio: για τις στιγμές που θες να ακούσεις OFFradio από το iPhone/iPad<br />
3. Apple Remote: για το iTunes αυτή την φορά και όχι για το Keynote<br />
4. IMDb<br />
5. Overdub<br />
6. Band of the Day<br />
7. 8tracks: το official app του 8tracks.com<br />
9. Audium<br />
10. Bowtie<br />
11. TuneTug: για όταν έχεις party<br />
<em>Update</em> 12: OFFradio: το καλύτερο internetικό ραδιόφωνο τώρα και με το καλύτερο iOS app (released 14/12)</p>
<h3>Social folder</h3>
<p>1. Skype<br />
2. LinkedIn<br />
3. Tumblr<br />
4. Facebook<br />
5. WordPress<br />
6. Amen<br />
7. Gowalla<br />
8. Viber<br />
9. Yearly<br />
10. 4sqwifi<br />
11. Twitter official client<br />
<em>Update</em> 12: Oink: downloaded just now, like it so far.</p>
<h3>Games folder</h3>
<p>1. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2: για τους old school skaters<br />
2. Canabalt: εθισμός<br />
3. Chess Free</p>
<h3>Ski folder</h3>
<p>1. The North Face: Trailhead: app για κοντινά trails από την North Face<br />
2. Snow Forecast: το επίσημο του snow-forecast.com (best snow forecasting website)</p>
<p><em><strong>και τέλος</strong></em>, το Newsstand με τους New York Times και subscription στο WIRED και τα Settings.</p>
<p>Σχετικά με το πως διαλέγω να κατεβάσω ένα νέο app. Αυτό λοιπόν εξαρτάται από το εικονίδιο του app και το γενικότερο design που έχει, τον σκοπό-χρήση του, την τιμή του, αν το έχει κατεβάσει κάποιος φίλος ή γνωστός και έχει θετική άποψη, αν έχει γράψει για αυτό κάποιος tech blogger που διαβάζω και &#8220;ακούω&#8221; στις προτάσεις του ή κάποιο μεγάλο (tech) blog. Αν όλοι αυτοί οι παράγοντες ικανοποιούνται, τότε κατά πάσα πιθανότητα θα το κατεβάσω και θα μείνει για αρκετό καιρό σε κάποιο folder (ή και στο home screen αν είναι τόσο καλό,) μέχρι που να κυκλοφορήσει κάποιο άλλο που κάνει καλύτερα την δουλειά ή μου είναι άχρηστο ως προς την χρήση του.</p>
<p>Σύντομα θέλω να γράψω και για τα apps τα οποία χρησιμοποιώ στο iPad. Θα ήταν μια ακόμη πιο ενδιαφέρουσα λίστα, αν όχι εξίσου. Εσείς ποια apps χρησιμοποιείτε, πώς τα έχετε οργανώσει και τι συμβουλές ή recommendations έχετε να δώσετε;</p>
<p>—<br />
<a name="footnote"></a>[1] Ο φίλος @<a title="@kpvl" href="http://twitter.com/kpvl">kpvl</a> εδώ και μήνες μου έλεγε για το πόσο καλύτερο είναι το Tweetbot σε αντίθεση με τον official client. Αναγκάζομαι τώρα, με το καινούργιο version του δεύτερου να συμφωνήσω. Παρόλαυτα, Tweetbot vs previous Twitter official client: 1 &#8211; 1.</p>
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		<title>Thank you Mr. Jobs, a personal story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t want to write a post about Steve after his passing, I felt it wasn&#8217;t appropriate. The web was —and still is— talking about him, writing thank-you posts, eulogies, opinions and all. Yet, here I am writing about for &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/thank-you-steve/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t want to write a post about Steve after his passing, I felt it wasn&#8217;t appropriate. The web was —and still is— talking about him, writing thank-you posts, eulogies, opinions and all. Yet, here I am writing <del>about</del> for Steve; a thank you through a brief story of mine.<span id="more-1573"></span></p>
<p>Since a kid I was hooked with computers. The first I used was a Compaq laptop, black-and-white screen running Windows 95. On the third grade I wrote my first website, on the fourth I cracked the password my dad entered for my PC because I was spending kind of much time messing with it. I remember seeing an ad with the first iMac, I loved the computer — I didn&#8217;t know what it was, what even Apple was. And only two years ago  switched to a Macbook Air and a 27&#8243; iMac (last summer).</p>
<p>This post though is not about me. This post is about a story involving Mike, one of my best friends and his new iPhone. Mike, and the majority of my buddies —except two of them— was never a tech savvy guy. While I was on the internets since 6, he only discovered it around 14. He never owned an iPhone or iPod before. He had a clunky PC (hopefully he has a new awesome Toshiba laptop now) and your typical Sony Ericsson cellphone.</p>
<p>Anyhow, he just got a new 8GB iPhone 4. He felt he didn&#8217;t need a 4S, unfortunately there wasn&#8217;t any stock 16GB iPhone 4 left so he went with the 8GB version — for which he is absolutely happy about. Long story short, we arranged a Skype call, he&#8217;s in Thessaloniki, I&#8217;m in Vienna, to explain him how to download apps, what iCloud is, how to use the phone, what iMessages, FaceTime and Viber are, the iTunes Sync thing, the Remote and many more cool stuff. Remember: he is not a geek, an enthusiast or whatever — just your plain typical user with a new iPhone which he only knew the basics through using our friends&#8217; and mine iPhones before.</p>
<p>The first great thing about this story is that explaining him all that stuff was easy. iOS, the concept, apps, iCloud/Messages/et al were all understandable. He was stoked with iMessages, FaceTime and Skype. The great thing about him is that with the new iPhone he also got a data plan with his carrier.</p>
<p>A couple of days pass, and today while entering the subway I received a Viber call from him. I swiped to answer the call and after the usual chit-chat he said to me: &#8220;Man, this is awesome. I&#8217;m with 3G, downtown or wherever else I&#8217;d wanted to be, and I can call you, in an another country, and it doesn&#8217;t matter where you are, you have 3G too and you can answer my call and we can talk and communicate freely with no roaming or whatsoever costs, be it voice or text, depending only on our phones, this is so awesome.&#8221;</p>
<p>And then came a moment of clarity. I understood 100% what Steve Jobs was all about. Not that I didn&#8217;t before but now I had a living example right from my life. Steve made what no other could do. Technology for the masses. And I&#8217;m completely thankful for that to him. See, before using Mac OS X I was a Windows user, then switched for 3+ years to Linux and for a little while back again to Windows. But Apple and its products made finally sense.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not about hardware anymore; having the fastest CPU or the best GPU. Technology alone is not enough. The end-user wanted something that simply works. People didn&#8217;t know that, Apple made it clear. And don&#8217;t get me wrong: hacking, Linux, choices, customization and all the rest are darn good things — I don&#8217;t ditch them, I like them, It&#8217;s simply  not what the end-user wants.</p>
<p>So after all this yada yada: Thank you, Steven Paul Jobs.</p>
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		<title>Is Android really Open Source?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an ongoing discussion on the internets which lately buzzed a lot. Is Android really Open Source as Google claims or is it really as closed as Apple&#8217;s iOS? Depends on which side you are methinks, but there&#8217;s a pretty &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/is-android-really-open-source/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s an ongoing discussion on the internets which lately buzzed a lot. Is Android really Open Source as Google claims or is it really as closed as Apple&#8217;s iOS? Depends on which side you are methinks, but there&#8217;s a pretty much solid objective side where normal people can discuss and not flame each other.<span id="more-1049"></span></p>
<p><em>[Disclaimer: I'm an iPhone and MacBook Air user. I like Apple, I don't think Apple as a religion. I can still work in Windows + Linux and I admit it openly (read: </em><a href="http://twitter.com/apas/"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>) when Apple is bullshitting at us (that is, quite often lately.]</em></p>
<p>I was actually discussing it in Twitter with @<a href="http://twiter.com/mperedim/">mperedim</a> and @<a href="http://twitter.com/nassod/">nassod</a> where I was the Apple-side dude, @mperedim was the Android supporter and @nassosd was the pretty much neutral one. We finally decided to go for a beer (a geek&#8217;s best solution to everything.)</p>
<p>Straight to the point now. Eric Schmidt basically said</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have to use their development tools, their platform, their hardware, their software — if you submit an application, they have to approve it — they have to use their monetization and their distribution. This is not Open. The inverse would be Open.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And then might Jobs answered back,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The iOS isn&#8217;t &#8220;closed,&#8221; but &#8220;integrated,&#8221; resulting in a better user experience.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>My guess is that both Schmidt and Jobs are talking about the same thing — from different prospectives. Because they&#8217;re the same open: <em>not at all</em>, open.</p>
<p>Yup, you&#8217;ve read that one correct. I don&#8217;t think that Android is open. Or at least 100% open. But even if it was, let&#8217;s say 70% open that&#8217;d mean basically the same thing. It isn&#8217;t open.</p>
<blockquote><p>See, the problem is that how does Google get away with the “open” claim when the source isn’t public until major releases, and no one outside Google can check in?</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s what Joe Hewitt <a href="http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/27876055599">said</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>You can compare the Android “open source” model to Firefox or Linux if you want to see how disingenuous that “open” claim is.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s also what Jew Hewitt <a href="http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/27876257267">said</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Until Android is read/write open, it’s no different than iOS to me. Open source means sharing control with the community, not show and tell.</p></blockquote>
<p>Guess what? That one was <a href="http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/27878912110">told</a> by Jew Hewitt.</p>
<p>I totally 100% agree. Google&#8217;s and especially Android&#8217;s success was only because Android was open to the carriers. Carriers could can do whatever they want — just like HTC guys and the rest.</p>
<p>But hey, that isn&#8217;t open, is it? Otherwise Android wouldn&#8217;t even exist today. Where&#8217;s the public source tree and commiter privileges, huh? You&#8217;re right, there are none. Google offers only read/write &#8220;open&#8221; code (as Joew Hewitt said — gee, that can become a meme if I continue using it that much) instead of a full Open code like Mozilla or Canonical or Red Hat, etc.</p>
<p>Having said that, if you want to see real Open Source from Google you have only to visit Chrome OS. And Chromium/WebKit. Thats where real Open Source work is done and I respect it.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we&#8217;re getting bullshitted by corporate guys when the real Open Source is out there waiting us to contribute to. We&#8217;re getting distracted by flaming each other about which is the best OS and why and how much more open is Android than iOS or Ubuntu than Mac OS X.</p>
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		<title>Gmail on the iPhone: the best way to do it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, iPhone has out of the box GMail support and an automated wizard to add your account on Mail.app but what happens when you want something more, something a lot better? Yes, a lot. Just keep on reading. This trick &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/gmail-on-iphone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, iPhone has out of the box GMail support and an automated wizard to add your account on Mail.app but what happens when you want something more, something a lot better? Yes, a lot. Just keep on reading.<span id="more-1036"></span></p>
<p>This trick brings GMail to the next level on the iPhone. Keyword? (Almost) Real time inbox. How? Push notifications. But GMail doesn&#8217;t offer out of the box Push notifications unless you are using <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html">Google Apps</a>. Well, there&#8217;s a tap for that.</p>
<h4>Step 1</h4>
<p>Delete your GMail account from the Mail.app on the iPhone. Just browse through Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars → Accounts (select GMail) → Delete Account.</p>
<h4>Step 2</h4>
<p>Tap on &#8220;Add Account&#8230;&#8221; and select Microsoft Exchange. Yes, Microsoft — and yes, Exchange! (I assume you are already in iOS 4.x so there&#8217;s no problem having more than one Exchange accounts — in case you use already one. Otherwise, you have to upgrade your iOS firmware.)</p>
<h4>Step 3</h4>
<p>Add the required info:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address.</li>
<li>Leave the Domain field blank.</li>
<li>Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username.</li>
<li>Enter your Google Account password as the Password.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tap Next at the top of your screen.</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose Cancel if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.</li>
<li>When the new Server field appears, enter m.google.com.</li>
</ul>
<p>Press Next again.</p>
<h4>Step 4</h4>
<p>Select the Google services (Mail, Calendar, and Contacts) you want to sync. I recommend you selecting only Mail and/or Calendar (if you want Google Calendar and iCal.app sync). Clicking on contacts, Google Sync will sync your contacts, but it might delete your iPhone&#8217;s Contact Book and just import GMail contacts.</p>
<p>Tap on &#8220;Keep on my iPhone&#8221; for everything that appears, just to be sure not to delete anything.</p>
<h4>Step 5</h4>
<p>Navigate to &#8220;Mail, Contacts, Calendars&#8221; menu and tap on &#8220;Fetch new data&#8221;. Enable Push and you&#8217;re good to go. Also be sure to have IMAP enabled on GMail settings.</p>
<p><em>Now</em>, every email you&#8217;ll receive, it will be almost instantly pushed to your iPhone. You can check this out by yourself. It&#8217;s kick-ass.</p>
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		<title>DeskShade &amp; Locksreen bug/hack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, there&#8217;s a cool Mac OS X app out there called Deskshade with many great features and enhancments for your desktop. Although it comes with plenty of smart time-savers and other small thingies I use it only for it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/deskshade-locksreen-bughack/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, there&#8217;s a cool Mac OS X app out there called Deskshade with many great features and enhancments for your desktop. Although it comes with plenty of smart time-savers and other small thingies I use it only for it&#8217;s screen-lock capability, called DeskLock which actually is a similar to WinKey+L in PCs.<span id="more-897"></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s very handy since it catches sneaky family and co-workers red handed. <a href="http://macrabbit.com/deskshade/images/Lock.jpg">See a demo screenshot here</a>.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s a small bug in DeskLock.</p>
<p>At the &#8220;lock&#8221; screen (the left one at the screenshot) someone can actually see which applications/windows are running and in a nutshell, the whole desktop, due to a Expose and/or OS X&#8217;s Active Screen Corners (show the desktop) bug. Though, that someone cannot interact with any of the the windows, he/she can still see them in a pretty much detailed way.</p>
<p>To watch the bug in action you must have Expose and Active Screen Corners enabled (with the &#8220;Desktop&#8221; option) and of course, DeskShade installed. Simply lock the computer and then make the 4-fingers gesture for Expose and/or mouse over a corner to enable &#8220;show desktop&#8221;. Pretty much simple.</p>
<p>See a quick and short demo video I made.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13032024">DeskShade&#8217;s lock screen bug/hack</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/apas">Apostolos</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quick thoughts on iOS 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Apple gave us the iOS 4. Yesterday late night, I was testing it. Today, I&#8217;ll write about it. I updated through iTunes only after backing up my contacts and syncing them with Google. Now, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll sync &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/quick-thoughts-on-ios-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, Apple gave us the iOS 4. Yesterday late night, I was testing it. Today, I&#8217;ll write about it.<span id="more-871"></span></p>
<p>I updated through iTunes only after backing up my contacts and syncing them with Google. Now, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll sync again with Google, because Gmail&#8217;s contacts are now mixed with my phone contacts. That&#8217;s silly. Really, silly. The positive is that now, I have backups from both Gmail and phone contacts.</p>
<p>The download of the new OS was fast enough and I didn&#8217;t have to wait that much. This is good. The installation took a little more than (I) expected, but as soon as everything&#8217;s okay I don&#8217;t mind it.</p>
<h4>First feel</h4>
<p>The first feel was like &#8220;superfast&#8221;. Give me speed. Yes, Apple give us more speed. When you swipe trough springboard &amp; the home screens you feel like it&#8217;s a brand new phone. It feels uber fast. There&#8217;s also this new homescreen and lockscreen background that adds to this feeling.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/4723881768/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-872" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iosfour.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<h4>First changes</h4>
<p>First of all, Apple changed the icon graphics. Many of the icons have received very subtle tweaks that suggest Apple has done a complete re-drawing of the icon set, potentially for higher-resolution displays. The changes have in many cases added sharper lines to prior designs, such as the gears of the Settings icon and the rays of the Weather icon’s sun, but have also in some cases increased the color or contrast of small details in the icons.</p>
<p>Also, there&#8217;s this new dock that resembles the one found on the iPad, complete with icon reflections.</p>
<h4>Multitasking</h4>
<p>Probably iOS 4&#8242;s most awaited feature. I have to say that it&#8217;s awesome. With a double-tap of the home button the dock becomes a dock for already-running apps — whether you&#8217;re into another app or just swiping through your homescreens. There&#8217;s also this new fast app switching feature. It&#8217;s something like that: the “state” of the app stays in RAM but the app is technically suspended. That way it loads up faster than having to execute the app again from NAND Flash and loading to RAM and reading a saved state, also from NAND</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/4723249943/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-874" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iosfour_multitasking.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<h4>Folders</h4>
<p>Yeah, Folders! Everyone was so super excited about this but me. Anyway, it&#8217;s pretty cool I guess. But, personally, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll use it. Just tap onto an app, hold so they start bouncing and then drop the app onto another app. iOS instantly combines them into this folder and names it automatically with the category of the apps. Could become handy, but not for me.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/4723921282/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-875" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iosfour_folders.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<h4>The iPod</h4>
<p>iPod has also changed; for the better. You can now add/edit/delete playlists right from your phone. The contents of albums are now displayed by the iPod application with extra duration, release date, and artist information, plus a shuffle button and album art.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/4723283017/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-876" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iosfour_ipod.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<h4>Camera</h4>
<p>We&#8217;ve got digital zoom dudes &amp; girls! This is big news! You can pinch or tap-and-hold to activate the digital zoom feature, and a slider appears on screen to let you set the zoom level. There&#8217;s also tap-to-focus ability to video recording. This is whoop whoop! (click on the screenshot to see it&#8217;s real size — 768 x 1024, that&#8217;s big and I like it!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/4723289049/sizes/l/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-877" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iosfour_zoom.jpg" alt="" width="375" height="500" /></a></p>
<h4>Other cool stuff</h4>
<p>There&#8217;s been added Greek Voice control. That&#8217;s cool and I like it (though, haven&#8217;t used Voice control since the first day I got the iPhone). Also Location Services have been expanded to turn off or on specific applications’ access to GPS data. Additionally, Notes now supports wireless syncing with multiple accounts. Syncing appears to be supported for any IMAP-based Mail account, rather than being a MobileMe-specific feature. That&#8217;s also cool. There are also new features in the Photo.app. There is the Places tab, which show geo-tagged where you snapped the photos. People say that there&#8217;s also a Faces tab &amp; a rotate-photo option, but it seems that I don&#8217;t have them.</p>
<h4>Verdict</h4>
<p>Well, iOS 4 rocks big time. It feels like a new iPhone. It&#8217;s not just another update. It&#8217;s a whole new concept of the iPhone. If I were you, I&#8217;d stop by now reading this post and start updating. Despite I was with a jailbrake (only because of the SBSettings app — a cool home screen addon, like a dashboard), I updated and I do not regret it. You should do.</p>
<p>Update. Now.</p>
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		<title>Why I prefer the Macbook Air way more than my netbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I got back my Macbook Air after a two and a half weeks of service. See, the monitor had something like dead pixels and then it evolved to something like a complete monitor failure. All was black. Anyway, everything&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/why-i-prefer-the-macbook-air-way-more-than-my-netbook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I got back my Macbook Air after a two and a half weeks of service. See, the monitor had something like dead pixels and then it evolved to something like a complete monitor failure. All was black. Anyway, everything&#8217;s fine now. Point is, that the past weeks I had to use my old netbook. I recently mentioned about <a href="http://apas.gr/2010/02/05/review-macbook-air-vs-any-netbook-air-wins/">why Air wins</a> the netbook but this time is different.<span id="more-844"></span></p>
<p>There are three core differences (except the price) that make me say, yet again, &#8220;Air rocks big time.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Reason 1: The Screen</h4>
<p>Bigger. Brighter. Clearer. Better. That is, the Air&#8217;s screen. It may be only 13.3&#8243; comparing to the 10&#8243; of my netbook, but may I say you that this is a BIG difference. It&#8217;s like using a 24&#8243; iMac or something like that. The feel after the transition between Air and netbook or vice versa is remarkable. It&#8217;s not a Retina display, I know, but it&#8217;s the feel that relaxes your eyes and your focus. More workspace. More happiness.</p>
<h4>Reason 2: CPU and the such</h4>
<p>2.13Ghz of pure Intel Core 2 Duo power. Versus the Intel Atom N270 1.60Ghz. I guess, Air wins here too. Mind the graphics too. The Air uses a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M whilst on the other hand, the Turbo-X notebook is making cool things with a Intel GMA 950 GPU. Nevertheless, the RAM plays a significant role too; 2Gb of RAM instead of 1Gb is also a good sign. Summing up, hardware on the Air rocks big time, for it&#8217;s size capabilities.</p>
<h4>Reason 3: Software</h4>
<p>I&#8217;m not gonna talk about iLife. We all know it&#8217;s a great software suite/package. I&#8217;m gonna talk about how smoothly every single program runs in Mac OS X. No crashes. No lags. No nothing. Even the OS is pretty much like a &#8220;rockstar&#8221; itself. Your work-flow is never stopping. Plus that you can find many great apps such as Coda, Tweetie, Things, Grapher and many, many more. Basically, it&#8217;s the UX (User Experience) that&#8217;s a solid &#8220;win&#8221; for everyone.</p>
<p><em><strong>Concluding</strong></em>, I have to admit that once you go Mac you never come back. It&#8217;s a whole different realm of computers and technology. Of concept and ideas. Of design and user experience. Despite that Steve may becoming sometimes an ass, you can&#8217;t deny that Apple, nowadays, makes the best machines out there. Call it iMac, Macbook, iPhone, iPad, iWhatever; it&#8217;s a fact. And I highly recommend you becoming a switcher soon.</p>
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		<title>Must-have iPhone apps: the Ultimate collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I wrote for first (and last) time about free iPhone apps that rock and worth definitely a download. Actually, it was two times. Friends, who bought recently a cool shiny new iPhone keep asking me &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/must-have-iphone-apps-ultimate-collection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I wrote for first (and last) time about <a href="http://apas.gr/2009/08/08/must-have-free-iphone-apps/">free iPhone apps that rock</a> and worth definitely a download. Actually, <a href="http://apas.gr/2009/08/16/must-have-free-iphone-apps-part-2/">it was two times</a>. Friends, who bought recently a cool shiny new iPhone keep asking me the typical <em>&#8220;What should I download, buddy?&#8221;</em>. Things changed a lot since August 2009. New apps, new iPhone OS, the iPad. So, I figured out that I have to re-write this post.<span id="more-806"></span></p>
<p><em>[No app links, just search them in Appstore -- US or Greek one. Apps' appearance based on their appearance in my iPhone home screens.] </em></p>
<h3>Facebook</h3>
<p>Your favorite social network, of course. It couldn&#8217;t be off this list. Just FYI, disable the Push notifications. They (can) become quite stupid at times as they are still buggy. Be sure to enable Contact Sync, though. Rocks. Big ups.</p>
<h3>Meebo</h3>
<p>Is free, out and about. Completely wins big time eBuddy. Much more lightweight, efficient and ideal for a quick chit-chat on the phone &#8212; and fast as hell!</p>
<h3>Twitter for iPhone</h3>
<p>Your favorite <em>140-characters</em> network. And your favorite mobile Twitter client too. Successor of the famous Tweetie by (the former, indy dev) Loren Bichter, Twitter for iPhone remains the good old Tweetie but now is an official Twitter app.</p>
<h3>Dropbox</h3>
<p>Some people can&#8217;t live without Dropbox. Some people just love it. Well, whether you&#8217;re addicted to it or not, the Dropbox app kicks some ass. Best online backup &amp; syncing web-app now in your pocket, too. If you don&#8217;t know what Dropbox is find out at <a href="http://dropbox.com">dropbox.com</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM1MzYwOTk">don&#8217;t forget to sign up</a>.</p>
<h3>Skype</h3>
<p>I know you like it. I know you use it. You can Skype mobile now, through WiFi&#8217;s (and soon through 3G, too). Very cool app, has also the ability to chat via text &amp; dial real telephones.</p>
<h3>Foursquare &amp; Gowalla</h3>
<p>Location social networks. The two biggest and best. Both apps run great. Especially Gowalla&#8217;s app has very cool design. Check, in!</p>
<h3>Things</h3>
<p>The best Mac GTD app now in the iPhone. When in same WiFi network syncs with Things for Mac. Extra darn good design &amp; usability. If you&#8217;re a Mac user you probably know this already.</p>
<h3>ThessBook</h3>
<p>You might be leaving elsewhere, but most of my friends do live in Thessaloniki, d&#8217;uh?! This one, is a great GPS-aided location app which shows the nearest POIs (Points Of Interest). Free and great! If you live outside Greece, big chances are that there&#8217;s a similar app for you too &#8212; like Yelp for the States.</p>
<h3>Shazam</h3>
<p>I feel so nice that I have downloaded this one. You listen to a unknown -at that time- song in a bar you hangout with your friends. No need to walk and ask the DJ which song plays on. Just run Shazam on your iPhone and, whoop-whoop, win! Your track info such as artist/album/year is there for you along with other sharing options.</p>
<h3>Photoshop Mobile</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s so handy when you need to crop an image or add quickly some cool effects. Yes, ladies &amp; gents, it&#8217;s the official Adobe Photoshop app. On your iPhone. Free. Today.</p>
<h3>Articles</h3>
<p>The best Wikipedia iPhone article viewer. Elegant, fast &amp; well-designed. Misses some features like the contents table, but the whole package makes you forget it. Another great app from <a href="http://www.sophiestication.com/apps/">Sophiestication</a> &#8212; if you&#8217;re a Mac you&#8217;d know her from CoverSutra.</p>
<h3>Reeder</h3>
<p>You should download it only if you like a lot Google Reader and spend some time with it. Otherwise you don&#8217;t need the best Google Reader client on your iPhone.</p>
<h3>SnowReports &amp; The NorthFace&#8217;s Snow Report</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re savvy for the outdoors and especially the mountains and skiing (uhm, that&#8217;s me) you should download both apps. Both are free. With vast selection from ski-resorts around the world.</p>
<h3>Eurosport, Mashable, Engadget, Digg</h3>
<p>I mashed them up, because there is no point at writing separately for each one how download-able it is. Eurosport is for the sport fans. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re a computer geek you&#8217;d have seen probably, the other three websites a thousand times already.</p>
<h3>Remote</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re using iTunes as your music player whether you use Mac or PC, Remote is there for you. You only need to have the iPhone and your computer on the same WiFi network. Then you can simply control your iTunes library from your iPhone. It&#8217;s an Apple official app. Free.</p>
<h3>WordPress &amp; Tumblr</h3>
<p>You need them only if you blog. Just like the Reeder. Matt&#8217;s iPhone creation rocks big time. Tumblr, too.</p>
<h3>Pastefire</h3>
<p>With this tiny excellent app you can copy things from your computer to your iPhone and vice versa. Very handy and saved my ass a lot of times.</p>
<h3>Tipulator</h3>
<p>Counts the tip you should leave at a waiter/waitress. Simple and Sophiesticated. Worths definitely your download.</p>
<p><em>One more thing.</em></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out: AllRecipes, Epicurious, Where To?, Videoraman (especially if you live in Greece), Mild Elements &amp; Formulas &amp; iMathematics &amp; Pi Cubed &amp; Quick Graph (if you&#8217;re a student), <a href="http://apas.gr/2010/04/11/how-to-remote-access-your-computer-from-your-iphone/">iTeleport (and how to acces your computer from your iPhone)</a> , Bump and Cine.gr (same applies here as with Videoraman). Also, don&#8217;t show me your iPhone if you haven&#8217;t downloaded the one and only game for it, Canabalt.</p>
<p>Of course, there are lot&#8217;s of cool and great apps out there beside these here. Would you recommend anything else? Feel free to comment below.</p>
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		<title>Thoughts on Apple Universal Dock and Remote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Το έψηνα εδώ αρκετό καιρό να πάρω ένα docking base για το iPhone μου. Τελικά, το πήρα χθες από το Apple Demo Center, εδώ Θεσσαλονίκη, που δουλεύει ο Αντώνης, φίλος και expert Mac geek. (Σημ.: πήρε ήδη το iPad.) Φωτογραφίες &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/thoughts-on-apple-universal-dock-and-remote/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Το έψηνα εδώ αρκετό καιρό να πάρω ένα docking base για το iPhone μου. Τελικά, το πήρα χθες από το Apple Demo Center, εδώ Θεσσαλονίκη, που δουλεύει ο <a href="http://twitter.com/sigalakos">Αντώνης</a>, φίλος και expert Mac geek. (Σημ.: πήρε ήδη το iPad.) Φωτογραφίες στο τέλος του post.<span id="more-715"></span></p>
<p>Μπορώ να πω πως είμαι αρκετά εντυπωσιασμένος. Πρώτα απ&#8217; όλα, η συσκευασία. Κλασσική Apple. Κυρίως όμως, είμαι εντυπωσιασμένος για τα features του dock.</p>
<p>Μαζί με την συσκευασία περιλαμβάνονται και 5 ανταπτοράκια, ένα για κάθε μια γενιά iPod, iPod nano, Touch, Classic και φυσικά για iPhone. Το dock είναι μικρό, ελαφρύ, κομψό αλλά και στιβαρό. Η ποιότητα κατασκευής του είναι άριστη. Στην κάτω επιφάνεια είναι επενδυμένο με rubber υλικό, ώστε να μην κουνιέται και γενικότερα να μην είναι ασταθές όπου και να το αφήσει κάποιος.</p>
<p>Εκτός από το USB-out για τον υπολογιστή ή τον αντάπτορα για την πρίζα έχει και Line-out για τον ήχο. Αυτό με βόλεψε πολύ, αφού δεν είναι ανάγκη το iPhone να είναι συνδεδεμένο μόνο με τον υπολογιστή για να παίζεις μουσική, μιας και πλέον το καλώδιο των 2+1 ηχείων μου μεταφέρεται από υπολογιστή στο dock και από το dock στον υπολογιστή.</p>
<p>Αυτό όμως που με βόλεψε περισσότερο απ&#8217; όλα — και το θεωρώ key feature — είναι το <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Remote">Remote</a>. Το gizmo απλά τα σπάει! Δεν έχω λόγια να το περιγράψω. Μόνο για αυτό, αξίζει να αγοράσει κανείς το Apple Dock και όχι κάποιο άλλο άλλης εταιρείας. Επικοινωνεί μέσω IR (infrared &#8211; υπέρυθρες) με κάθε Apple συσκευή που έχει IR receiver. Πρακτικά σημαίνει με όλα τα Macbooks και iMacs και φυσικά και το dock.</p>
<p>Με το Remote μπορώ να ελέγχω το VLC όταν παίζει κάποια ταινία, το iTunes ή ακόμη να ανοίξω το Frontrow. Όπως στον υπολογιστή, έτσι και στο dock ελέγχω volume, next/previous, play/pause, fast forward/backward του iPhone. Χωρίς να είναι στο iPod.app, με το play, το ξεκινάει κατευθείαν και παίζει μουσική.</p>
<p>Το range του φτάνει τα — περίπου — 6 μέτρα.</p>
<p>Το μόνο πρόβλημα είναι όταν το dock είναι συνδεδεμένο με το Macbook Air. Εκεί το Remote μπερδεύεται και στέλνει σήμα και στα δύο. Έτσι όταν πατάω pause, γίνεται pause και στο Air αλλά και στο iPhone και μετά στο play αρχίζουν να παίζουν και τα δύο μαζί. Μικρό το πρόβλημα όμως.</p>
<h3>Συμπέρασμα;</h3>
<p>In the short shot, είναι best-buy. Ναι μεν, κοστίζει 49€ αλλά τα αξίζει μέχρι το τελευταίο cent, όχι μόνο για το design ή για το ότι είναι Apple αλλά κυρίως για το Remote. Όταν τα άλλα docks που είδα κόστιζαν 30+€ προτίμησα με 10€ περίπου παραπάνω να πάρω το Apple one — για πολλοστή φορά — λόγω το Remote. 2 στην τιμή του 1. Sounds like a fair deal.</p>
<h3>Photos</h3>
<p>(click για full resolution)</p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0071.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-721" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0071-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0073.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-722" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0073-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0074.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-723" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0074-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0074.jpg"></a><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0075.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-724" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0075-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0076.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-725" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0076-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0077.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-726" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0077-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0078.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-727" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0078-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0080.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-728" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0080-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Και τέλος, το iPhone πάνω στο dock (not mine).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-730" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/dockiphone.jpg" alt="" width="335" height="500" /><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icatus/3022468099/">iPhone 3G Universal Dock</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icatus/">icatus</a>, on Flickr under Creative Commons.</p>
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		<title>How To: Remote access your computer from your iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s great that iPhone can do lots and great things — and I don&#8217;t mean multitasking, folders and the such. I mean real, good and geeky things. Like, for example, accessing your computer remotely via Wifi, EDGE, 3G or even &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/how-to-remote-access-your-computer-from-your-iphone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s great that iPhone can do lots and great things — and I don&#8217;t mean multitasking, folders and the such. I mean real, good and geeky things. Like, for example, accessing your computer remotely via Wifi, EDGE, 3G or even GPRS and making it just like you were in front of your monitor using your keyboard and mouse. Believe me, it works.</p>
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<p><em>[This how-to is for Mac computers. If you have a Windows one, </em><a href="http://www.iteleportmobile.com/iphone/support/windows/step1"><em>click here</em></a><em> and follow (almost) the same steps as described. It won't be a problem. You can always check this and the iTeleport Windows how-to for any help you might need or anything else.]</em></p>
<p>All you need is to download buy the <a href="http://www.iteleportmobile.com/">iTeleport app</a>. It costs $24.99 but it sure does worth it. iTeleport is available on the iPad with the same price, too. After you downloaded it, follow these &#8211; really &#8211; easy steps to setup iTeleport and start using it.</p>
<h3>Step 1: Setup Screen sharing</h3>
<p>First you have to disable Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop — if they&#8217;re enabled at all. Then, <a href="http://www.iteleportmobile.com/download/Vine 20Server.v1.1.app.zip">download the Vine-Jaadu Server</a> application and run it. Enter a secure server password, make sure it says &#8220;Server running&#8221; and leave it running on the background.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-697" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vineserver.jpg" alt="" width="488" height="439" /></p>
<h3>Step 2: Install &amp; setup Jaadu VNC Connect</h3>
<p>Basically, Jaadu VNC Connect is a utility that runs on your Mac and autoconfigures port forwarding, dynamic DNS settings and also publishes your connection information over the local network so that iTeleport can auto-discover your computer. Download the app from the <a href="http://www.iteleportmobile.com/iphone/connect/mac">official site after accepting the licence</a> — or if you prefer, <a href="http://www.iteleportmobile.com/download/Jaadu 20VNC 20Connect.v2.0.4.app.zip">here&#8217;s the direct link</a>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-700" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vncconnect.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="360" /></p>
<p>Well, sometimes it just doesn&#8217;t work. Here&#8217;s an other (official) workaround to setup correctly all the required settings. This the way I did it. First, your iPhone needs to know how to reach your router and then your router needs to know how to reach your computer. That&#8217;s why we have to use <a href="http://no-ip.com">no-ip.com</a> (for to teach the iPhone how to reach) and setup a little of port-forwarding on our router (for to teach the router how to handle the iPhone request).</p>
<h3>Step 3: The other way [follow this only if VNC Connect didn't work for you]</h3>
<p>Visit <a href="http://no-ip.com">no-ip.com</a> and create a free account (it&#8217;s just under the login form). After you are a member of no-ip and logged in click on the &#8220;Add a Host&#8221;. This tool helps you by keeping track of your router&#8217;s external IP address no matter how often it changes — aka make the computer visible always on the iPhone.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-701" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/host.png" alt="" width="706" height="340" /></p>
<p>Just select a nickname for your computer — something like a username and then select a domain from the drop-down menu. I did select no-ip.org, simply because I think that the other names suck. Leave the other settings as they are and click &#8220;Create Host&#8221;. Download <a href="https://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php">the DUC client</a>. Now, simply add your no-ip account details, click refresh host and just tick the checkbox next to your hostname. That was it.</p>
<p>Now you&#8217;ve solved the first challenge — no matter what network you&#8217;re on, you can always connect to your router by entering your xyz.no-ip.org (or the domain you entered) address in Jaadu.</p>
<p>You have to port-forward now. The purpose of port forwarding is to take an incoming request from the external side (Internet) and <em>forward</em> that request to an internal computer in the network. You need to tell your router to forward port 5900 to your VNC server. If you do not know how, No-ip.com has <a href="http://www.no-ip.com/support/guides/routers/">guides for the other major routers</a> and so does <a href="http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm">portforwarding.com</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to set:</p>
<ul>
<li>Internal / Private IP of your computer: [*Your IP address]</li>
<li>Port to forward from / Private TCP Port: 5900</li>
<li>Port to forward to / Public TCP Port: 5900</li>
<li>Leave any UDP ports blank</li>
</ul>
<p>Finally, visit <a href="http://canyouseeme.org">Can You See Me</a> and type in your forwarded port (5900).  See whether it is able to connect or not.  If so, then you should be good to go. If not, then your router isn&#8217;t correctly forwarding to your VNC server. (This problem is unrelated to no-ip.com.)</p>
<h3>Step 4: Configuring iTeleport on the iPhone</h3>
<p>After all these settings and configurations you are now, finally, able to click on the iTeleport app and connect to your computer.</p>
<p>But before this, just a tip. It&#8217;s better to set-up two &#8220;computer remote profiles&#8221; for your machine. One to work for your home/work Wifi and the other to work as the real remote one, like connecting from 3G or from a hotel or something. In the first you can set-up the really good (and fast) settings like the best color, the best mouse response, the best refresh rate, etc. On the later, you can set-up a really good and not so heavy on network demands profile for better remote access.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-703" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/iphone.png" alt="" width="203" height="377" /></p>
<p>So, for the first profile, let&#8217;s call it &#8220;your-machine&#8217;s-name home&#8221;, you just have to run the app and click on the &#8220;Discovered&#8221; app. Hopefully, your computer will appear there just because you&#8217;re iPhone and you&#8217;re computer are on the same network. At least, that worked for me but I think it won&#8217;t be a problem. Now, click on the blue arrow icon and set a name for this profile, through the Security menu enter your password you typed in Step 1. Finally, because this is the home/work profile as I said, click on Advanced and chose for Colors &#8220;Server Decideds&#8221; and for the Refresh rate &#8220;Fast Refresh&#8221;. Also switch the Touchscreen Mode and Invert Mouse from &#8220;Off&#8221; to &#8220;On&#8221; as well as Cursor Momentum from &#8220;On&#8221; to &#8220;Off&#8221;.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re good to click &#8220;Connect&#8221; now and enjoy.</p>
<p>But! Before that you have to manually enter the profile settings for the second profile the &#8220;real&#8221; remote one. Go to the main menu of iTeleport and click on &#8220;Manual&#8221;. Click on the &#8220;+&#8221; icon, set the name to, let&#8217;s say &#8220;you-machine&#8217;s-name remote&#8221;. Below that, enter your hostname for address (your-machine&#8217;s-name.no-ip.org — or whatever you chose) and, as previously, the VNC password you typed in Step 1. To test this you have to be on a different network (Wifi). Either disable WiFi and use 3G/EDGE, or use a different WiFi network.</p>
<h3>Recap</h3>
<p>By now you should have two separate saved servers. One will be used for external access (when you are on 3G or EDGE, or on a different WiFi network). It will not work when you are on the same WiFi network as your computer. The other one will be used for internal access. It will only work when you are on the same WiFi network as your computer.</p>
<h3>Back to Step 2</h3>
<p>If Jaadu VNC Connect did work for you, in order to connect to your computer you simply have to follow the steps in the &#8220;Discovered&#8221; tab (the home/work profile in which iTeleport finds automatically your computer). Basically it&#8217;s same procedure.</p>
<h3>Final words</h3>
<p>You&#8217;re good to remote access your machine now. Remember! The Vine Server app has to run in order to remote access, so do not quit it. I made it to run on-startup and always be on the dock.</p>
<p>I hope you enjoyed this how-to workthrough for iTeleport. If you have any questions, problems or just want to drop a few words feel free to write a comment!</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way here&#8217;s the final result. The first photo is with the home/work profile (all the good settings) and the second one is the &#8220;remote&#8221; profile with the not-heavy-on-network-resources settings. I chose to screenshot <a href="http://apas.gr/2010/02/05/review-macbook-air-vs-any-netbook-air-wins/">my Air&#8217;s</a> background so that you can feel the difference.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-708" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/remotehome.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="320" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-709" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/remoteremote.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="320" /></p>
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		<title>8 must-have Mac apps, για κάθε νέο switcher και όχι μόνο</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Πάνε 2 βδομάδες τώρα, που δουλεύω στο Macbook Air αντί για το αργό, βαρύτερο αλλά πιο μικρό Turbo-X Topnote netbook. Και δεν μετανιώνω καθόλου το switch από netbook σε laptop (και τί laptop!) και από Windows σε Mac OS X. &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/8-must-have-mac-apps-for-switchers-and-not-only/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Πάνε 2 βδομάδες τώρα, που δουλεύω στο Macbook Air αντί για το αργό, βαρύτερο αλλά πιο μικρό Turbo-X Topnote netbook. Και δεν μετανιώνω καθόλου το switch από netbook σε laptop (και τί laptop!) και από Windows σε Mac OS X. Ούτε τεχνικά, αλλά κυρίως ούτε σε επίπεδο software! Στο software είναι που το OS X και η Apple κερδίζουν by far τον ανταγωνισμό είτε λέγεται Windows είτε Open Source Linux. Εδώ λοιπόν, είναι μια λίστα από τις εφαρμογές που πρέπει να έχει κάθε Mac user out there.<span id="more-688"></span></p>
<p>[τα links στον τίτλο κάθε εφαρμογής]</p>
<h3>Browser: <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/">Google Chrome</a></h3>
<p>Στην αρχή δούλευα με Safari. Μετά βγήκε ο Chrome επιτέλους και στους Mac. Τώρα είναι ο παράδεισος. Πιο γρήγορος από ποτέ στην latest beta build του και σε συνδυασμό με καταπληκτικά extensions, ο Chrome πλέον μπορεί να περηφανεύεται πως είναι ακόμα και σε επίπεδο extensions πιο καλός από τον Firefox — γιατί σε θέματα επιδόσεων, ήταν ήδη εδώ και καιρό.</p>
<h3>Twitter client: <a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/">Tweetie</a></h3>
<p>Ο καλύτερος Twitter client εκεί έξω by far. Minimalism και usability στα καλύτερα τους. Multi-account και search support. Ιδανικός και για power-users παρόλο που δεν είναι columnized όπως οι ανταγωνιστές Tweetdeck και Seesmic Desktop. Το χρησιμοποιώ στην δωρέαν έκδοση με μία διαφήμιση στο timeline κάθε 1 ώρα περίπου (ποσοστό που αξίζει η free) ενώ κυκλοφορεί και στα $19.95.</p>
<h3>ΙΜ client: <a href="http://adium.im/">Adium</a>, <a href="http://skype.com">Skype</a></h3>
<p><strong>Adium</strong>: Multi-account support, απλός και λιτός. Με Growl notifications και υποστήριξη MSN, GTalk, ICQ, MobileMe, Facebook, tabbed &amp; of-the-record messaging, addons και άλλων πολλών και μέλος της Open Source κοινότητας, όλοι συμφωνούν πως δεν υπάρχει καλύτερος IM client.</p>
<p><strong> Skype</strong>: Τίποτα παραπάνω, τίποτα λιγότερο από το αγαπημένο Skype που όλοι ξέρουμε, απλά γραμμένο σε native Mac κώδικα.</p>
<h3>Media player: <a href="http://videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a></h3>
<p>Βρίσκεται σε κάθε μηχάνημα κάθε χρήστη που σέβεται τον εαυτό του ως προς το media playback. Ο player που τα παίζει όλα και με πολλές άλλες λειτουργίες βρίσκεται και αυτός στην Mac-side of the game.</p>
<h3>FTP &amp; Filesharing: <a href="http://cyberduck.ch/">Cyberduck</a>, <a href="http://dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a></h3>
<p><strong>Cyberduck</strong>: Ένας powerful open source FTP client με πολύ απλό και easy to use interface. Κερδίζει τις εντυπώσεις από την πρώτη στιγμή χάρη των πολύ καλών features του όπως multiple connections, resumable downloads, recursive transfers, bookmarks, folder synchronizations και άλλα. Συνεργάζεται τέλεια με Mac και Spotlight, Bonjour, Keychain &amp; AppleScript.</p>
<p><strong>Dropbox</strong>: Με το free plan 2Gb <a href="http://apas.gr/2008/09/13/free-file-hosting-dropbox-on-amazon/">είναι ίσως το πιο δημοφιλές cloud file sharing service εδώ και καιρό</a>. Υποστηρίζει Windows, Mac, Linux και κάνει την διακίνηση αρχείων μεταξύ αυτών παιχνιδάκι. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM1MzYwOTk">Κάνετε λογαριασμό</a>, κατεβάζετε τον client και μετά απολαμβάνετε να γίνονται όλα μόνα τους.</p>
<h3>Code editor: <a href="http://www.panic.com/coda/">Coda</a></h3>
<p>Ο καλύτερος code editor που υπάρχει σε Mac, Windows και Linux. Παλιά, στα Windows-days χρησιμοποιούσα το Notepad++, εξαιρετικό, δωρεάν &amp; opensource — από τους καλύτερους, αν όχι ο καλύτερος, code editor στα Windows. Όμως, ο Coda δεν συγκρίνεται με τίποτα και κανέναν. Κάνει τα πάντα από FTP client, live preview, learning/troubleshooting books μέχρι κα custom CSS editor είναι λίγα από τα στοιχεία που τον κάνει έναν από του καλύτερους editor που έχουν υπάρξει ποτέ. Κυκλοφορεί δωρέαν ή αλλιώς ψηλά, στα $99.</p>
<p><em>For the Mac users: Ποιές εφαρμογές χρησιμοποιείτε και ποιές θα συστήνατε σε έναν νέο switcher στους Mac;</em></p>
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		<title>Apple iPad, πως μπορεί να αλλάξει τον κόσμο μέσα από την εκπαίδευση</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Το iPad είναι σίγουρα αμφιλεγόμενο. Πολλοί το κατηγορούν και άλλοι τόσοι είναι που το υποστηρίζουν.  Αν και εγώ ήμουν ανάμεσα στους πρώτους, προβλέποντας όχι την εμπορική του αποτυχία — ήμουν σίγουρος πως θα πουλούσε — αλλά ότι εν τέλει δεν &#8230; <a href="http://apas.gr/apple-ipad-how-it-can-change-the-world-through-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Το iPad είναι σίγουρα αμφιλεγόμενο. Πολλοί το κατηγορούν και άλλοι τόσοι είναι που το υποστηρίζουν.  Αν και εγώ ήμουν ανάμεσα στους πρώτους, προβλέποντας όχι την εμπορική του αποτυχία — ήμουν σίγουρος πως θα πουλούσε — αλλά ότι εν τέλει δεν θα τάραζε τα νερά, I&#8217;m proven wrong. Η ιστορία για άλλη μια φορά επαναλαμβάνεται.<span id="more-630"></span></p>
<p>Η Apple επανεφεύρεσε τον προσωπικό υπολογιστή. Όχι για τα geek masses — εμάς — αλλά για όλο τον υπόλοιπο κόσμο, που ας μην ξεχνάμε είναι η μεγάλη και δυνατή πλειοψηφία. Δεν θα επεκταθώ άλλο σε αυτό, τα είπαν <a href="http://www.pestaola.gr/joe-hewitt-ethan-nicholas-apple-ipad/">πολύ καλά</a> ο <a href="http://www.pestaola.gr/why-apple-ipad-will-change-human-history-as-we-know-it/">Στέφανος</a>, o <a href="http://calebelston.com/is-the-ipad-for-dumb-people">Caleb Elston</a> και ο <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/31/ipad-moms-next-computer/">Ethan Nicholas</a>. </p>
<p>There is one more thing. H εκπαίδευση.</p>
<p>Το iPad μπορεί να αλλάξει τον κόσμο έτσι όπως τον ξέρουμε μέσα από την εκπαίδευση και το σχολείο. Και η γνώμη μου είναι πως πρέπει.</p>
<p>Το iPad μπορεί να γίνει το καλύτερο educational tool εκεί έξω, για τον Δυτικό κόσμο και τις αναπτυσσόμενες χώρες.</p>
<p>Φανταστείτε το απλώς.</p>
<p>Τα βιβλία θα μετατραπούν σε pdf ή ebooks. Οικονομία στο χαρτί και στα χρήματα. Eco-friendly &amp; economy friendly. Ευκολία ανανεώσης τους από τις συντακτικές ομάδες των Υπουργείων κάθε χώρας κάθε (μακάρι) ένα-δύο χρόνια, καθώς η γνώση αυξάνεται με αστραπιαίους ρυθμούς.</p>
<p>Ευκολία χρήσης. Ακριβώς αυτό που λένε οι τρεις που ανέφερα πριν (Στέφανος, Caleb, Ethan). Δεν είναι όλοι οι μαθητές — ειδικότερα οι πιτσιρικάδες του δημοτικού και του γυμνασίου, το ίδιο εξοικοιωμένοι με τους υπολογιστές. Μέσω όμως της touch screen και όλης αυτής της &#8220;magic&#8221; εμπειρίας σε λειτουργικό και λειτουργικότητα &#8211; user friendliness, θα αλλάξει αυτή η κατάσταση.</p>
<p>Wifi connectivity. Το iPad μέσω Wifi σε κάθε σχολείο και τάξη θα κάνει την κατάσταση &#8220;σχολείο, παράδεισο για τους μαθητές. Θα αναγκάσει στην δημιουργία WLAN εντός όλων τον σχολείων — δημόσιων και μη. Emails με ερωτήσεις προς τους καθηγητές όταν θα είναι εκτός τάξης, ανταλλαγή αρχείων, εκπαιδευτικού υλικού κλπ <a href="http://www.pestaola.gr/apple-islate-tablet-one-last-wish">με τον τρόπο που έγραψε the other day ο Στέφανος</a> και γιατί όχι δημιουργία ενός κοινού Dropbox για την κάθε τάξη.</p>
<p>Βάρος και portability. Είναι μικρό, ελαφρύ, κομψό και χωράει σε κάθε σχολική τσάντα. Πλέον δεν θα χρειάζεται να κουβαλάει ο πιτσιρικάς του δημοτικού παραπανίσσια κιλά στην πλάτη του, παραμόνον ένα slick iPad. Και θα απολαμβάνει περισσότερα features και καλύτερη μαθησιακή εμπειρία.</p>
<p>Ξεχάστε τα OLPC και custom Linux distros. Την ανάγκη για funding. Είναι όλα έτοιμα πλέον — η τεχνολογία υπάρχει, οι πόροι υπάρχουν γιατί η κρίση πέρασε (οκ, στην Ελλάδα τουλάχιστον όχι, αλλά αν ήμουν εγώ Πρωθυπουργός θα έλεγα χαλάλι ας μπούμε και άλλο μέσα, η εκπαίδευση είναι ένα must — δεδομένης και της κατάστασης που επικρατεί).</p>
<p>Αν η Apple και η Υπουργός Παιδείας δουν αυτό το άρθρο και έχουν την θέληση — έχουν και τον χρόνο και τα χρήματα να την υλοποιήσουν. Το μέλλον είναι εδώ, γιατί να καθυστερούμε;</p>
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