You know, there’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’s screen-lock capability, called DeskLock which actually is a similar to WinKey+L in PCs.
Computers
Why I prefer the Macbook Air way more than my netbook
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’s fine now. Point is, that the past weeks I had to use my old netbook. I recently mentioned about why Air wins the netbook but this time is different.
Web 3.0: A story about the Semantic Web
What will be Web 3.0? Why we should build it and how? Is it real possible? Make the world digital or make the machines able to understand the world? This is one, is one of the deepest questions in Western philosophy. This short documentary by Kate Ray tries to answer this questions; or at least make you think about them.
Learning Python
It’s been almost a year since I first learned the basics of Ruby — which now I’ve forgotten by the way, but the interest in programming hasn’t declined. For the last couple of weeks I was trying to make my way around C, C++ or Java tutorials. Hopefully, it was my friend, Dimitris, who sent me a bunch of cool resources and links from the Ioanna University, Department of Computer Science. Professor’s presentations, tutorials, syllabus and other valuable stuff for a newbie in programming. Despite all this great data, for some reason I kept digging about other languages and I found about Python out.
Web 3.0 και το μέλλον /Updated
To web εξελίσσεται με ταχύτατους ρυθμούς. Έχουν περάσει χρόνια από την πρώτη HTML σελίδα στους servers του CERN και την απλοϊκότητα του text interface σε σχέση με το παρόν — GEOlocation services, ασύρματα δίκτυα, social networks είναι λίγες από τις τεχνολογίες που χρησιμοποιούμε πλέον και αλλάζουν την ζωή μας μέρα με τη μέρα. Το μέλλον όμως — και ειδικότερα με αρχή το iPad — έρχεται και αναμένεται να αλλάξει για τα καλά την online — και όχι μόνο — ζωή μας.
Apple iPad, πως μπορεί να αλλάξει τον κόσμο μέσα από την εκπαίδευση
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’m proven wrong. Η ιστορία για άλλη μια φορά επαναλαμβάνεται.
Review: Macbook Air vs. any netbook, Air wins
As you may know, I love portability, because – especially in winter, I travel a lot. That’s why I bought a netbook last year. It did the job great. It is small, lightweight, portable, the battery lasts pretty much long and is comfortable to travel with. When I am at home, I plug it to a 19″ Samsung monitor and I feel like I’m using a normal desktop PC or just a more powerful laptop. But why did I change my mind now, almost a year after using and evangelizing netbooks?
Laptops, netbooks, Apple iTablet και η νέα αγορά
Apple iPad Tablet Concept by Photo Giddy on Flickr Η αγορά είναι γεμάτη από laptops και netbooks αυτόν τον καιρό. Συσκευές μικρές, φορητές και εύκολα συνδέσημες στο internet. Όχι μόνο αυτό, αλλά πλέον κυκλοφορούν πολλά iPhones, Nokia N900, Android-based HTCs και Windows Smartphones. Συσκευές που μπορούν να συνδεθούν από παντού στο internet. Και έρχεται να προστεθεί ακόμη μια συσκευή, το iTablet / iSlate / iWhatever από την Apple στις επόμενες μέρες.
Review: Desktop 2.0 using Twhirl
Since I was using Twhirl for my Twitter desktop client, I thought I could try it out for Friendfeed too. Creating the Twhirl Friendfeed profile and linking it with my Friendfeed via the Remote Key was a very quick and easy procedure. Then I had to change a bit my desktop to fit Twitter, Friendfeed and Launchy. That’s how my desktop looks now. I call it Desktop 2.0, a social, live and active interface for the web. Streaming all of my friends’ activity over Friendfeed and communicating with them over Twitter. Productivity Since I didn’t had any previous experience with live activity streaming I was expecting that all my productivity would go to hell, as I wrote on a previous …
Why you should buy a netbook
As I travel a lot in the winter up in the mountains for ski, I wanted to buy a new lighter and more portable laptop than my Gericom one. So, I decided to go for a netbook, despite the lots of controversial posts of the positives and negatives of netbooks. Dave Winer’s post about them made me wanting a netbook much more, because I was searching for a lightweight, cheap, small and good on hardware laptop. So, after some search around the web, I decided to buy a Turbo-X Topnote netbook. Yeah, it’s not Asus, Acer, MSI or HP but it’s getting the work done. With a bit less money I bought a netbook similar to Asus EEEPC1000H Black. The current …
