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		<title>Της φαντασίας η συνέχεια της συνέχειας</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ο Ηλίας γράφει για το θέμα της φαντασίας (επικεντρωμένο στην επιστημονική πτυχή της), την τεχνολογία και το μέλλον. Η συσχέτιση με το Matrix και το Minority Report, αναπόφευκτη. Κάπου εκεί, ανάμεσα στις σκέψεις του, άφησα και εγώ ένα σχόλιο το οποίο τελικά προέκυψε ως η καλύτερη συζήτηση που είχα σε comments τα τελευταία 3 χρόνια blogging. Από το άρθρο — που πρέπει να το διαβάσεις — ξεχωρίζω τα παρακάτω κομμάτια: Κάποτε απορούσα γιατί οι άνθρωποι αγαπούν τα μαθηματικά και τις θετικές επιστήμες. Τώρα μπορώ να τους καταλάβω. Στην αλήθεια των αριθμών κάποιοι βρίσκουν πνευματική ανακούφιση, γιατί η φύση τους είναι σταθερή και απόλυτη, οι αλλαγές τους ελεγχόμενες και πάντα ο συνδυασμός του φέρει κάποιο αποτέλεσμα ακόμα και όταν αυτό δεν [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ο Ηλίας γράφει για το θέμα της φαντασίας (επικεντρωμένο στην επιστημονική πτυχή της), την τεχνολογία και το μέλλον. Η συσχέτιση με το Matrix και το Minority Report, αναπόφευκτη. Κάπου εκεί, ανάμεσα στις σκέψεις του, άφησα και εγώ ένα σχόλιο το οποίο τελικά προέκυψε ως η καλύτερη συζήτηση που είχα σε comments τα τελευταία 3 χρόνια blogging.<span id="more-980"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://socialhub3.com/2010/08/%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1/">Από το άρθρο</a> — που <em>πρέπει</em> να το διαβάσεις — ξεχωρίζω τα παρακάτω κομμάτια:</p>
<blockquote><p>Κάποτε απορούσα γιατί οι άνθρωποι αγαπούν τα μαθηματικά και τις θετικές επιστήμες. Τώρα μπορώ να τους καταλάβω. Στην αλήθεια των αριθμών κάποιοι βρίσκουν πνευματική ανακούφιση, γιατί η φύση τους είναι σταθερή και απόλυτη, οι αλλαγές τους ελεγχόμενες και πάντα ο συνδυασμός του φέρει κάποιο αποτέλεσμα ακόμα και όταν αυτό δεν είναι το επιθυμητό.</p>
<p>Η φαντασία λειτουργεί αυτόνομα και παράγει εικόνες στο μυαλό μας μέσα από τη διαδικασία της «παρθενογένεσης» ή συλλέγει και συνδυάζει κομμάτια από τις πληροφορίες που λαμβάνουμε καθημερινά και τα νέα αυτά αμαλγάματα προωθούν την ήδη υπάρχουσα γνώση εξελικτικά;</p></blockquote>
<p>Παραθέτω όλη μας τη συζήτηση στα comments (γιατί αυτός ήταν και ο λόγος του post).</p>
<p><strong>Εγώ</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Δεν ξέρω ποιο είναι το επόμενο big step, αλλά πιστεύω το minority report θα το ζήσουμε σίγουρα. Είτε αυτό είναι καλό είτε όχι. Και το Matrix (ίσως). Αλήθεια, τί είναι το Matrix? :-P</p>
<p><strong>Ηλίας</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Αισθάνομαι ότι το Minority Report έχουμε αρχίσει να το ζούμε, αν και περιμένω το σύστημα πρόληψης του εγκλήματος. Cool and disturbing biotechnology.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Το Matrix! Τι είναι το Matrix; Η πραγματικότητα μας; Ένα όνειρο που τροφοδοτείται από την ενέργεια μας; Το αποτέλεσμα της παράκρουσης του συνόλου της ανθρώπινης συνείδησης; Μια τριλογία ταινιών με πρωταγωνιστή τον Keanu Reeves σε ρόλο bullet-dodger;</p>
<p><strong>Εγώ</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Να πω την αμαρτία μου, το MR δεν το έχω δει ποτέ ολόκληρο, μόνο parts αλλά ξέρω περί τείνος πρόκειται. Συμφωνώ στο cool and disturbing biotechnology. Είναι από τις πιο &#8220;ύπουλες&#8221; τεχνολογίες at our days. Μπορεί πολύ εύκολα να χρησιμοποιηθεί both με καλό και κακό στόχο (και ειδικά στον δεύτερο, χωρίς να το γνωρίζουμε πάντα).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Ίσως τελικά το Matrix να είμαστε εμείς. Μια πραγματικότητα που δεν μπορούμε να αντιληφθούμε λόγω της αντίληψης μας περί 3 διαστάσεων, αλλά μπορούμε να την δημιουργήσουμε; Μαζί με AI at it&#8217;s finest.</p>
<p><strong>Ηλίας</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Θεωρώ ότι η τεχνολογία από μόνη της δεν έχει ηθικό χαρακτηρισμό. Η δική μας χρήση της δίνει καλό ή κακό χαρακτήρα. Πιο τρανό παράδειγμά από τα blogs στην Ελλάδ δεν υπάρχει. Εμείς γράφουμε γιατί αγαπάμε αυτό που κάνουμε και άλλοι τα θάβουν γιατί δεν είναι ποιοτικά. Αυτοί όμως που τα θάβουν βλέπουν μόνο μία πλευρά, γιατί αυτή τη χρήση γνωρίζουν να ακολουθούν.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Μα αναρωτιέμαι πως αλλιώς κάτι το τεχνικό να έχει ηθική χροιά; Και εκεί φίλε μου μπαίνει το AI, καθώς τα σύνορα μεταξύ τεχνητού και φυσικού αρχίζουν να γίνονται διάτρητα. Πάντως αν παρακολουθήσεις τις περισσότερες ταινίες επιστημονικής φαντασίας που πραγματεύονται την τεχνολογία του μέλλοντος βλέπεις ότι σε διδάσκουν να αντιμετωπίζεις την τεχνολογία με καχυποψία. Το δραματικό στοιχείο υπερνικά τις πιο πολλές φορές το θετικό και τελικά αυτό σου μένει.</p>
<p><strong>Εγώ</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Θεωρώ ότι η τεχνολογία από μόνη της δεν έχει ηθικό χαρακτηρισμό. Η δική μας χρήση της δίνει καλό ή κακό χαρακτήρα.&#8221; agreed 100%.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Το τεχνικό από μόνο του δεν έχει ηθική χροιά. Αυτός που το κατασκεύασε και οι προθέσεις του έχουν. Τα σύνορα γίνονται όλο και πιο διάτρητα, μένει, πιστεύω, το πως θα τα διαχειριστούμε εμείς. Από το internet και αν θα πρέπει να είναι regulated και censored — έστω και στο ελάχιστο — (που δεν θα πρέπει) μέχρι την &#8220;πίεση&#8221; σε AI tech corporations σαν κοινωνία ή ότι άλλο προκύψει. We are netizens και, πιστεύω, είναι στο χέρι μας το tech-μέλλον μας.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Όσο για τις ταινιές, μήπως τελικά μπορεί να έχουν και δίκιο; Ως γεγονότα το εννοώ όχι την &#8220;καχυποψία&#8221;. Τα 90s οι ταινίες μιλούσαν για πόλεμο Ιράκ/Αφγανιστάν και, τσουπ, μετά τα 00s πόλεμος εκεί (ένα τυχαίο παράδειγμα).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Αλλά και πάλι, όλα στο τέλος καταλήγουν πως θα τα κάνουμε εμείς interpret και πως θα τα διαχειριστούμε, καλά ή κακά.</p>
<p><strong>Ηλίας</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Το τεχνικό από μόνο του δεν έχει ηθική χροιά. Αυτός που το κατασκεύασε και οι προθέσεις του έχουν.&#8221; Ακριβώς! Είναι θέμα προθέσεων!</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Έπιασες θέμα-φωτιά με τα regulations. Πραγματικά απορώ που είμαστε ίσως η μοναδική χώρα που συζητά την νομοθετική ρύθμιση των blogs. Τι φρούτο είναι αυτό; Εμείς ως netizes δεν έχουμε μάθει να αυτορρυθμίζουμε τους χώρους όπου δραστηριοποιούμαστε; Δεν έχουμε μάθει να επιλέγουμε τις πηγές μας και να μην πιστεύουμε σε λάσπες και προσβολές; Τόσο δύσκολο είναι πια να αποδυναμωθεί το κακής ποιότητας web στην ελληνόφωνη κοινότητα; Απλά δεν πατάς στο link.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Και αν τα δημόσια πρόσωπα στη χώρα μας έχουν πια τόσο πρόβλημα, τότε αυτά στις ΗΠΑ και σε άλλες χώρες τι να πουν που πραγματικά τους ξεβρακώνουν online; Πλαστή ευθιξία.</p>
<p><strong>Εγώ</strong>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Είναι θέμα παιδείας. Προφανώς, δεν την έχουμε (ή τουλάχιστον η πλειοψηφία της κοινωνίας μας). Και αυτό είναι πολύ κακό. Και affects όλους τους τομείς της κοινωνίας μας, από το internet, στην πολιτική, στις αντιλήψεις, στους τεχνοφοβικούς πολιτικούς μας (εντάξει, εδώ εξαιρείται ο ΓΑΠ, this is a fact).</p>
<p>Ήταν σίγουρα η καλύτερη συζήτηση που είχα έως τώρα. Ηλία, ευχαριστώ. :-)</p>
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		<title>POwer, Broccoli, KOPIMI and the Internets</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/08/01/power-broccoli-kopimi-and-the-internets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an ongoing discussion in Greece lately (no, I&#8217;m not talking about the econimic crisis, debts and all this fiscal stuff). A journalist who appeared to be the founder and to maintain the most-visited blog worldwide, troktiko, was killed assassinated. Everything in troktiko was anonymous (no connection with Anonymous meme). Lot&#8217;s of people liked it and even more hated it. Despite all this, just after the assassination a conversation about internet anonymity started from journos and bloggers. And here fits POwer, Broccoli and Kopimi. First things first. What the earth is Kopimi? It&#8217;s Piratebay&#8217;s manifesto. It&#8217;s not only a licence-permit for others to share, translate, remix, bend, modify, copy, trash, bash, move, publish, burn, hide, remake (you can use Creative Commons for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s an ongoing discussion in Greece lately (no, I&#8217;m not talking about the econimic crisis, debts and all this fiscal stuff). A journalist who appeared to be the founder and to maintain the most-visited blog worldwide, troktiko, was killed assassinated. Everything in troktiko was anonymous (no connection with Anonymous meme). Lot&#8217;s of people liked it and even more hated it. Despite all this, just after the assassination a conversation about internet anonymity started from journos and bloggers.<span id="more-973"></span></p>
<p>And here fits POwer, Broccoli and Kopimi.</p>
<p>First things first. <em>What the earth is Kopimi?</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s Piratebay&#8217;s manifesto. It&#8217;s not only a licence-permit for others to share, translate, remix, bend, modify, copy, trash, bash, move, publish, burn, hide, remake (you can use Creative Commons for this, too). It&#8217;s the internet philosophy, summizing to the ultimate wisdom: “The Internet is right&#8221;. Actually, it&#8217;s more than just a manifesto. It is a booklet (.PDF) freely available, a guide containing a 100-things list to live the Kopimi way.</p>
<blockquote><p>Though seeded in prehistory, Kopimi is rooted in the future, and holds together a constantly vibrating avalanche of knowledge that forms the foundation for a discussion indifferent to the rippling changes of time and space. A tumult where no one has the permission to keep silent, and where we must speak to everyone and everything.</p>
<p>Our words shall, simultaneously, sound as foolishness upon deaf ears and lovely caresses to those who see and hear, but above all: They should bite firmly into you – and your mom. This is a book for those of you who find yourselves in the moment, but are looking for your way forward through the ages.</p></blockquote>
<p>Kopimi&#8217;s core philosophy is not &#8220;share, remix, copy, etc&#8221; (<a href="http://apas.gr/kopimi">I am &#8220;licensing this blog through Kopimi &amp; Creative Commons</a>) though of course it supports it, but to preserve the Internet as Internet and not as byproduct from companies and/or governments.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how it goes — two paragraphs from the introductory text in the book. You can grab the .PDF <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/353609/powr.broccoli-kopimi.pdf">here</a>. Have fun reading it.</p>
<p><em>But how is Kopimi connected to this Greek journo-blogger-thing?</em></p>
<p>See, Kopimi&#8217;s ultimate wisdom is &#8220;The Internet is right&#8221;. Now everyone (read: Government, journalists, bloggers) is trying to regulate the Internet. The second most ultimate Kopimi&#8217;s wisdom is &#8220;Regulate Nothing&#8221;. I think you get the point.</p>
<p>It is our duty to help preserve the Internet. None can regulate the Internet, even Tim Berners-Lee can&#8217;t and none shall even try regulate it. The Internet is the ultimate freedom.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the shadow of the culture industry’s final crisis of the 20th-century, grows a larger portrait of the POwr, broccoli and Kopimi. The culture industry’s complete failure is followed by the uncanny success of the diffused structure of an Internet elite, spread the world over. The book you’re about to read has no author, no designer, no typesetter, no distribution channel. Nevertheless, you have it in front of you. How did that happen?</p>
<p>Read the frightening instructions of a loosely coherent core of IT specialists grafted into an unsuspecting generation of youths, and how the group stole the eggs, dollars and jpegs in front of the powerless establishment and strong financial interests. Learn how servers, seeders, trackers, e-mail, company formation, foreign investors, Ikko’s weekly allowance, scandalous advertisements, links and search services, infiltrated and destroyed an entire world that had nowhere to run, no one to consult, and no one to trust&#8230;</p>
<p>The machine, which operates under the radar frequency is unhindered from the Cambodian jungle to the gay neighborhoods of San Francisco, via the empty beaches of Tel-Aviv, and into the Internet of plain folks in Jönköping suburbs and Gothenburg harbor. It leaves no one unmoved and mangles everything in its path. Technically superior and physically independent it’s constantly transforming, mutating and reappearing in new guises and under new codenames. With a stranglehold on its opponents it’s completely untouched and even more – incomprehensible.</p>
<p>It has rightly been said that this is the first time Kopimi has freed the world and we can be sure that it’s not the last.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Thoughts on Twitter&#8217;s new API</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading today about Twitter&#8217;s new User Streams API. Well I have to admit that I am a bit outdated on tech news since last week, because I went to Mt. Seli staying at the home of a friend of mine for mountain biking. I am catching up (I was reading only Gruber&#8217;s feed from my Reeder app in iPhone.). Anyway, my first thought is: this is big and looks promising. Of course it is! And by the way, this whole new API and concept proves Twitter&#8217;s interest in a new self-owned datacenter. Heck, User Streams API needs a lot of bandwith and infrastructure. The world will be instant. Like, real instant or like, IM instant. TNW did mention [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been reading today about <a href="http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/29/twitters-user-streams-api-comes-at-you-quickly-will-you-be-able-to-keep-up/">Twitter&#8217;s new User Streams API</a>. Well I have to admit that I am a bit outdated on tech news since last week, because I went to Mt. Seli staying at the home of a friend of mine for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apostolosp/sets/72157624460453217/">mountain biking</a>. I am catching up (I was reading only Gruber&#8217;s feed from my Reeder app in iPhone.). Anyway, my first thought is: this is big and looks promising.<span id="more-956"></span></p>
<p>Of course it is!</p>
<p>And by the way, this whole new API and concept proves Twitter&#8217;s interest in a new self-owned datacenter. Heck, User Streams API needs a lot of bandwith and infrastructure. The world will be instant. Like, real instant or like, IM instant.</p>
<p>TNW did mention a kind of <a rel="lightbox" href="http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/29/twitters-user-streams-api-comes-at-you-quickly-will-you-be-able-to-keep-up/">bug/problem related thing</a>. New User Streams API will be useless for power users (read: Scoble and his friends). Either they (Twitter) should make the new API opt-in/opt-out with a Settings option — which is, I think, very likely to happen or Scoble and his friends should a) unfollow a ton of people b) setup new accounts (pointless, in my opinion).</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a new concept. Again, TNW <a href="http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/29/with-new-streaming-api-favorites-will-become-twitters-like-button/">points it out</a>. An idea of implementing Favorites into a built-in Retweet system (I imagine it as something like Flickr&#8217;s favorites which are now together with comments in comments format.).</p>
<p><a rel="lightbox" href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/zeefavorites.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-958" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/zeefavorites.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="301" /></a></p>
<p>I love favorites. Yes, I am the very single person after Scoble who favorites tweets. It&#8217;s very handy when I&#8217;m with my iPhone outside and see interesting tweets for great articles and stuff like this. It serves as an Instapaper for my Twitter. Yes, I know there&#8217;s Instapaper on Twitter for iPhone. Whatever..</p>
<p>As with Flickr, I&#8217;m against this new favorites implementation. I don&#8217;t see it as a Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; button. I&#8217;m positive though, that the Twitter guys will surprise us. Or at least, I hope so.</p>
<p>Back on the real-time thingie. We&#8217;ll all like it. A lot. I was looking for a such upgrade since May or June, mainly on my Tweetie desktop client. During the summer I found out that I was desperately looking for it on Twitter for iPhone. So, guessing from my experiences and keeping in mind that you follow under 1,000 thousand people (I follow 540), I bet it will be great.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just wondering how Twitter will solve — not only their&#8217;s — bandwith problem. I mean, being mobile with a data plan it&#8217;s ok nowadays but won&#8217;t Twitter for iPhone will fetch a lot of calls (read: MBs of your data plan in the long shot), especially if you follow a lot of people and they tweet like a thousand monkeys on keyboards. A good solution could be if Twitter would sum-up 5-10 tweets at a time and send them to you (if you&#8217;re mobile) in intervals. That&#8217;s a lot of nerd-talk in their geeky meetings I guess.</p>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>Straightforward: I like it. It will bring Twitter into the next level and I am sure about this. There&#8217;s a small technical problem that can be easily hacked-around. Do you think that will, the new User Stream API indeed bring Twitter in the next level? Oh and by the way, you should follow me, I&#8217;m @<a href="http://twitter.com/apas">apas</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Άλλο ένα blog στο Ελληνικό Internet γεννήθηκε πριν λίγες μέρες. Το όνομα αυτού Tutz και το περιεχόμενό του tutorial και tips για ότι μπορεί να βασανίσει τον απλό χρήστη υπολογιστή στις μέρες μας! Αν και είναι μόνο η αρχή, είμαστε ήδη 4 άτομα. Ο Δημήτρης και ο Γιώργος που είχαν την ιδέα, παρέα με τον Γιάννη και εμένα. Όπως είπα, μιας και είναι αρχή, ίσως προσέξεις κάποια λαθάκια, ίσως κάποια άρθρα δεν βγάζουν νόημα, ίσως ίσως ίσως… Το παλεύουμε όμως και ελπίζουμε σε μερικές μέρες να έχουμε συντονιστεί πλήρως, παρόλο που είναι Καλοκαίρι! Για οποιαδήποτε ερώτηση, πρόβλημα, απορία, γενικά για τα πάντα μπορείς να επικοινωνήσεις μαζί μας στο team@tutz.gr. Αν ενδιαφέρεσαι για συνεργασία θα χαρούμε να σε έχουμε μαζί μας, αρκεί [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Άλλο ένα blog στο Ελληνικό Internet γεννήθηκε πριν λίγες μέρες. Το όνομα αυτού <a href="http://tutz.gr">Tutz</a> και το περιεχόμενό του tutorial και tips για ότι μπορεί να βασανίσει τον απλό χρήστη υπολογιστή στις μέρες μας!<span id="more-952"></span></p>
<p>Αν και είναι μόνο η αρχή, είμαστε ήδη 4 άτομα. Ο Δημήτρης και ο <a href="http://blog.giannoug.gr">Γιώργος</a> που είχαν την ιδέα, παρέα με τον <a href="http://greekyblog.wordpress.com/">Γιάννη</a> και εμένα. Όπως είπα, μιας και είναι αρχή, ίσως προσέξεις κάποια λαθάκια, ίσως κάποια άρθρα δεν βγάζουν νόημα, ίσως ίσως ίσως… Το παλεύουμε όμως και ελπίζουμε σε μερικές μέρες να έχουμε συντονιστεί πλήρως, παρόλο που είναι Καλοκαίρι!</p>
<p>Για οποιαδήποτε ερώτηση, πρόβλημα, απορία, γενικά για τα πάντα μπορείς να επικοινωνήσεις μαζί μας στο team@tutz.gr. Αν ενδιαφέρεσαι για συνεργασία θα χαρούμε να σε έχουμε μαζί μας, αρκεί να επιλέξεις μια κατηγορία! Ακόμη, αν έχεις κάποιο πρόβλημα ή θες βοήθεια για κάτι που σε παιδεύει στον υπολογιστή σου, θα χαρούμε να σε βοηθήσουμε. Το μόνο που χρειάζεται να κάνεις είναι να μας στείλεις ένα email στο requests@tutz.gr!</p>
<p>Καλή μας αρχή!</p>
<p>—<br />
[<a href="http://blog.giannoug.gr/tutz-gr-ena-blog-gemato-tutorial-kai-tips/">via</a>]<br />
<em>Το έκανα κατευθείαν copy το post από τον Γιώργο μιας και το περιέγραψε πολύ καλά. </em></p>
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		<title>Why (and how) many teens are moving out from Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was the first to opt-out Facebook from my buddies. Since early June I am (one of the few, I have to say, millions of the so called &#8220;Western civilization—society&#8221; worldwide) who deactivated their Facebook account without any thinking of returning back. Lately, I see a few other friends to deactivating their Facebook accounts and some others who haven&#8217;t ever registered for a profile. This might be a trend — or an effect on people from the notorious Privacy problems. Well, to admit it, I had a fully customized profile. A selected few could see my wall, write, comment, etc while others could not see all of my photos — just some albums in most cases. I had also a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was the first to opt-out Facebook from my buddies. Since early June I am (one of the few, I have to say, millions of the so called &#8220;Western civilization—society&#8221; worldwide) who deactivated their Facebook account without any thinking of returning back. Lately, I see a few other friends to deactivating their Facebook accounts and some others who haven&#8217;t ever registered for a profile.<span id="more-944"></span></p>
<p>This might be a trend — or an effect on people from the notorious Privacy problems. Well, to admit it, I had a fully customized profile. A selected few could see my wall, write, comment, etc while others could not see all of my photos — just some albums in most cases. I had also a list of &#8220;friends-I-don&#8217;t-know&#8221;, who could only see, let&#8217;s say, my profile picture.</p>
<p>I was &#8220;evangelizing&#8221; Privacy settings to my friends. Most of them didn&#8217;t care, others looked like &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s interesting. I&#8217;ll do it.&#8221; And from the guys who did not care some of them are asking me how to customize Privacy now. That being said, I don&#8217;t think Privacy was an issue for the masses. People didn&#8217;t care or didn&#8217;t know — that&#8217;s exactly were Zuck was and is betting on. Unawareness.</p>
<p><em>A little bit off-topic: There&#8217;s an interesting thought that this &#8220;opting-out Facebook&#8221; thing is something like a &#8220;being alternative&#8221; trend — being against masses. Being not &#8220;hip&#8221; or something. That could evolve into peer-pressure later (in a few months — under a year) — more on peer-pressure in a minute.</em></p>
<p>The masses will never deactivate/delete their Facebook all-together. They&#8217;ll never care for privacy (admit it, we, only the geeks care for such things or evangelize them and so on). They&#8217;ll never care why &#8220;Like&#8221; and not &#8220;Fan&#8221;. They&#8217;ll never care about what technologies are being used by Facebook. They&#8217;ll never care why Facebook evolves that way (if they know why Facebook evovles in the first place from a plain soc. net. to a all-things-social-we-control-your-internet thing). They&#8217;ll never do something out of the ordinary. In fact, they are bound to one another. Heck, that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re a mass in first place!</p>
<p>My guess, if there&#8217;s any way to achieve or even understand why will ever (if they, honestly) move out from Facebook in masses, this is peer-pressure. Imagine something like a tsunami wave of influences spread very fast. I quit, you quit, he quit. Oh, another one has just quited. This series of events — chain reactions will affect them. They&#8217;ll start eventually saying &#8220;Uh, oh, something&#8217;s going on here. Everyone&#8217;s leaving. Nothing else to do here alone, I&#8217;ll leave too.&#8221; Obviously, this is a pure &#8220;early-adopters vs. laggards&#8221; concept — and answers both to the &#8220;why&#8221; and &#8220;how&#8221; of the question &#8220;Why and how teens move out from Facebook.&#8221;</p>
<p>But yet again this is, in my opinion, very unlikely to happen. As I can see and observe from friends and people I know, most of the Facebook users are kind of Facebook addicts. But if the thing starts rolling, that equals too a pretty much decent number of people moving out, it won&#8217;t stop. Picture this.</p>
<p><em>Now</em>, picture <a href="http://joindiaspora.com">Diaspora</a>. <a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/07/01/one-month-in.html">This is what I am waiting for</a>. This is something really cool. Personally controlled, do-it-all, distributed open-source social network. I pray that it will have easy-to-install packages and installation in general, so it can attract the non-early-adopter geeks, aka the masses and the mainstream. I think this is a good way for pushing peer-pressure. I think Diaspora can become the tipping point, the change for many users.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll see. We cannot predict, we cannot be sure.</p>
<p><em>What do you think? What&#8217;s your opinion about the &#8220;why&#8221; and the &#8220;how&#8221; of teens —or in general people— abandoning Facebook?</em></p>
<p><em>PS.: I&#8217;m 17.</em></p>
<p><em>PS. 2: This is post is basically my thoughts on &#8220;<a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007808">Why many teens are moving from Facebook</a></em><em>&#8221; post by eMarketer and the reason why I wrote it, is to publish my thoughts as an ex-Facebook teen. Oh, and by the way, eMarketer&#8217;s post is definitely a good piece of read.</em></p>
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		<title>Wikipedia Companion, Google Chrome Extension</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/07/13/wikipedia-companion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This probably should go as an update in the &#8220;Best way to Chrome&#8221;  post, but I changed my made and here I am writing about Wikipedia Companion. It&#8217;s probably the best Wikipedia extension/shortcut out there. Not only in Chrome, I might add. If you&#8217;re surfing the Chrome way, give it a shot from the Google Chrome Extensions repo.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This probably should go as an update in the &#8220;<a href="http://apas.gr/2010/02/26/the-best-way-to-chrome-8-useful-plugins-and-one-tip/">Best way to Chrome</a>&#8221;  post, but I changed my made and here I am writing about Wikipedia Companion.<span id="more-940"></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s probably the best Wikipedia extension/shortcut out there. Not only in Chrome, I might add.</p>
<p><a rel="lightbox" href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wikipedia.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-941" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wikipedia.png" alt="" width="394" height="429" /></a></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re surfing the Chrome way, <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dhgpkiiipkgmckicafkhcihkcldbdeej">give it a shot from the Google Chrome Extensions repo</a>.</p>
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		<title>How To: Integrate + Sync iCal, iCal.app &amp; Google Calendar</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/07/09/how-to-integrate-sync-ical-ical-app-google-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calendar OTA syncing to Google, Mac and iPhone can be painless. Seriously. Dive in, to find out how. It&#8217;s very easy to have a synced calendar over your Google Calendar, iCal and iPhone&#8217;s iCal.app. The basic concept works if you use Google Calendar, otherwise you just have to sync your iCals via USB and iTunes. But, you can also setup a Google Calendar to achieve OTA syncing for your Mac and iPhone. Nice, huh? Just follow these quick and eath steps. Setup Google Sync In your iPhone open Settings &#62; Mail, Contacts, Calendars, tap &#8220;Add Account&#8221; and select Microsoft Exhange. In the next screen enter your account info. In the email field type your full Google Account (ie. your Gmail). [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Calendar OTA syncing to Google, Mac and iPhone can be painless. Seriously. Dive in, to find out how.<span id="more-920"></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s very easy to have a synced calendar over your Google Calendar, iCal and iPhone&#8217;s iCal.app. The basic concept works if you use Google Calendar, otherwise you just have to sync your iCals via USB and iTunes.</p>
<p><em>But</em>, you can also setup a Google Calendar to achieve OTA syncing for your Mac and iPhone. Nice, huh?</p>
<p>Just follow these quick and eath steps.</p>
<h4>Setup Google Sync</h4>
<p>In your iPhone open Settings &gt; Mail, Contacts, Calendars, tap &#8220;Add Account&#8221; and select Microsoft Exhange. In the next screen enter your account info. In the email field type your <em>full</em> Google Account (ie. your Gmail). Leave the &#8220;Domain&#8221; field blank and type enter again your <em>full</em> Google Account as &#8220;Username&#8221; and your password as a password, obviously. Tap &#8220;Next&#8221;. If &#8220;Unable to Verify Certificate&#8221; apperas just tap &#8220;Cancel&#8221; and in the next screen enter <code>m.google.com</code> in the &#8220;Server&#8221; field. Tap &#8220;Next&#8221; and select the services you&#8217;d like to sync and &#8220;Keep on my iPhone&#8221;. (Hint: Google Sync supports Push notifications.)</p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mobile-Photo-9-Ιουλ-2010-17-10-50.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-925" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mobile-Photo-9-Ιουλ-2010-17-10-50.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>— Now, you have successfully enabled OTA syncing for Google Calendar and your iPhone. Time to setup Google Calendar in iCal, don&#8217;t you think?</p>
<h4>Setup Google Calendar in iCal</h4>
<p>Fire up iCal and hit the Preferences (<code>cmd+,</code>). Navigate to Accounts tab and click &#8220;+&#8221;. In the pop-up enter your full Google Accounts username (email) and password. Under &#8220;Server Options&#8221; enter the following <code>https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/YOUREMAIL@DOMAIN.COM/user</code> Of course, replace with your email. Leave &#8220;Kerberos bla bla&#8221; box unchecked and click &#8220;Add&#8221;. Your Google Calendar will now appear in iCal&#8217;s list of calendars, and changes you make to your Google Calendar in iCal will be reflected almost instantly. Event information will automatically refresh every five minutes. You can change this interval by opening the iCal &gt; Preferences &gt; Accounts menu and selecting a new refresh interval under the &#8216;Refresh calendars&#8217; drop-down. Otherwise, you can simply hit <code>cmd+r</code> to refresh manually. There&#8217;s no API limit or something.</p>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/1kRN7u.Screen-shot-2010-07-09-at-17-18-46.png" rel="lightbox"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-928" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/1kRN7u.Screen-shot-2010-07-09-at-17-18-46.png" alt="" width="414" height="344" /></a></p>
<p>Thanks to @<a href="http://twitter.com/diab">diab</a> for his initial help with this.</p>
<p>Questions? Feel free to comment.</p>
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		<title>I heart #ssmap.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoop—whoop! Good news arrived today in my email inbox. You know, there&#8217;s this great Greek tech podcast called &#8220;Sugarenia + Stelabouras make a podcast&#8221; aka #ssmap. Honestly, it&#8217;s probably one of the best tech podcasts out there (yes, I mean the whole wide world). I know these guys from Twitter (@sugarenia, @stelabouras), Wiggler, CSS3 and their personal blogs — they rock and are very talented geeks. Recently they turned 40 episodes and made a contest, giving out for free an iPhone app up to 20€. Yup, you guessed correctly. I won. It&#8217;s a fun thing to feel, but for a third time in my life or so I did win a contest. The app I chose is Reeder — the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoop—whoop! Good news arrived today in my email inbox. You know, there&#8217;s this great Greek tech podcast called &#8220;<a href="http://ssmap.tumblr.com/">Sugarenia + Stelabouras make a podcast</a>&#8221; aka #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ssmap">ssmap</a>. Honestly, it&#8217;s probably one of the best tech podcasts out there (<em>yes</em>, I mean the whole wide world).<span id="more-915"></span></p>
<p>I know these guys from Twitter (@<a href="http://twitter.com/sugarenia">sugarenia</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/stelabouras">stelabouras</a>), <a href="http://wiggler.gr">Wiggler</a>, <a href="http://css3.gr/">CSS3</a> and their personal blogs — they rock and are very talented geeks.</p>
<p>Recently they turned 40 episodes and made a contest, giving out for free an iPhone app up to 20€.</p>
<p>Yup, you guessed correctly. I won. It&#8217;s a fun thing to feel, but for a third time in my life or so I did win a contest. The app I chose is Reeder — the best RSS (aka Google Reader) reader in iPhone (it&#8217;s in my <a href="http://apas.gr/2010/06/01/must-have-iphone-apps-ultimate-collection/">Must-have iPhone apps: the Ultimate collection</a> post). Word.</p>
<p>Thanks Sug &amp; Stelabouras!</p>
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		<title>DeskShade &amp; Locksreen bug/hack</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/07/02/deskshade-locksreen-bughack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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 screen-lock capability, called DeskLock which actually is a similar to WinKey+L in PCs. It&#8217;s very handy since it catches sneaky family and co-workers red handed. See a demo screenshot here. But there&#8217;s a small bug in DeskLock. 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 [...]]]></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>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="281" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13032024&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="281" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13032024&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<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>New Flickr photo page and a few thoughts</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/06/24/new-flickr-photo-page-and-a-few-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In it&#8217;s latest blog post, Flickr announced it&#8217;s new photo experience for our photos aka photo page redesign. This is great news for photography geeks around the world, and not only. So, this is the new design. Some quick facts They&#8217;ll be rolling out the fresh features to the entire Flickr audience in the coming weeks but there&#8217;s also a beta opt-in (just visit a photo page and follow the 1-click-instructions atop). Photos will now be displayed with a larger 640 pixel wide size — plus the photo page will be a bit wider. The photo owner, dates taken, camera, and location (with a great Yahoo! Maps implementation) of the photo are all within easy reach to the top-right of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/06/23/a-new-photo-experience-your-photos-happier/">In it&#8217;s latest blog post</a>, Flickr announced it&#8217;s new photo experience for our photos aka photo page redesign. This is great news for photography geeks around the world, and not only.<span id="more-883"></span></p>
<h4>So, this is the new design.</h4>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-884 alignnone" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flickrnew.png" alt="" width="477" height="369" /></p>
<h4>Some quick facts</h4>
<p>They&#8217;ll be rolling out the fresh features to the entire Flickr audience in the coming weeks but there&#8217;s also a beta opt-in (just visit a photo page and follow the 1-click-instructions atop). Photos will now be displayed with a larger 640 pixel wide size — plus the photo page will be a bit wider.</p>
<p>The photo owner, dates taken, camera, and location (with a great Yahoo! Maps implementation) of the photo are all within easy reach to the top-right of the image. They&#8217;ve reorganized all of the helpful features that we already know into a handy Actions menu.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a brand new light box view to spotlight your photos (no need now for 3rd party sites). Favorites integration into the photo&#8217;s comments. Finally, improved navigation controls and performance on the photo page (yes, it is faster).</p>
<h4>And some thoughts</h4>
<p>I&#8217;d prefer the old-school buttons above the photo and not the new reorganized shiny bling bling thingie. These buttons were something like a trademark for Flickr, don&#8217;t you think? I don&#8217;t like the idea that all actions will be packed under a drop-down menu with more submenus and clicks. The photo page has become wider — so, why change the famous buttons?</p>
<p>The new &#8220;sidebar-like&#8221; structure with the photo owner, dates taken, camera, and location of the photo, all within reach to the right of the image is great. I mean, I like it a lot. There seems to be a bug, though. My photos were taken using an iPhone 3GS and not 3G.</p>
<p>The light box vew is ultra fast. Like, ultra fast multiplied by fast. The next/previous works absolutely great and the one-click enable/disable is quite of a cool concept.</p>
<p>Obviously, last but not least, the new width of the photos is very handy. More detail, more pixel love combined with Flickr photo quality equals more fun using the website.</p>
<h4>Summing up</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Things I did like: </strong>new sidebar structure &amp; layout, lightbox feature, larger photo width</li>
<li><strong>Things I didn&#8217;t like: </strong>new &#8220;Actions&#8221; menu, 3G/3GS bug, favorites-in-comments appearance</li>
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<p>Did you opt-in for the beta? Do you like the new Flickr redesign or care to share some thoughts? Feel free to comment.</p>
<h3>Update: Also the home page is redesigned (click for original size)</h3>
<p><a href="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flickrnewhome.png"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-894" src="http://apas.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flickrnewhome-1024x505.png" alt="" width="524" height="258" /></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>
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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 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. 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. First feel The first feel was like &#8220;superfast&#8221;. Give me [...]]]></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>What stands behind a skier?</title>
		<link>http://apas.gr/2010/06/20/what-stands-behind-a-skier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apostolos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What stands behind a skier? See this presentation I made for the fun of it the other day because I was a little, uhm, bored and had nothing better do to. Enjoy! What stands behind a skier? View more presentations from apasp.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What stands behind a skier? See this presentation I made for the fun of it the other day because I was a little, uhm, bored and had nothing better do to.<span id="more-863"></span></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_4546746"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/apasp/what-stands-behind-a-skier" title="What stands behind a skier?">What stands behind a skier?</a></strong><object id="__sse4546746" width="475" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=passionforski-100619113536-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=what-stands-behind-a-skier" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse4546746" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=passionforski-100619113536-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=what-stands-behind-a-skier" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="475" height="355"></embed></object>
<div style="padding:5px 0 12px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/apasp">apasp</a>.</div>
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