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I'm Apostolos, 17 years old alpine ski athlete, extreme sports junkie and savvy for all things tech and the outdoors. Apart from riding the mountains I blog about web 2.0, internet and computers. You should follow me on Twitter @apas or shoot me an email introducing yourself.

Quick thoughts on iOS 4

Yesterday, Apple gave us the iOS 4. Yesterday late night, I was testing it. Today, I’ll write about it.

What stands behind a skier?

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.

5 bookmarklets που θα πρέπει να έχεις

Bookmarklets είναι εκείνα τα μικρά bookmarks φτιαγμένα με λίγες γραμμές Javascript κώδικα, τα οποία δίνουν αρκετά websites για να διευκολύνουν μια λειτουργία τους. Προφανώς όμως, δεν τα χρειαζόμαστε όλα. Τον τελευταίο καιρό έχω καταλήξει σε 5 από αυτά τα οποία είναι εξαιρετικά χρήσιμα και time-savers.

How To: Add Gravatar support to your WordPress comments

I’m tinkering the whole morning with a WordPress theme and I’m trying to customize it. I made also a separate subdomain in order to play, edit and test themes and WordPress hacks. So, unfortunately this WordPress theme had not Gravatar support out-of-the-box. Therefore, I searched and found a very simple way to implement Gravatar to your WordPress comments.

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.

This is why I love the internets

And by this, I don’t mean an another great start-up, a brand new technology or something similar. I mean the opportunities the internet gave me to meet great people via it in real life or in some cases even online.

8 plugins that you must install in a fresh WordPress installation

I’ve been messing lately a lot with DIY Powder‘s WordPress backend & theme. After apas.gr & DIY Powder, I’ve figured out some essential plugins that are a “must” for every fresh WordPress installation.

DIY Powder, new personal side-project

You probably know that I’m an alpine ski athlete and my greatest passion of all is skiing. Well, add a WordPress blog, some ski movies and do the math.

Must-have iPhone apps: the Ultimate collection

It’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 the typical “What should I download, buddy?”. 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.

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.