N900 vs I-Phone

Well... i found this interesting comparison between the linux-based Nokia N900 phone versus Tomato's... sorry... Apple's I-Phone 3GS
Have a look at the comparison here
Note that there are very interesting comments on the article by some readers:
"The iPhone is just an iPod Touch with some smart-phone features. Great for girls and dumbs that can’t use a real platform. Now go and play with your Fart App. =)"  I can't angry more with him :)
and some failed attempts by tomato minded people to prove that N900 features are useless: "13. FM tranmitter? PASS. Most cars come with an AUX in jack now, and that is much better." Mercy ! If you had FM-transmitter (that is: transmit MP3's from your mobile phone to an FM station on your car radio) on your junk-phone you would be talking all day long about it !

Distance is not a limit !

Yestarday i repaired a laptop located in Brazil (a migrated client) just like if i was there :)
It's amazing what you can do thru the internet to help people. It was my most distant repair so far.
However, going back to my post title, certainly distance is a limit considering certain things (look @ the picture) :p

From Thunderbird to... Alpha-Bird ! (Shredder)

I just tried it out (still in alpha). It's the successor to Mozilla Thunderbird, the 'alternative' to Microsoft's 'look-out' (outlook). I just fell in love with it in the very first minutes. I am refering to Shredder version 3.1a1pre. Dare to try it ! It's FREE :) I'll put it down to a stress test since i'll be using it as default email client from now on. Just for the record i've been using the Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 so far. And of course, running on linux for boundary-free computing :) If you are using ubuntu, just add this repository to your synaptic: ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa and you'll get the daily build of thunderbird and firefox.

Το αίσχος του Κυπριακού μίζερου ίντερνετ.

Αν είναι ποτε δυνατόν , να είμαι με το laptop μου στο Costa Coffee στην καρδιά της πρωτεύουσας , να κάνω πρόσβαση στο internet μεσω hot spot του ημικρατικού μας οργανισμού (CYTA) που 'ξεσιηλήζει' που 'λίρα' και το download rate να είναι 10kbytes/s !!! Είστε μίζεροι ρε ! Κλείστε το καλύτερα ! Αντί να παρέχουν απλόχειρα για σκοπούς διαφήμισης την πρόσβαση στο διαδύκτιο !
Ο Θεός που μας βοήθησε και αποκτήσαμε την Cablenet σ'αυτή τη μίζερη αγορά του Κυπριακού Internet! Λογικές Ταχύτητες, σταθερές συνδέσεις και τιμές που πλησιάζουν τις ευρωπαικές πιο πολύ απ'τους αλλους 2 αδιφάγους κλέφτες πάροχους του internet.

Σημείωση: Το πρόβλημα της ελεεινής ταχύτητας στο hotspot δίκτυο της Cyta υφίσταται εδω και 5 τουλάχιστον μήνες (με αραιές δοκιμές κατα τη περίοδο αυτή).

Φεύγω να παω σπίτι να κατεβάσω το openoffice 3.2 beta και το Mozilla Thunderbird 3 RC μέσα σε 2 λεπτά και οχι μέσα σε 2 μέρες !

November tech news

After a period of idleness we have some progress in tech area: 1GHz mobiles coming out from htc  and youtube switches to 1080p resolution (that is 1920x1080). Glad to see the Full-HD upgrade on youtube. We'll be seeing very clear videos at last (way higher quality of a DVD movie). Full-HD definition is equal to blue-ray quality but i guess youtube will use some kind of compression to save some bandwidth.

The 1GHz CPUs on smartphones (pocket pc's) will be a good upgrade since the 528MHz range of processors. That means snappier response to user's commands. 528MHz is just OK , but 1GHz is double the speed - meaning less wait time for everything you do.

If you came across anything worth mentioning, please let me know :)