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 :)

TRANZA !!!

I decided that the music with the strongest vibes is the TRANCE ! Vocal Trance to be more precise and there's an on-line station that i love to listen to when i need energy put into me. The link for loading it into your favorite music player is : http://scfire-dtc-aa06.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1065 (i hope you know how to do it properly or google it). The description of the station is : "Vocal Trance - D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - a fusion of trance, dance, and chilling vocals".

Use of HIGH quality speakers or earphones is suggested, because trance is about manipulation of frequencies in combination of sub-frequency beats, hence you need a good set to reproduce it, as it was intended to be.

Trance is MUSIC, it's not lyrics... lyrics are said in a musical/synthetic way... and in majority of lengthy trance masterpieces, lyrics are just a few short phrases.

Viva la Trance & grazie to the people producing it by utilizing the full potential of Synths ! Let the music play and feel the energy going into you !

Windows Vista, Windows Seven and ... Linux !

The Microsoft's new operating system will be officialy released in 22th Oct. 09 as i remember reading in a news site. However, the RTM version (Initials for Release to Mass i suppose) is out already. I got my hands on a microsoft's official build in order to upgrade my laptop's vista. It gives me 30 days to use and then i'll have to register/buy or i'll revert to Vista. I expected my system to be very very fast right after the upgrade but ok - might be slightly faster - but not THAT fast. First look reminds me of Vista GUI - but certainly they introduced better layout and more functions. The icons on the first run were huge and my Vista quick launch bar disappeared. I managed to get my settings back (even the quick launch bar) after a few minutes of playing around. Well... Another Microsoft operating system. Simple and easy to use for the ... simple minded people. It was boring after the 10th minute. I am editing this post on my Linux since that's the operating system that suits my likes - actualy - that gives me the advantage of Tweaking it to my likes. Unfortunately still i can't push it towards my end clients because people don't dare to explore / learn. To be honest i was 'in touch' , a very light touch with linux since 1997 or 1998 - when i bought my first linux distribution (suse). Took me 6 hours to get the X graphics server to run (to start the 'windows'). Lovely ages then :)
Oh, and speaking of Operating systems... If you are completely unable to use your mind, don't worry ! There are still Apple MAC's in Market ! They do 'everything' with one mouse button ! Second button is completely unnecessary... people can't use both fingers at the same time anyway :p