Category Archives: misc

Songbird

Songbird is a complete desktop media player or “jukebox” with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services. Some nice screenshots are out, the preview release will be out in December. I think this will be more than … read more

geo-targeted content: internet actual reality or actual world virual reality?

I was reading Inside AdWords: Use Google Maps to target your customers about Google letting advertisers geo-target AdWords campaigns using address and distance radius. This is a great feature by itself. But it is something more. It’s one more step … read more

Where’s Waldo?

A couple of days ago I was in Rome with my girlfriend, Elina. Typical tourists as we were, we kept shooting photos with our digital camera. Storage is no longer an issue, I had my 20GB iPod photo with the … read more

It’s all about the feeds

Burning Questions, the official FeedBurner blog features an interesting analysis today. What they say is that feeds are not just about blogs anymore -and they are right. Traditionally, feeds (RSS, ATOM and RDF) have been used to distribute a website’s … read more

Long weekend at Rome

A long weekend at Rome. What a nice break… We stayed at WRH Suites. Realy nice and stylish rooms, 5 minutes walk from the Termini Station (main train station, metro station and where most busses leave from) AND free Internet … read more

“Flickr TV” box

IMGP2280.JPG Originally uploaded by vrypan. My “Flickr TV” box. An old iMac running Gentoo Linux automaticaly downloads photos from Flickr Central to create an interesting and unexpected slideshow. iMac’s design makes it ideal for home

Moving mails from Cyrus IMAP to GMail

Warning!!! The following article is supposed to be used by system administrators or experienced Linux/UNIX users. Do not try it UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING! I’ve been looking for a way to move all emails stored in … read more

Bye bye!

I’m leaving to go to Peloponisos, the south part of Greek mainland, I really need some time off. I will not be able to have any connection to the Internet during my vacations so do not be surprised if comments … read more

Remix Planet

Wired Magazine Issue 13.07 has “REMIX NOW! The rise of Cut & Paste Culture” as its main theme. Of course it’s all about remixing music and movie scenes and corporate logos… Then I realized: Hackers are also part of the … read more

How do you sell a website?

Regular visitors of this blog know that I am the developer of g-metrics.com. It is an interesting idea: a script makes use of Google WEB APIs to keep track of the number of results Google returns for a query. The … read more