January 2012
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2012 Resolutions
I turn 26 today and it’s about time I release my resolutions for 2012.
But first let’s review the last year’s resolutions:
Work out a lot (Kinect && (Walk || Cycle || Gym))
Eat Healthy
Cook more (& healthy)
The first three were a success. I lost 32kg in 2011 (in 5 months) following the advice of Tim Ferriss (4 Hour body) plus I’ve been exercising regularly...
September 2011
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Minecraft on the Cloud!
Update: I have found (after posting this guide) that there is already a pretty well written tutorial in Minecraft Wiki, so you might wanna check this out too!
Well, sort of! I mean, title is quite catchy, isn’t it?
The following piece is a quick tutorial of how you can both save and sync through multiple machines, your Minecraft worlds on the cloud (Dropbox). Think of it this way: It will...
May 2011
1 post
Canvas Experiments
Otomata
Otomata was the first canvas experiment I worked on the past weeks and it was the one that made me realize the simplicity and beauty of canvas programming.
Batuhan Bozkurt (@earslap) did a fantastic job with his Otomata Flash demo. The idea of having cellular automata interact with each other in a 9x9 grid producing sounds when colliding with the walls was awesome, along with the...
April 2011
1 post
Announcing Analytiks iPhone app
The time has come to finally unveil the “unannounced iphone app” I was working on lately (for those who happened to notice the ‘Projects’ section on the sidebar).
So what’s Analytiks? First and foremost, Analytiks is a group project; it’s an app based on a Stefanos’ idea, developed by me and designed by Kostas.
For Analytiks, we wanted to create a...
March 2011
1 post
Google Reader Reimagined (name pending)
TL;DR: I have built a small utility service for Google Reader where you can define the topics you love and then let the system group and prioritize the stories for you. You can test it here or fork it at Github.
So this weekend I had an idea: I was going to build a small utility as an weekend project, in order to help me deal with my daily information overload issue, also known as “Google...
December 2010
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New Year's Resolutions
Happy 2011 everyone, I wish you a healthy and productive new year!
Below you can see the list of my top ten resolutions for 2011 (with random order):
Work out a lot (Kinect && (Walk || Cycle || Gym))
Eat Healthy
Cook more (& healthy)
Travel (outside Greece for first time hopefully)
Look into this coffee “business” (Marco inspired me)
Play way less (or quit playing)...
November 2010
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October 2010
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On Kindle
While staying at a friend’s place, I had the opportunity to get my hands on the new Kindle (you can view some Kindle photos on my Flickr account). Truth be told I wasn’t expecting it to be so small and light, although I had used (not owned) ebook readers before (Kindle 1st generation and a Turbo-X one).
So after the initial surprise, my attention was focused on the screen. E-ink has...
September 2010
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August 2010
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Tip: Read PDF files in iBooks the easy way
iBooks is, imo, the best pdf reader for iPad at the moment. It is fast, well implemented and you can read ePub & PDF files without switching apps.
The only problem is that the default way of loading PDF files into the app is rather unpleasant (yeah, I am referring to the ‘iTunes sync’ procedure).
So here’s what I do when I want to read a PDF file in iBooks.
Disclaimer: The...
July 2010
2 posts
“For us, it’s been all about building a regular audience and treating the...”
– Giantbomb guys
June 2010
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May 2010
4 posts
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth...”
– Bob Marley
How to keep your Tweetie timeline "Lost"...
It’s a big day today, the last episode of Lost series is out and almost everyone in the Twitter-verse is talking about it. Here’s a neat way to keep your Twitter timeline spoiler free till you watch the last episode.
Requirements
MacOSX
Tweetie for Mac
Instructions
Open the Terminal application
Copy paste the following line and hit enter: defaults write com.atebits.tweetie-mac...
Apps missing from the iPad
I’ve been using my iPad for half a week now and I just love it.
Although there is already a huge number of iPad apps, most of them -surprisingly- very well designed, I couldn’t help but notice some of the big names missing.
Lots of those missing apps have awesome iPhone equivalents and yes I can just install them to my iPad right away, but deep inside I know that their iPad versions...
April 2010
2 posts
6+2 iPhone apps I can't live without
People have already started making lists of their favorite iPad apps, so I guess it’s time to list 6 iPhone apps that I use almost all the time on my iPhone (games count as bonus):
Mail Mail is like the water of the intertubes. I am an email junkie, so Mail takes the first place in this list. I have all my email accounts synced to the iPhone so I am always up-to-date. Tweetie Tweetie is...
March 2010
5 posts
How I reduced my fuel consumption by 1lt/100km
Disclaimer: I really love driving, but I am not a I-know-everything-about-car-mechanics guy, so the following post is based simply on my empirical knowledge.
My first car (Ford Fiesta 1.25) is now about a year old and I must admit that I haven’t always been treating it nice in terms of fuel consumption levels. As a result, it was gradually turning into a fuel monster, eating up about 7.9...
List of MacOSX apps I install after a format
After the rare occasion of a clean MacOSX installation (usually after a big OS update), I have a short list of applications that I have to install in order to consider the whole procedure ‘complete’.
Although most of the apps have been replaced with their webapp counterparts, there are 30(!) applications that I use pretty often so they have to take a spot in my Applications folder.
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Remove all your posts from your Tumblr account
In the process of ‘rebooting’ this blog, I’ve decided to erase all previous auto-generated posts (nearly 7500) which have been made in the past 3 years. I was kinda lazy with my Tumblr account to be honest, so this site was acting like a mere lifestream aggregator of various feeds (Flickr photos, Twitter updates, blog rss etc.).
In order to erase this huge number of posts, I...
Hello World!
Welcome to my personal online space. Here I will post any thoughts, ideas and links that I’ll find usable. This personal blog will be in English. Thanks for stopping by!