Adobe η εγγύηση!

After mounting an intense attack on Apple for not supporting Flash on its iPhone OS mobile devices, Adobe has admitted that it will not be able to ship its promised Flash Player 10.1 for mobile platforms until the second half of the year.

Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 has been widely publicized as being the first version of the company's runtime that will enable mobile devices to play most of the Flash content originally designed for playback within web browsers running on the PC desktop.

The new 10.1 version was initially targeted at Android and Palm's webOS, with developer preview editions released over the last few months. Adobe has since committed to also supporting RIM's Blackberry OS, Symbian, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, which is slated for release this winter.

The company originally intended to release Flash 10.1 in the second half of 2009 (as depicted in the timeline below), then the first half of 2010. The latest slip now makes the release a year late. Despite its problems in delivering a real version of Flash for mobile devices, Adobe executives are seeking to pin the blame on Apple for not even wanting to wait for Adobe and its promised mobile Flash runtimes.

Engadget reports that Adobe's chief executive Shantanu Narayen told Fox Business that Apple's disinterest in bundling the upcoming Flash Player on the iPhone OS was a business rather then technology decision, and that it "hurts customers," even though his company hasn't ever shipped a full mobile version of Flash for any platform that actually works with the broad array of Flash content users might want to view.

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Δεν χρειάζεται να πω τίποτα άλλο. Η θαυματουργή, καλή, άψογη Adobe και το Flash της. Καθυστερούν γι άλλη μια φορά.

Μα γιατί; Δεν ήτανε τόσο τρομερό και θαυμαστό το beta; Δεν έδειχνε πόσο ξεφτίλιζε το iPhone; Δεν έδειχνε πόσο ΚΑΚΙΑ και ΚΛΕΙΣΤΗ είναι η Apple; Μα γιατί αργεί να βγάλει αυτό το μοναδικό προϊόν εκεί έξω και να ταπεινώσει την κακία και κλειστή Apple μια και για πάντα;

ΖΩΑ!

Απλά αποδεικνύεται πόσο δίκιο έχει η Apple που αποκαλεί(;) την Adobe τεμπέλη και πολύ καλά κάνει και αποκλείει όλες τις αντίστοιχες σαβούρες από το iPhone SDK.

ΜΑΚΑΡΙ να έκανε και το ίδιο στο Mac OS. ΜΑΚΑΡΙ!

Έχει γεμίσει ο τόπος καθυστερημένους προγραμματιστές και χρήστες εκεί έξω της ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΑ πληροφορικής.

ΖΩΑ!

Το iPad είναι το μέλλον!

The cultural gabbers knew their "unboxing" was an epic fail. But they didn't seem to realize that the conversation about the tablet that ensued was an even bigger failure. They accepted as fact the false idea that the iPad is for content consumption only, and spent the remaining 20 minutes or so talking about whether a device useful exclusively for creating content is OK. One gabber talked about how people need to write e-mails and other things, adding, "I just don't think people are going to give that up."

Slate employs some of the most brilliant journalists working today. Where did they hear that using an iPad means giving up e-mail? They didn't. It's wishful thinking.

Does the tone of all this sound familiar? This is exactly the kind of irrational, knee-jerk opposition that greets all democratizing new forms of content creation.

When blogs first hit, professional journalists slammed the medium as dumbed down proof of the coming idiocracy. But now nearly all journalists and news publications have blogs. TV news commentators first laughed at Twitter as a place where people only broadcast the minutia of their daily lives. Now CNN has entire shows built around Twitter.

It's important to understand who these people are. They're the same kind of people who said automobiles are just a fad, who said nobody wants to hear movie actors talk, who said graphical computing isn't real computing. They believe themselves to be enlightened skeptics. In fact, they're just the kind of people that always come out of the woodwork when something breathtakingly new emerges. They can't see -- refuse to see -- the obvious possibilities in the new because it threatens their advantages in the old.

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Το παραπάνω άρθρο απλά περιγράφει αυτούς που αποκαλώ εγώ σαν πρόβατα ή τους "ειδικούς" της πληροφορικής.

Εννοείται ότι το iPad είναι το μέλλον της πληροφορικής και θα κάψει πολλές καρδιές και μυαλά εκεί έξω. ΕΥΤΥΧΩΣ!

Όχι άλλο κάρβουνο τύπου Windows. Μαυρίσαμε τα πάντα με το κάρβουνο των Windows.

Σημείωση ότι όλα τα αρνητικά που ακούγονται για το iPad είναι τα ίδια και τα ίδια που ακούμε χρόνια τώρα για το Mac, το iPod, το iPhone, κλπ. Για την ακρίβεια οτιδήποτε δεν έχει σχέση με την Micro$oft = Άχρηστο. Δυστυχώς για τους "ειδικούς" που από μόνοι τους βγάζουν τα μάτια τους και χρόνο με το χρόνο όλο και περισσότερος κόσμος πηδάει από τον Τιτανικό που λέγεται Micro$oft.

Περαστικά τους.

Πάμε στα κύματα;

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Για γνωστούς, συγγενείς, φίλους, κλπ.

Άντε... Για όλους σας.

iPad. iPad. iPad Παντού...

Δεν έχει iPad για την Ευρώπη μέχρι το τέλος του Μαΐου

Apple today released the following statement:

Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.

Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.

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Τα νεύρα μου!!! Θέλω iPad ΤΩΡΑ!!!

Τουλάχιστον έχω να παίζω με τα νέα MacBook Pro ΑΜΕΣΑ!

Crysis 2

Video Games | Crysis 2 | The Wall Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Και για XBOX 360 και PS3. Όχι μόνο για τα Windows PC. Απορώ γιατί! Αφού οι παιχνιδομηχανές δεν είναι τόσο καλές για παιχνίδια. Τα Windows PC είναι.

Για σφαλιάρες είστε. Από την άλλη σας ευχαριστώ που έρχεστε στα λόγια μου όσο περνάει ο καιρός.

Καλώς τους βρε. Καλώς τους και ας άργησαν. Μπεεεε.

Δεν παίζεστε!

Είστε Θεοί. Πραγματικά.

ΘΕΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΒΛΑΚΕΙΑΣ!!!

Μου έχετε σπάσει τα νεύρα τον τελευταίο καιρό με τις αλλαγές που έκανε λέει η Apple στο iPhone OS license κλπ. Και για πολλοστή φορά αποδεικνύεται πόσο κλειστή είναι η Apple. Αυτό κι εκείνο.

ΤΟΝ ΚΑΚΟ ΣΑΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΑΙΡΟ.

ΖΩΑ.

Μπορείτε να μου πείτε πόσο κλειστές είναι οι:

1. C;
2. C++;
3. JavaScript;

Επιτρέψτε μου να σας πω εγώ.

ΚΑΘΟΛΟΥ ΚΛΕΙΣΤΕΣ!

Αν κάποιος κάνει προγραμματισμό με τα παραπάνω εργαλεία μπορεί να κάνει εφαρμογές που θα παίζουν ΠΑΝΤΟΥ και ΙΣΩΣ για ΠΑΝΤΑ.

Όσο για το άλλο το ανέκδοτο για την Adobe και το σιχαμένο Flash τους, μπορούν να πάνε να πνιγούν.

Γιατί μπορεί εσείς τα υπόλοιπα παιδάκια να ήρθατε στα Mac πριν 4-5 χρόνια και να μην ξέρετε το πόσο πίσω μας έχει κρατήσει η Adobe και η Micro$oft έστω στην Apple πληροφορική αλλά εμείς παίζουμε μπάλα από αρχές δεκαετίας του '80 και ξέρουμε πότε και αν η Adobe υποστήριξε την Apple και με ποιους τρόπους. Πάρτε παράδειγμα ΜΕΧΡΙ και το Adobe CS5. ΑΚΟΜΗ ΔΕΝ είναι 100% Mac εφαρμογές και ίσως ΠΟΤΕ να μην γίνουν. ΜΗΝ σώσουν και γίνουν.

iStaTsakidia Adobe, Micro$oft και όποιες άλλες εταιρίες το παίζουν ιστορία στην Apple.

Εύχομαι η Apple να τους πατήσει μέχρι εκεί που δεν παίρνει ΜΠΑΣ και βάλουν μυαλό και αυτοί και εσείς.

Έτσι ίσως δούμε μια άσπρη μέρα στην πληροφορική.

Εγώ πάντως δεν το βλέπω. Όσο και να τους πατάει η Apple τα ζώα είναι ζώα.

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Κομμένα τα πολλά νέα. Λίγα και όποτε μπορώ!

Ask any PC-loving computer nerd why Apple products have become the de facto choice of the masses, and you’ll likely hear something like, “People buy Apple products because they’re pretty.” That may be true for many, but one group of consumers who care little for Apple’s prodigious aesthetics are the blind.

They care more about how Apple products actually work. And while the iPad may be Apple's most controversial launch in recent memory, the blind community is unanimous in its support. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) even released a statement last January praising the device.

What are they so excited about?

First, consider what an e-reader represents to the blind community. The concept of an affordable, portable device that allows the visually impaired to consume media easily and without special consideration is an exciting proposition, but one never fully realized. In fact, Amazon’s Kindle, which until the iPad’s release was the most acclaimed and full-featured e-reader, had high potential for capturing the hearts of the 314 million visually impaired persons around the world. Instead, Amazon failed to fully consider what would be required for a blind person to successfully navigate the Kindle’s menus without assistance. While magazines, books and newspapers had full voice integration, allowing easy listening of all text, Amazon provided no way to enter a publication from the Kindle’s home screen. What good is a reader to someone who is blind if it requires a seeing person to get to the first page, let alone turn that page?

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Απλά είναι τα πράγματα. Το iPad για εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους κάνει και θα κάνει την διαφορά όταν ΟΛΕΣ οι υπόλοιπες εταιρίες τους έχουν γραμμένους. Τουλάχιστον.

Με λίγα λόγια η Apple βοηθάει τους τυφλούς όταν οι υπόλοιποι τους έχουν γραμμένους κανονικά.

Πως τον μήνυσε το Facebook

I'm a software engineer, my last job was at Apple but for the last two years I've been working on my own startup called Mailana. The name comes from 'Mail Analysis', and my goal has been to use the data sitting around in all our inboxes to help us in our day-to-day lives. I spent the first year trying (and failing) to get a toe-hold in the enterprise market. Last year I moved to Boulder to go through the Techstars startup program, where I met Antony Brydon, the former CEO of Visible Path. He described the immense difficulties they'd faced with the enterprise market, which persuaded me to re-focus on the consumer side.

I'd already applied the same technology to Twitter to produce graphs showing who people talked to, and how their friends were clustered into groups. I set out to build that into a fully-fledged service, analyzing people's Twitter, Facebook and webmail communications to understand and help maintain their social networks. It offered features like identifying your inner circle so you could read a stream of just their updates, reminding you when you were falling out of touch with people you'd previously talked to a lot, and giving you information about people you'd just met.

It was the last feature that led me to crawl Facebook. When I meet someone for the first time, I'll often Google their name to find their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, and maybe Facebook too if it's a social contact rather than business. I wanted to automate that Googling process, so for every new person I started communicating with, I could easily follow or friend them on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. My first thought was to use one of the search engine APIs, but I quickly discovered that they only offer very limited results compared to their web interfaces.

I scratched my head a bit and thought "well, how hard can it be to build my own search engine?". As it turned out, it was very easy. Checking Facebook's robot.txt, they welcome the web crawlers that search engines use to gather their data, so I wrote my own in PHP (very similar to this Google Profile crawler I open-sourced) and left it running for about 6 months. Initially all I wanted to gather was people's names and locations so I could search on those to find public profiles. Talking to a few other startups they also needed the same sort of service so I started looking into either exposing a search API or sharing that sort of 'phone book for the internet' information with them.

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South Park λέμε. Τα λένε όλα. Δεν καταλαβαίνουν τίποτα.

South Park VS Facebook

Tonight, South Park made comment on Facebook and its obsessives by brilliantly taking every ridiculous thing about what the social network has become and explaining it with hilariously awkward (and eerily accurate) "IRL" interactions. Inside, the best—and funniest—moments.

The advent and wildfire-like expansion of Facebook changed everything about how people interact these days—online, at least, but an argument can be made that it's affected the way people communicate in person, too—and also created many requisite "moments" that anyone with an account is likely to run into at one point or another. Here are five of them.

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