I just got an (overpriced) Philips PTA01 USB adapter the other day to make my Philips Smart TV also work wirelessly (apart from via Ethernet cable) and it came with the Philips MediaConnect software on a CD, or at least I thought so till I placed the CD in my computer. I then found out [...]

Πρόταση μου στην 3η φάση (κατά της γραφειοκρατίας) του labs.opengov.gr: Προτείνω ένα online σύστημα με χάρτες με δυνατότητα αιτήσεων για σήματοδότηση, πεζοδρόμηση, υποδομές ΑμΕΑ κτλ. Να ειδοποιείται αυτόματα από το GIS σύστημα ο υπεύθυνος φορέας (δεν βλέπω γιατί πρέπει να νοιάζει τον πολίτη σε ποιόν φορέα ανήκει ο κάθε δρόμος!) και να πρέπει ...

Here’s an interesting note found at some product packaging accompanying leaflet: The symbol of the “rubbish bin on wheels, barred with a a black bar shown under the bin” indicates that this equipment has been put on sale after 13th August 2005, and must be recycled.

EEA has produced a useful interactive map of water quality called Eye on Earth – Water Watch with the nice feature of user comments / voting on river or sea beaches’ quality. They use Virtual Earth technology, now called Bing Maps as it seems, since Microsoft has integrated it into the Bing search engine (for more apps using this technology see ...