Just got the following e-mail offer from Amazon.com regarding the cool Parrot AR.Drone quad(ri)copter. Note the part “You Save: $0.04”. That’s what you get when you have automated pricing (hint: follow this link for an even more #LOL example). Tagged: Amazon, AR.Drone, Fail, Funny, Parrot, Pricing

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Since IE9 final version is being released today (http://www.beautyoftheweb.com), here are some HTML5 showcases from different browser makers to test it out against: Microsoft: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive Mozilla: https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US Google: http://www.html5rocks.com / http://studio.html5rocks.com Apple: http://www.apple.com/html5 ...

For those who wonder what E-Slate is, it’s a componentized authoring environment for the creation of (interactive) educational microworlds, see my previous post for more info. As I mentioned at that post, the latest official version (ignoring any unofficial / experimental versions that you might find around at some educational research labs’ ...

E-Slate (http://e-slate.cti.gr) is an exploratory learning environment. It provides a workbench for creating highly dynamic software with rich functionality, even by non-programmers. Educational activity ideas can be turned into software, with minimal authoring effort, in the form of interactive Microworlds which contain specially designed ...

Από τον Κώδικα Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας (http://www.yme.gr/imagebank/categories/KOK_pdf.pdf), διαβάζω για πρόβλεψη ίδρυσης φορέα διαχείρισης και διάχυσης πληροφοριών (υποθέτω εννοεί ως OpenData) κυκλοφοριακής κίνησης κλπ. Άρθρo 108 Kέντρo Oδικών Πληρoφoριών 1. Mε κoινή απόφαση των Yπoυργών Oικoνoμικών, Περιβάλλoντoς, Χωρoταξίας και Δημόσιων Έργων, ...

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) has at last introduced a nice download manager, as shown below. This was long needed, since in IE8 there were cases were downloads with the same filename, when launched from different windows, could get corrupted. The download manager will also show resume download button when needed. IE8 could also resume downloads, [...]

Can you spot any difference at the following two Internet shortcuts on my desktop? I can’t either. Note that the two files have the same “name”, but different file extension (invisible when using default Windows Explorer folder view settings). The one uses “.url” (classic Internet Explorer webpage shortcut), while the other one, created by ...

Strange IE9 RC bug: visited http://www.vodafone.gr/portal/client/cms/viewCmsPage.action?pageId=0515 (via http://bit.ly/vodafone1kai1_xatzigiannis) and then clicked back several times seeing the above strange back/forward buttons (red color) and a Vodafone icon prefixed before them! Closing the window fixed the issue. Are they using some hidden ...

Πρόσφατα έκανα κριτική ανάγνωση (review) μιας προτεινόμενης δημοσίευσης για το συνέδριο ΤΠΕ-Ε 2011 (http://www.ekped.gr/?p=202), που είχε σχέση με την πρόσληψη της έννοιας του φωτός και της σκιάς από τα νήπια. Ανέφερε πως έχουν πρόβλημα να οπτικοποιήσουν νοητά το φως ως “ακτίνες” (όχι ότι είναι ακριβώς ακτίνες βέβαια, κύμα είναι) και τη διάδοση ...

After upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE9 RC on my Windows 7 Ultimate, I right-clicked Command bar of IE9 RC (can show that bar by right clicking at the empty are on the right of the address bar and select it) and selected “Customize Toolbar”. It showed the following dialog:   First thing I [...]

Just installed Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC), found the link at: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/internet-explorer-9-rc-available-for-download/11349 Was amazed by it’s performance and clean GUI (especially the choice to move the yellow warning bar to the bottom and make it of smaller width than the browser window in order to ...

Lately, several posts (e.g. http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2011/01/09/windows-phone-7-3g-woes.html) were mentioning issues with overcharging related to cellular data connection usage of Windows Phone 7. From what I read later on, after looking into those incidents, Microsoft said that a certain popular application has been identified that was ...

Με αφορμή το http://twitter.com/Zoomicon/status/27647014502137856 απάντησα στη διαβούλευση της ΕΕ “Future EU co-financing of Natura 2000” http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=FinanceN2K (ανοικτή έως 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2011) τα παρακάτω:   Future EU co-financing of Natura 2000   Meta Informations Creation date 19-01-2011 Last ...

WordPress just asked me to moderate a comment saying "of the many video clips that i download, i always watch those that are very funny" (with some emoticon ASCII chars following it). It was a comment on a post of mine about LvS which is related to video, so it looked ok, but the URL [...]

Seems that day (8 Aug 2010), Google Maps system had been drinking or something, else I can’t explain how “Cara Oasis” and other exotic place names (in Arabic script?) were rendered onto a map for the outskirts of Patras, Greece.

Sometime ago I got the above error screen (after clicking on the error notice at the statusbar) on IE8/Vista at the new Twitter UI (aka #NewTwitter). Exactly what does “The disk is full.” error mean to say? Wonder if twimg.com (probably used to host images served by Twitter like avatar images) was itself running out [...]

At Office (2007) Diagnostics tests I’d expect more fine-grained status codes (rather than a mere “Completed”) so that the Summary view wouldn’t mislead you to think all the identified problems have been corrected. After all not many people would click on the “Detailed results” based on the falsely positive summary as pictured above.

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