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Macbook Air: do we need the click button?

Two weeks ago Steve Jobs announced “the world’s thinnest notebook”, the Macbook Air and of course we all loved it.

The one thing I admire the most on the brand new Macbook Air is its trackpad. As you may know the Macbook Air comes with an extreme trackpad where you can perform a variety of finger gestures like those in iPhone. Obviously, such features not only bring trackpads to [...]


Money first, then credit card

My adaption process in Cyprus was smoother than I expected. After three weeks home, I feel like that I never left Cyprus despite the fact that I still get frustrated with some things. A great example of these, are ATMs which their operational mechanism has been altered recently.

In fact, some ATMs provide your money first and then your credit card which I find very [...]


The Little Moo

Today I decided to spend £13.00 and order a set mini cards from the popular service MOO – We love to print. I found the interface pretty simple; it took me less than five minutes to choose the background images (from my Flickr account), crop them and personalize my card. However, I would like to be able to further customize the text on the card and particularly to use [...]


Web Operating Systems

Recently, I was having a look at the most popular Web Operating Systems (also known as WebOS) such as EyeOS and YouOS. Some of them look really impressive, some of them are bit ugly but the raising question is: Do we really need just another operating system inside our browser?

Personally, I can’t see any use in the concept of Web Operating Systems at the moment. As many [...]


London 2012: where is the creativity?

I am sure that I am not the only one, but I find the London 2012 logos very plain and poorly designed. It seems like the London 2012 Olympic Committee assigned the design of these logos to the very first person who asked for it… don’t get me wrong but I can not see any creativity or innovation in these logos. When taking into [...]