Marios Tziortzis

Recently I noticed a pattern on my Mac. Every time I saw my dock or even my process list I noticed something weird. A lot of my running applications where influenced by mother nature and especially animals. I then opened my Applications directory to see what else was in there that resembled animals or something similar. I was really surprised with my findings. After a bit more research I compiled a list of the top animal kingdom influenced Mac Apps. Note that some of these apps come also to Windows, Linux and even mobile platforms. Continue Reading [...]

Today I thought I'd post something different from my usual posts. If you really know me you'd know that I'm a TV series junkie. I watch and follow lots of TV series and sometimes I get overexcited with the plot and the characters. There are some good shows out there and I'm watching most of them :P Recently I had a small chat with some friends about the Heroes narrator. We all agreed that he was Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy). The thing that confused as though was the credits at the beginning. A lot of episodes gave credit to a 'Voice of Shenkar'. Since we never saw this Shenkar character I had to investigate to see who he has. I now know who he is and why he gets credited. Continue Reading [...]

A couple of months ago I wrote this article about tips and tricks for new Mac users. I got a lot of feedback through my blog but also a lot of people told me in person that they found useful tips. People seem to like that post. This time I will give you some more tips that might help you even more. These tips would be for new and even more advance Mac users. Again, like the previous post, some of these tips might be well known whereas some others might be new to you. Either case I hope you find something useful. Continue Reading [...]

As many of you might know by now, I'll continue my studies to the University of Surrey, following an MSc degree in Internet Computing. The academic year starts in a few weeks. Since my first design for this site was released almost two years ago, when I first started my BSc course,  I thought it would be nice to start fresh with a new design following some of the current web trends. I'm really pleased with the outcome and really happy to know that people liked it from day one when it was still a PSD file :P . Continue reading to find out more geeky facts about the whole redesign process. Continue Reading [...]

A couple of weeks ago I came across HDR Creme. It's a site that features some of the best HDR photos. HDR is not something new to me. It always fascinated me. I knew how it was done and had all the required software from day one. I never gave it a try though because I didn't take any 'HDR worthwhile' photos. Lately though, I purchased a new lens which is somehow essential for HDR. The lens is a Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6, that is a wide angle lens suitable for landscapes. After some experimenting I am finally pleased with some HDR photos that I produced. Read on to see what can be achieved with HDR photography.

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A couple of days ago, a good friend of mine called me asking for my help. He said that I was the only one that could help him. He received a GPS device from the UK and he wanted to update it so he could use it in Cyprus. I had no idea what these things were running on and if they could be moded. This seemed like a challenge and a cool project to work on. After some 'googling' and some forum searching, I knew what I had to do. In this post I will show you what I did to hack this device and add maps for your country. Also this post will help users from Cyprus to have a working GPS device with Cyprus' map. Continue Reading [...]