It’s been eight months since my related post Macbook Air: do we need the click button? and Apple has just announced that removes the “click buttom” from the trackpad area in the new Macbook. In this way, Apple is providing us with 39% more space for the multi-touch gestures.

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If you ever designed and sliced a website mockup in Photoshop running on Mac OS X then you probably faced this: you have prepared the slices and you have exported them but the result looks a bit washed out, especially on Windows. This is not a misfuction or a bug as many tend to believe; this is how things are supposed to work.

If you google it, you will come across [...]

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 [...]

Strange and weird, but true! I was totally surprised yesterday to read that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer has successfully passed the Acid2 Face test. As you understand, these good news allow web developers to reasonably hope that IE will soon become (hopefully, in a few months) a standards-compliant browser.

Don’t get me wrong, but it sounds like a good joke to me; Internet Explorer becomes a standards compliant [...]

After three months of absence and inactivity I am back. Every once in a while, I need a little break almost from everything in order to refresh and organize my self as well as to take a look forward in my life.

A lot of things happened during the last three months. Once again, I abandoned an open source application which meant a lot to me but I still hesitate to [...]

I just received my first SMS spam message in english by “Mr. P. Chan”

Att: I’m Chan from Hong Kong, I have a business proposal for you, should you be interested kindly contact me for further details partickwchank@yahoo.com.hk

Regards

Anyway, back to work

Update: I keep getting these annoying messages from several persons around the world that have an interesting business proposals for me I may change my cellphone number.

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 [...]