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Impressed by the new Blackberry OS (or how iOS ate dust)

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 25, 2012August 25, 2012

Since my last post you must already know that I was porting Pop Corny to Blackberry. I can’t hide that I was really impressed by the way the platform is engineered. You know you have done something right when it allows a developer that had never even used the platform, come in and port his […]

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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 6, 2008February 6, 2008

According to this press release, nVidia will acquire Ageia Technologies. Yeap! The well known physics software and hardware vendor. In my mind this means that the future nVidia based accelerators will support physics acceleration, too. It will basically mean the death of the PhysX processor, since the GPU can do that easily with no extra […]

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Disabling the NVIDIA System Sentinel Power Indicator

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 23, 2007October 24, 2007

If you remember my last post about the power indicator problem I have, with my nVidia based video card, I finally managed to fix it! I noticed that in the list of services in the control panel, nVidia installs a service. It turns out that this service is displaying the annoying error message. So I […]

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Nokia 6300 Can’t Use Bluetooth Handsfree

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 3, 2007October 4, 2007

Crap! Remember my post the other day about the bluetooth handsfree (Nokia BH-700) I bought? It turns out that my Nokia 6300 has a major problem with bluetooth handsfrees. At the beginning I thought it was the handsfree that had the problem but its the phone. From the time I started using it people was […]

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iPhone and Usability

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 3, 2007

I was looking at all this ads and videos on YouTube about the iPhone and I must say it is a wonderful gadget! It surely can make gadgets freaks like me loose sleep. I would have stop sleeping until we have them in Greece, if I wasn’t precautions about the usability a touch screen can […]

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My nVidia 7600 Runs With a Carburetor

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 26, 2007September 26, 2007

As the days get colder and colder I’m starting to have a problem with my video card. Yes I know that sound controversial, since it should be the other way around, but its true. It seems that my nVidia 7600 based card is like the old carburetor based cars that don’t run good until the […]

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The new PC arrived!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 11, 2006October 11, 2006

I just got the new PC for the office… Check this specs out : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 1GB RAM 150 GB HDD and the video graphics accelerator beast!!! : NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 with 1GB Video RAM I can tell you the performance is mind blowing! I get 500 frames/s […]

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Programmable GPUs and the programming method

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on May 12, 2006May 12, 2006

Working heavily on pixel shaders the last few days, I came to realize some facts about the current way of treating the GPUs and how that way is inefficient/impractical and really doesn’t allow us to fully harness the powers of GPUs.