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Take Back The Tech!

Take Back The Tech! is a campaign running from 25 November to 10 December 2006 to raise awareness of the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in ending violence against women. “Take Back The Tech!” is initiated and organised by the Association for Progressive Communications, Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), which …

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Improving DejaVu Serif for Greek

Vangelis Karageorgos  sent an e-mail to the DejaVu Fonts mailing list regarding his work on the Greek glyphs for the DejaVu Serif face. The original Greek glyphs from DejaVu Serif 2.12 look like The edition of DejaVu Serif (Greek) by Vangelis  Karageorgos look like Ben Laenen from the DejaVu project, an  gave the following comments/advice …

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GMail J2ME application for your phone

Update 2010: Link to .jar file (if you want to install using phone cable or Bluetooth): http://m.google.com/mail/download/binaries/L1/2.0.6/mail_n60-3.jar Older post continues… Google started offering a new service for GMail users; you can download a J2ME application to your mobile phone and start browsing your mails. You do not need to connect through the web interface. You …

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μπλογκ μι!

Με ενδιαφέρον διαβάζω αυτά που συνέβησαν στον ιδιοκτήτη του blogme.gr. Όπως φαίνεται, το ζήτημα έχει να κάνει με ακατάλληλες ενέργειες στην αντιμετώπιση της μήνυσης από τις αστυνομικές αρχές. Αντί το θέμα να κλείσει, άρχισε να φουντώνει. Φαίνεται ότι δεν υπάρχει κάποια συμβουλευτική “υπηρεσία” που να μπορεί να εξηγήσει σε αυτούς που χρειάζεται το τί πράγματι …

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Updated my WordPress!

I updated my WordPress to the latest version 2.0.5. The process was painless though I have a load of plugins up and running. Simossimos.info

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The Junicode Greek Project

What’s Junicode? Well, Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists. The current version is a beta; the selection of characters and the arrangement of the Private Use Area are subject to change. Your comments, suggestions and bug reports will be a great help to me as I complete the project. Source: http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ …

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