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Domains and Webhosting #1

You plan to buy a domain and you are looking a good company to make bussiness with? When buying a domain, you essentially rent it. That is, you pay an amount of money which gives you ownership from one to ten years. The most common situation is when you pay per year and therefore renew …

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Mydomain sucks!

No, it’s not my domain that sucks, it’s mydomain.com sucks, a web-hosting company. Last June I chose mydomain.com to move my website to, as they had a special offer for a domain transfer and webhosting. Since my needs for my Website were specific, I gladly accepted the offer. Since then, the service was good; I …

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ISO/IEC 26300

The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard has now been adopted by ISO/IEC! Washington, DC – The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of associations, academic institutions and industry dedicated to solving the problem of improving access and retrieval of electronic government documents, today congratulated the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for its sweeping …

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Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

When you choose a font in the Font Preferences, you can find a sample text that displays all the letters of the current system language. In this way, you are able to to have a good understanding of how a font looks like. Such phrases are called Pangrams, meaning contains all the letters. The most …

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Unicode και ελεύθερο λογισμικό

This web site provides information about Unicode fonts, Unicode-enabled software, internationalization, and Unicode usability issues on free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems. Ο Ed Trager μόλις δημοσίευσε το νέο δικτυακό τόπο που περιλαμβάνει υλικό για Unicode και ελεύθερο λογισμικό. Θα βρείτε πληροφορίες για την καλύτερη χρήση Unicode στο σύστημά σας, οδηγό γραμματοσειρών καθώς και εφαρμογή για …

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Νέες ελεύθερες γραμματοσειρές από SIL International

Δύο νέες γραμματοσειρές έγιναν διαθέσιμες από το SIL International, Charis SIL Doulos SIL  μέσω της άδειας διάθεσης γραμματοσειρών Open Font License (OFL), Όπου βλέπετε το σήμα ofl, είστε σίγουροι ότι η γραμματοσειρά είναι πραγματικά ελεύθερη. Οι δύο αυτές γραμματοσειρές δεν έχουν πλήρη υποστήριξη για ελληνικά (μονοτονικό). Περιλαμβάνουν όμως μεγάλη ποικιλία από άλλους χαρακτήρες. Simossimos.info

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