tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43115946788755802332024-02-07T05:28:45.632-08:00Giannis Kidonis HDGiannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-9125186322582940352016-01-19T13:58:00.001-08:002016-01-20T09:19:31.505-08:00Google Code In 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Code-in</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; line-height: 18.2px;"> is a contest for pre-university students. This year i am taking part in <b>GCI</b>! 14 open source organizations take part providing several tasks that are being completed by the students. Among these organizations is <b><a href="https://www.wikimedia.org/" target="_blank">Wikimedia</a></b>, for which i submit tasks.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">Personally, i really enjoyed the constest. It was a really nice experience from many aspects. Through the contest i have learned a bunch of things:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">1) How open source organizations work and how to contribute to them. Contribution can be achieved with different ways. For example, you can fix bugs in code, make the documentation better or make a research about a topic.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">2) How to use an <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/" target="_blank">IRC</a> channel in order to communicate with people that are also interested in making the open source organization better and help them or be helped. :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">3) How to use <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/" target="_blank">Phabricator</a>, <a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://git-scm.com/" target="_blank">GIT</a> and submit patches on <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/" target="_blank">Gerrit</a> (where patches are uploaded).</span><br />
<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">What is more i have completed a lot of interesting tasks. What i liked most was the internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) tasks. At first i though they were a little bit difficult but along the way i have figured out how to solve such problems.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">I think that documentation pages on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki" target="_blank">Mediawiki</a> generally provide sufficient information (e.g. <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial" target="_blank">Gerrit Tutorial</a>) that in conjuction with getting a little help from other users through IRC can lead to a good understanding of what you have to do in order to setup the development environment.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">I really recommend other students to take part in this contest for the days that are remaining or in the GCI 2016.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.2px;">I also intend to continue contributing to <b>Wikimedia</b> after the end of the contest either by helping to make documentation better or by uploading code patches.</span></span><br />
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Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-19040931315041756832014-06-25T14:37:00.001-07:002014-06-25T14:37:40.215-07:00Google I/O 2014: Android One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Android One: Really cheap smartphones with Dual SIM, SD Card, 4.5" screen and FM Radio... Coming soon.</div>
Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-8737473336261403612014-06-25T14:30:00.001-07:002014-06-25T14:42:10.697-07:00Google I/O 2014: Android L - Material Design<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-77981851983120158962014-06-20T06:24:00.005-07:002014-06-20T06:24:41.715-07:00Android KitKat 4.4.4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Not a month has past after Google released Android KitKat 4.4.3 and now we see another minor update - <b>Android KitKat 4.4.4</b> for <b>Nexus devices</b> (<i>Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10</i>). The update is about some minor security issues that are now fixed... Nexus users can download the 4.4.4 update from the website<b> <a href="https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images" target="_blank">Nexus Factory Image</a> </b>of Google Developers...</div>
Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-29370031104159069752014-06-18T01:50:00.002-07:002014-06-18T01:52:40.604-07:00LG G3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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LG has already announced the LG G3 in May and it is going to come out in June.<br />
G3 will feature a 5.5 inch screen with the resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels (QHD) and the pixel density of 534ppi! The display will also have a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.<br />
This beast will have a Snapdragon 801 chipset and a Quad-Core 2.5GHz Krait 400 CPU and an Andreno 330 GPU.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbOq6zc4kCGwszGcCbhz5cy9QILcwUp8uS_Pug7cAXXXNsYeSKfXwwClVQ3idQvq06bgzd4NylxPJxccouNW1PIN4Pp1JAU1Uz24NVzbTJTPYYtfI036L6iqdqoP8ciOuMiK0PpJak80/s1600/LG-G3-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbOq6zc4kCGwszGcCbhz5cy9QILcwUp8uS_Pug7cAXXXNsYeSKfXwwClVQ3idQvq06bgzd4NylxPJxccouNW1PIN4Pp1JAU1Uz24NVzbTJTPYYtfI036L6iqdqoP8ciOuMiK0PpJak80/s1600/LG-G3-.jpg" /></a>About the camera, it will feature a 13 megapixel rear camera with laser autofocus, OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) and dual-LED flash and a secondary 2.1 megapixel camera. It will be capable of recording 2160p video (30fps) or 1080p (30fps).<br />
There will be 2 models. The first one will have 16GB of internal memory and 2GB of RAM while the second will have 32GB of internal memory and 3GB of RAM.<br />
G3 will run Android 4.4.2 Kitkat and will have a Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery.<br />
It will be available in Metallic Black, Silk White, Shine Gold, Moon <br />
Violet, Burgundy Red.</div>
Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-78836226229363678892014-06-18T01:34:00.000-07:002014-06-18T01:34:01.958-07:00Samsung Galaxy S5 Korean Version<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Samsung unveils the new Galaxy S5 Korean Version with LTE-A capability.<br />
The Korean Galaxy S5 features a 5.1 inch Super AMOLED screen with extremely high-resolution QHD display (576ppi - super high). It will also have the Snapdragon 805 processor which is the latest Qualcomm's processor and it will support LTE-A speeds (225Mbps in Korea - the current LTE speeds are 75Mbps).<br />
The new Galaxy S5 will feature 3GB of RAM while the worldwide version has 2GB. As for the camera, it will have a 16 megapixel rear camera.<br />
The new beast will run Android 4.4 Kitkat.<br />
#KoreanGalaxyS5</div>
Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-12470651892994487202014-06-06T02:07:00.001-07:002014-06-06T02:09:18.210-07:00Acer Liquid E700<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Acer Liquid E700</b>, which will be released very soon(probably in August), is the <b>Triple SIM</b> smartphone. It will also have a <b>5.0 inch IPS</b> display with the pixel density of ~<b>294ppi </b>(pretty low) with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. <b>Expandable storage</b> will also be available (up to 32Gb microSd) while the internal storage will be <b>16Gb</b> and it will have <b>2Gb of RAM</b>.<br />
About the camera..It will feature a<b> rear 8mp</b> camera with <b>autofocus</b> and<b> LED flash</b> and a <b>front 2mp</b> camera with <b>LED flash</b>.<br />
The chipset of the Acer Liquid E700 will be <b>Mediatek MT6582</b> featuring a <b>Quadcore 1.2GHz CPU</b> and a <b>Mali-400 GPU</b>. Another really interenting feature of Acer Liquid E700 is the <b>Li-ion 3.500 mAh battery</b>.<br />
As for the OS part, Liquid E700 will come out with <b>Android Kitkat 4.4.2</b>.<br />
We could say that Liquid E700 is really light and thin too and its price will be around <b>199</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', proxima-nova, proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><b>€</b>!</span></div>
Giannis Kidonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862319442192286247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311594678875580233.post-5512004083899769722014-06-05T14:25:00.001-07:002014-06-05T14:49:46.593-07:00Android 4.4.3 OTA update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The latest <b>Google's Android Kitkat 4.4.3</b> OTA (Over-The-Air) update has started. The first devices to receive the update will be the nexus devices: <b>Nexus 5</b>, <b>Nexus 7 (2013)</b> as well as the <b>Google Play Edition</b> Smartphones and the <b>Motorolla Moto G</b>, <b>Moto X </b>and <b>Moto E</b>. The update will roll out in a few days and it is going to fix some bugs of Kitkat 4.4.2...<br />
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