My big fun Greek Engagement Day

This past Saturday I had the most enjoyable day during my formal engagement to my lovely Anta. Here are the pictures to prove it.

My Lovely Anta

The happy new couple getting ready for the ceremony

The best man and best lady ( koumparoi ) George and Maria.

the ceremony itself ( our koumparoi give us the rings )

Family photo op

Friends photo op

Mother's photo moment

The engagement cake

The happy couple ( that's us ) cutting the cake

Our dog Rubby looking festive and all

Don't we look darling ? Of course we do, we just got engaged !!

SkypeOut calls to Greece improved heavily.

A few months ago I opened a Skype account and added some SkypeOut credits just to test the service. I was interested in the voice quality of the SkypeOut service ( calls to landlines and cell phones ) for Greek lines since I have no real interest on International calls. My first impressions were quite bad since I would encounter some heavy lagging and my voice would sound as if it was processed through a time distortion filter and it came out sloooow. My connection was a 384Kb ADSL one and although it seemed adequate enough for the job the final result was bad.

Last week my SkypeOut credit was about to expire and I thought of using them up and give the service a second chance. I was completely blown away. The quality of the calls had sky-rocketed, there was no lagging ( except some mild lagging on a cell phone ) and the overall experience made a 180 degrees turn. I have to mention though that my current connection is a 1Mb ADSL one and that might have contributed too. In any case I can now recommend using Skype for your International calls to Greece and for your local needs as long as you have a fast connection.

Must See Photoshop TV. New iptv project about Photoshop seems quite promising.

I found out about this one by searching through the various weblogs.inc sidebar and finding a special Photoshop weblog and RSS feed . On that page I saw a listing named PhotoshopTV and I thought of giving it a try. The program is in .mp4 and .m4v video formats so you might want to download vlc media player to play it on Windows. If you have a Mac or iTunes try a search on the video page on Photoshop, it's bound to come up. All around a quite informative show with the extra feature of video tutorials ( that way you can see what they are talking about ). If you happen to be a photoshop user with a fast connection give it a try.