Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA pair of good headphones, both over the head and earbuds, with good noise cancelation is an essential accessory for our home cinema room. There are times when we must keep the sound in the home cinema room at very Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited Vienna from the 29th of December till the 6th of January 2024. The New Year eve was impressive as is Vienna in general. During all these days I continuously walked throughout the city, enjoying Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesSmart lighting is essential for home cinema (see previous posts). One elegant smart light which is essential for the decoration and function of the home cinema room is the Govee Neon Led Strip Light. This strip Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe movie Die Hard is an action thriller. It appeared in the cinemas 35 years ago, in 1988 (by Twentieth Century Fox, Gordon Company, Silver Pictures). The protagonist The protagonist is the one and only Bruce Willis. He plays John Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie Charlie Chaplin was the first international movie star, inasmuch as everybody in the world needed no translation to understand the humor and the humanitarian feelings of his silent movies. This was especially true of his instantly recognizable figure, Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesA windows PC is for me the heart of the home cinema. It has the power to handle everything related to home cinema including gaming. Its use is easy, and most people know how to use it. The main parts Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesSmart home market According to Earthweb, the world smart home market amounted to 98 billion USD in 2020 and is expected to reach 495 billion by 2028. The smart home market is generally dominated by big companies such as Google Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudying at McGill In autumn 1981 I started my MSc in the Institute of Oceanography at McGill University. I flew from Athens to Montreal a few days before the release of the first IBM computer running MS Dos, on the Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe movie The science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey , released in1968, was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The cast includes Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester. Although at that time it was not possible to have computer-generated special Read more