When you have linux there are some times you must find a way to do some things differently.

That time is one of those. Nikon firmwares are coming in exe files (windows) or mac files. But not linux.

But that doesn't mean you can't upgrade your firmware in your camera.

You need to do the following steps:

1. Download your firmware from the official link: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/index.html.
   
2. Download the Windows Firmware.
3. Copy the file to a new folder.
   
4. Open the terminal.
   
5. Go to the folder you put the folder (i.e. cd Desktop, cd Firmware).
6. Unpack the file with unrar e file.exe ( change "file" to what is the name of your filename of the firmware).
7. Format your SD card as per Nikon instructions within your camera.
   
8. Take out the sd card and put it into your PC.
9. Copy the two files that have been extracted (firmware.bin and gpsfirm.bin) to your sd card.
   
10. Then open your camera (with your sd card) and go to menu --> settings --> firmware.
    
11. And you will see the message to upgrade your firmware.
12. Don't close your camera until the upgrade is finished.
13. That's it how you do it from ubuntu.

Δεν υπάρχει τίποτα πιο ηλίθιο από την απόφαση της ΕΔΠΠΙ για μπλοκάρισμα 38 σελίδων για να βλέπει κάποιος ταινίες online ή να τις κατεβάζει στον υπολογιστή του... 

Και είναι ηλίθια απόφαση γιατί πολύ απλά είναι μια σταγόνα στον ωκεανό με τις ιστοσελίδες που υπάρχουν στο διαδίκτυο.

Παρ' όλα αυτά δεν υπάρχει λόγος κάποιος να θυμώσει ή να νευριάσει. Απλώς γράφουμε την απόφαση τους στα αρχ**ια μας.

Να σημειώσω εδώ πως προσωπικά δεν με νοιάζει αυτή η απόφαση πολύ διότι βλέπω μόνο streaming ταινίες και σειρές καθημερινά και έχω πάρα πολλές ιστοσελίδες που δεν έχουν μπλοκάρει... Απλώς γράφω αυτό το πόστ γιατί το θεωρώ άδικο για όλους τους φαν να βλέπουν ταινίες και σειρές online και δωρεάν.

Υπάρχουν 2 εύκολοι τρόποι για να αποκτήσετε άμεσα πρόσβαση στις αγαπημένες σας σελίδες:

1. Αλλάζουμε το dns με της google ή της cloudflare.
2. Βάζουμε κάποιο δωρεάν (ή με πληρωμή) VPN, όπως π.χ. Hotspot Shield VPN ή Touch VPN.

Και δώρο άλλες ιστοσελίδες που μπορείτε να δείτε ταινίες online:

• tvbox.ag/
• cine.to/
• yesmovies.to/
• watchenga.tv/en/

I am living in Greece, that means technologically we can't get all the features immediately but some months (or even years) later.

Also we have laws about privacy (some are from EU) which means some features we might never get it, like face recognition on Google Photos app (in Moments app - from Facebook we have face recognition).

But because i am taking many photos, it matters to me to have face recognition, so that trick below shows you how to activate the face recognition and it doesn't matter in which country you are (Greece, UK, Germany, etc).

1. Install TunnelBear VPN to your smartphone (it can work with every VPN app).
2. Create an account on VPN (It's free) and connect to USA.
3. Open Google Photos App to your smartphone and go to settings.
4. Then go to "Group Similar Faces" and enable the options it has inside.
5. Disconnect from VPN and remove it if you wish.
6. In Albums you will see the "People" album, which it might take few days to put the faces of your friends and people you took photo.

That's how it's working.

I inspired to write this blog post, because i have done it in my smartphone, and because of the following video.

That are the main reasons why i prefer Google Assistant rather than Amazon Alexa.

1. In my Country (Greece) both are not full supported and not working in my native language.
   
2. I am trying to be minimalist and synchronize all my data to google (gmail, google calendar, google photos, contacts, etc), that means when i am asking something google assistant it works better (knows who is my father, knows the birthday of my sister, can show me my photos of a place where i have gone - and that matters because i travel a lot and have thousands of photos, etc).
   
3. It has obviously more knowledge because it is using google search and can answer almost everything.
   
4. I find it more better as an assistant who knows everything, can answer almost everything, and can do a lot of things by itself rather than add skills (in Alexa).
   
5. Because i don't listen music (yes there are people who don't listen any music), i don't care about the music capabilities that can do each item of these two.

And since Google Assistant is new compared to Amazon Alexa, the following years will show us which is better and which can become even better and quicker.

But for now i vote for Google assistant. Because in few weeks already have gave me more free time, because it is answering quicker than to search things, or add events / reminders, or do things and routines, and many more things that have done easier my life.

Lately i have started to upload more often photos on my account on instagram. But because i have dslr and underwater compact camera, it was annoying to have to move on my smartphone or on google photos and later to download them on my smartphone so i can be able to upload them on instagram, since instagram doesn't have native app for ubuntu.

I tried many ways to do it directly from my computer, but only 2 ways had success.

The first was from google chrome to press right click on my mouse and select "inspect" and then press the small button on top-left which says "Toggle device toolbar" and choose from the console tab "Android Browser" so it can transform it into a mobile browser.

And the second it is the Ramme app from Github. It has an issue with javascript, and it shows a message but still it works perfect like to be inside the original instagram app on my phone. You can see the screenshot, where the last 2 photos have been uploaded with Ramme app on my ubuntu laptop.

And now finally i can upload easy all my photos directly from my computer.

Step 1: Install browser add-on

• For Google Chrome, Chromium, and Vivaldi: Chrome web store.
• For Firefox: Mozilla Addons.
• For Opera: Opera Addons

Step 2: Install native connector

​sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell

One of the greatest alternatives to Photoshop is Pixeluvo.

It's easier than photoshop and with the most features of it. Let's see if it will improve in the future! (i hope it will improve) 
And the best is, that is available for Windows and for Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora).
It is not free but the price is very good (about $32).

Δεν μπορώ να μην το σκέφτομαι τι μας περιμένει έτσι και βγει πρωθυπουργός ο Μητσοτάκης... 

• Περικοπές σε όλα τα επιδόματα αλλά και τις φορολοταρίες,
• Περικοπές σε συντάξεις και μισθούς.
• Μη μείωση των φόρων, αλλά πιθανή αύξηση τους.
• Τα χρήματα πάλι θα πηγαίνουν στις τσέπες των πολιτικών και των τραπεζών, αντί στους πολίτες μέσω των κοινωνικών εισοδημάτων αλληλεγγύης, κοινωνικών μερισμάτων και φορολοταρίας.
• Και γενικά ότι κάνει ο Τραμπ με τις αποφάσεις του Ομπάμα, το ίδιο σίγουρα θα κάνει και ο Μητσοτάκης με τις αποφάσεις Τσίπρα. 

Το θέμα είναι, πόσοι τελικά είναι χαζοί πολίτες θα τον ψηφίσουν, ειδικά όταν η ΝΔ (μαζί με το ΠΑΣΟΚ) είναι υπεύθυνοι που μας φτάσαν εδώ και τόσα χρόνια ενώ θα μπορούσαν να κάνουν καλύτερα τα πράγματα, δεν κάναν τίποτα.
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Σαφώς και δεν υποστηρίζω τον ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, υποστηρίζω όμως τις πράξεις που έγιναν υπέρ των πολιτών. Ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ πήρε αρκετές σκληρές αποφάσεις αλλά το τελικό αποτέλεσμα μετράει...

Τώρα για το ποιος είναι καλύτερος; Σίγουρα όχι ο (Μίστερ Μπιν) Μητσοτάκης που αλίμονο μας έτσι και βγει ποτέ πρωθυπουργός!

I sent my name. You can send your name on https://mars.nasa.gov/syn/insight.