<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ohad Eder-Pressman</title><description>Ideas, hacks and stuff</description><link>https://www.ohad.com/</link><item><title>Voidware: This App Doesn&apos;t Exist</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/voidware/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/voidware/</guid><description>Last week I made a todo app appear out of thin air. No code. No database. No backend. Just an AI hallucinating an entire application into existence, one request at a time.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Terrain – iPad app</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/terrain-ipad-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/terrain-ipad-app/</guid><description>I&apos;ve re-written my 10 year old Terrain-Engine as an iPad app. It uses OpenGL Shaders and was lots of fun to write.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google-Voice vs. Skype</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/google-voice-vs-skype/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/google-voice-vs-skype/</guid><description>I believe that in a few years Google-Voice (GV) will be significantly larger than it is now, and that will be due to growth in the Desktop/Mobile user segment not standard-phone users.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HTML5 Text Path demo</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/html5-text-path-demo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/html5-text-path-demo/</guid><description>I&apos;ve been experimenting with various HTML5 (specifically SVG and Canvas) elements recently and was looking at ways to fully control text in a dynamic and fast manner.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HTML5 Text Demo</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/html5-text-demo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/html5-text-demo/</guid><description>An interactive HTML5 demo using SVG and Raphael to render and layout text along a path, with controls for font size and text offset.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Countries, Approximate Lat-Lon and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/countries-approximate-lat-lon-and-iso-3166-1-alpha-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/countries-approximate-lat-lon-and-iso-3166-1-alpha-2/</guid><description>We&apos;re working on a visualization of real-time clicks on our http://appsto.re short URL. The cheap GeoIP database we use to convert IP address to geographical coordinates only gives us country-codes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What does Google Voice on your Desktop mean?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/what-does-google-voice-on-your-desktopmean/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/what-does-google-voice-on-your-desktopmean/</guid><description>It seems like Google is testing a Desktop Client for its Google Voice service. Google acquired a company called Gizmo5 some time ago specifically for this reason.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>7 things the iPad will change</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/7-things-the-ipad-will-change/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/7-things-the-ipad-will-change/</guid><description>There&apos;s so much commotion about the iPad that its hard to reduce its debut tomorrow to any single value proposition. I think the impact of this device on how we</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Explaining US car to Isralies</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/explaining-us-car-to-isralies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/explaining-us-car-to-isralies/</guid><description>US auto insurance is complex, there are many components and many prices. I avoided this for a while, but eventually sat down to understand WTF is going on here.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>twitpic and yfrog thumbnails</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/twitpic-and-yfrog-thumbnails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/twitpic-and-yfrog-thumbnails/</guid><description>my facebook newsfeed is full of twits with links to images hosted on twitpic and yfrog. both provide a simple way to get thumbnails from these links.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>nice San-Francisco quote</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/nice-san-francisco-quote/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/nice-san-francisco-quote/</guid><description>&quot;San Francisco is a city of misfits. And maybe thats why it&apos;s so easy to fit in here. If it feels weird, we loved having you. If it feels right, welcome home.&quot;</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Download Kindle books</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/download-kindle-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/download-kindle-books/</guid><description>just got my new Kindle 2 which is totally awesome. I found this website, http://manybooks.net/ which has tons of books from Project Gutenberg</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Visual comments in code</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/visual-comments-in-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/visual-comments-in-code/</guid><description>an idea i had a few years ago, bumped into it while skimming through my documents and figured its better online than offline.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>car details</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/car-details/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/car-details/</guid><description>we were looking to buy a car and rather than dumping the results in the recycle-bin here they are for the web-crawlers:</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Playing with Yahoo Pipes</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/playing-with-yahoo-pipes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/playing-with-yahoo-pipes/</guid><description>So I was sitting this Sunday afternoon, getting pissed that there&apos;s no easy way to monitor replies on Twitter. I talk with people there and there&apos;s no</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IM protocols, do they support dynamic embedded images?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/im-protocols-do-they-support-dynamic-embedded-images/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/im-protocols-do-they-support-dynamic-embedded-images/</guid><description>here&apos;s a scenario i&apos;d like to have: i&apos;m chatting with someone on IM, i want to show him something i&apos;m seeing on my screen, i hit ctrl+apple+shift+whatever...</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Multi-Core Software</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/multi-core-software/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/multi-core-software/</guid><description>It&apos;s a known fact that CPU cores are not going to see high increases in their singular power. The alternative chip-makers have come up with is multi-core</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where are the goddamn iPhone SDK Rules</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/where-are-the-goddamn-iphone-sdk-rules/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/where-are-the-goddamn-iphone-sdk-rules/</guid><description>This one&apos;s been burning through 5 seconds of my brain&apos;s CPU a day. I keep thinking of what they are going to allow us to develop and what they won&apos;t.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Youtube Bucket testing?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/youtube-bucket-testing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/youtube-bucket-testing/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>mobile applications soon to come</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/mobile-applications-soon-to-come/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/mobile-applications-soon-to-come/</guid><description>so the upcoming wealth of iPhone applications is going to be amazing, i have no doubt whatsoever.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>monetizing international users</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/monetizing-international-users/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/monetizing-international-users/</guid><description>that&apos;s it i&apos;m starting to post musings on my blog, as in i just lowered the barrier of entry for my thoughts into this blog.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>is it time for a new architecture for mobile web-widget-thingies?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/is-it-time-for-a-new-architecture-for-mobile-web-widget-thingies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/is-it-time-for-a-new-architecture-for-mobile-web-widget-thingies/</guid><description>The new Google search for iPhone is AJAX&apos;ish as it gets, well, almost. You still need to load up the google page.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>notes from a coder assembling a python web framework</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/notes-from-a-coder-assembling-a-python-web-framework/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/notes-from-a-coder-assembling-a-python-web-framework/</guid><description>i had this file on my desktop for a while and thought it was time to move it from there, and for some reason it came to my mind that its worth publi</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>1-Click TinyUrl + Twitter</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/1-click-tinyurl-twitter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/1-click-tinyurl-twitter/</guid><description>so me friends @ashafrir and @jeffpulver got me onto twitter a few weeks ago. it&apos;s not hard to notice that everyone and his sister are using tinyurl</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NetFlix are tracking interesting things on their site</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/netflix-are-tracking-interesting-things-on-their-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/netflix-are-tracking-interesting-things-on-their-site/</guid><description>Every web service provider, web application, content site and what not likes to collect data. Collecting data helps web sites to better understand their users.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>GOOG, Maps-Mobile, Locate-Me and revenue streams</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/goog-maps-mobile-locate-me-and-revenue-streams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/goog-maps-mobile-locate-me-and-revenue-streams/</guid><description>i will not capitalize my sentences, though i&apos;m still considering capitalizing the i&apos;s. i was writing a reply to my friend rani harpaz and figured its worth a post.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>fake it till you make it</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/fake-it-till-you-make-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/fake-it-till-you-make-it/</guid><description>windows-mobile guys want iphones</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>kindle haiku</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/kindle-haiku/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/kindle-haiku/</guid><description>this will be my first analytical haiku, i hope its better than my writeups.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>chat with gil-ad on web programming in israel, or lack thereof</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/chat-with-gil-ad-on-web-programming-in-israel-or-lack-thereof/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/chat-with-gil-ad-on-web-programming-in-israel-or-lack-thereof/</guid><description>israel is weird in that sense, it&apos;s funny because it shows a clear lack of understanding of the market. the way i look at it, web is just another platform.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>seasonal social apps</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/seasonal-social-apps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/seasonal-social-apps/</guid><description>if the guy who wrote an app that lets you carve Halloween pumpkins has over 100k daily active users, then seasonal facebook apps are a reality</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>steps toward scalability</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/steps-toward-scalability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/steps-toward-scalability/</guid><description>finally, facebook went ahead and took the step towards letting low-scale people/companies write scalable applications.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>facebook friend status on my desktop</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/facebook-friend-status-on-my-desktop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/facebook-friend-status-on-my-desktop/</guid><description>Facebook released RSS updates of friend statuses, so, me want play. geektool is a utility for OSX that allows you to throw any piece of information</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>craigslist minor changes</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/craigslist-minor-changes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/craigslist-minor-changes/</guid><description>just noticed two changes in craiglists.com, one for &apos;prettiness&apos; and one for &apos;cashiness&apos;.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook, value added services</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/facebook-value-added-services/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/facebook-value-added-services/</guid><description>i think one of the next things Facebook could do is offer services to companies who have lots of users already in Facebook.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>listplow</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/listplow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/listplow/</guid><description>i recently understood that i want to stop sending links to friends by email and wanted them to be able to consume my &apos;stuff&apos; in a much more convenient manner.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The big boys aren&apos;t afraid to use Flash</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/the-big-boys-arent-afraid-to-use-flash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/the-big-boys-arent-afraid-to-use-flash/</guid><description>Flash has been used for many years, mainly in online advertising, then in online games and most recently in online video sites.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OMG, LinkedIn has clusters</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/omg-linkedin-has-clusters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/omg-linkedin-has-clusters/</guid><description>the moment has come, i&apos;m really impressed. someone wanted to connect to me in linkedin. i went in, clicked OK, and then i get a screen saying this:</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>dog contemplating the universe</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/dog-contemplating-the-universe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/dog-contemplating-the-universe/</guid><description>the guy behind me on the plane had a dog, which took his chance at seeing the world from a new angle.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thank you for saving Urchin</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/thank-you-for-saving-urchin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/thank-you-for-saving-urchin/</guid><description>Whoever used Google Analytics up to 2 weeks ago, knows it mostly sucked big time. I moved to Analytics from StatCounter right after Google bought Urchin.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Real-Time Transliteration, WonderFrog, and search engines</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/real-time-transliteration-wonderfrog-and-search-engines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/real-time-transliteration-wonderfrog-and-search-engines/</guid><description>On June 2005 I left BeInSync to start investigating new ideas and directions, and founded 3D3R Software Studios.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wii Media Center should be right around the corner</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/wii-media-center-should-be-right-around-the-corner/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/wii-media-center-should-be-right-around-the-corner/</guid><description>Since the Wii is running the Opera browser, it&apos;s (in a sense) allowing us to run limited unsigned applications on the Wii.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>man would i like to write a wii emulator</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/man-would-i-like-to-write-a-wii-emulator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/man-would-i-like-to-write-a-wii-emulator/</guid><description>Why? First of all because the wii is a cool console, but second of all, because such an emulator could run on many different devices.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>COM, STA, apartment, reentrancy, re-entrancy</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/com-sta-apartment-reentrancy-re-entrancy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/com-sta-apartment-reentrancy-re-entrancy/</guid><description>are you getting cyclic function call graphs in your STA (or multiple STAs) ? so you&apos;ve probably heard of re-entrancy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>from flickr to zooomr</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/from-flickr-to-zooomr/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/from-flickr-to-zooomr/</guid><description>flickr recently told me i reached their 200 picture limit. it took me two years i think. now they won&apos;t let me upload anything without deleting old stuff.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BHO (IE Addin/extension) manifest visual styles xp</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/bho-ie-addinextension-manifest-visual-styles-xp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/bho-ie-addinextension-manifest-visual-styles-xp/</guid><description>Tried to cram as many relevant words in the title for this to come up in Google when people search for it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Some nice stuff from 2006</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/some-nice-stuff-from-2006/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/some-nice-stuff-from-2006/</guid><description>Taking an opportiunity to share my excitement about some stuff</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>libraries for fetching stuff off the net, WinInet, libcurl</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/libraries-for-fetching-stuff-off-the-net-wininet-libcurl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/libraries-for-fetching-stuff-off-the-net-wininet-libcurl/</guid><description>I used to use WinInet until now, had it wrapped around with some code that evolved over the years, t&apos;was ok.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nintendo DS Lite</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/nintendo-ds-lite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/nintendo-ds-lite/</guid><description>I got a DS-Lite during my last stay at the states. I also ordered an EZ-Flash IV Lite, which is a flash card for the DS Lite that allows you to put tons of</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My shot laptop just woke up</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/my-shot-laptop-just-woke-up/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/my-shot-laptop-just-woke-up/</guid><description>So a few good months ago my laptop got shot by a police robot. When I write &quot;shot&quot; I don&apos;t mean anything less than a live bullet puncturing my precious new IBM-T43p.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opera (Ope-רע)</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/opera-ope-%D7%A8%D7%A2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/opera-ope-%D7%A8%D7%A2/</guid><description>i&apos;ve been trying out Opera for a few days now, here are a few verbs i&apos;d use to describe it: funky, futuristic, hitek, cool, childish, immature, funny</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>1 / 0</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/1-0/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/1-0/</guid><description>(16:09:49) Michael Ring: So this $!@#! Officer there didn&apos;t understand what i just said. I think she got a &quot;division by zero&quot; operation in her head after my words</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fractal Music</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/fractal-music/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/fractal-music/</guid><description>My bro&apos;, elad, who&apos;s been into music for some time now, came up with the idea of harvesting sound out of Fractals.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In-Flight Wifi</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/in-flight-wifi/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/in-flight-wifi/</guid><description>El-Al from Tel-Aviv to New-York</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kinnernet 2006: Life in Fast-Forward</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/kinnernet-2006-life-in-fast-forward/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/kinnernet-2006-life-in-fast-forward/</guid><description>struct Kinnernet : public FooCamp {...}; Kinnernet (Kinnernet [sea of galilei] + Net) is where tons of multi-talented people meet once a year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Software writing: Being in control</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/software-writing-being-in-control/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/software-writing-being-in-control/</guid><description>Ever threw yourself into a new world of software-writing? Suppose you&apos;re a hard-core server programmer in C, imagine what it would be like to start a project for the Blackberry in Java.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bubbles: Minimizing the web</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/bubbles-minimizing-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/bubbles-minimizing-the-web/</guid><description>We just released Bubbles, a cool little (183k) piece of software that aims to turn Web-Applications into desktop applications.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>solution to unresolved external symbol _com_issue_error _bstr_t::_bstr_t</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/solution-to-unresolved-external-symbol-_com_issue_error-_bstr_t_bstr_t/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/solution-to-unresolved-external-symbol-_com_issue_error-_bstr_t_bstr_t/</guid><description>LNK2019: unresolved external symbol &quot;void __stdcall _com_issue_error(long)&quot; (?_com_issue_error@@YGXJ@Z) referenced in function &quot;public: __thiscall _bstr_t::_bstr_t</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sorta 1-way Video chat from your 6680 to a PC</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/sorta-1-way-video-chat-from-your-6680-to-a-pc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/sorta-1-way-video-chat-from-your-6680-to-a-pc/</guid><description>Like I said, you gotta love Nokia for putting Python on the Series-60 phones. My first mashup was to write an app that continuously pulls pictures from the phon</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>6680</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/6680/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/6680/</guid><description>I just got a new phone, the Nokia 6680. It runs on Symbian. Somebody compiled Python for it (that somebody being Nokia).</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pimp your car&apos;s trash-bin</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/pimp-your-cars-trash-bin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/pimp-your-cars-trash-bin/</guid><description>In-Car Trash-Bins/Cans have the tendency to flip over when you take turns. It&apos;s natural, they were created with this fantastic abilitiy that sets them apart from trash-cans all over the world.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>They shot me in the laptop!</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/they-shot-me-in-the-laptop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/they-shot-me-in-the-laptop/</guid><description>I decided to move to a laptop about a month ago, ditched my desktop completely. I&apos;ve been on the move a lot lately (just started 3D3R Software Studio), and what can I say, Mobility wins.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>C:\MSOCache, WTF ?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/cmsocache-wtf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/cmsocache-wtf/</guid><description>I like a clean and tidy C:\, I bet you do too. When you install Microsoft-Office it drops a directory called MSOCache on the root of your drive.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bastard of a mouse</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/bastard-of-a-mouse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/bastard-of-a-mouse/</guid><description>Bastard of a mouse OR how my mouse tried to commit suicide on a shiny day.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudoku Solver/Generator Source-Code</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/sudoku-solvergenerator-source-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/sudoku-solvergenerator-source-code/</guid><description>Here&apos;s some straight-to-the-point source-code for solving and generating Sudoku boards. It&apos;s targeted at embedded systems, so stuff will run fast and memory consumption is rather low.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hacking the EasyHotel TV (incomplete)</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/hacking-the-easyhotel-tv-incomplete/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/hacking-the-easyhotel-tv-incomplete/</guid><description>I found myself at the London EasyHotel. Don&apos;t book a room there if you&apos;re claustrophobic. The room has a nice Phillips FlatTV, but it has no visible buttons</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PyIE: Easy Screen-Scraping with Python and IE</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/pyie-easy-screen-scraping-with-python-and-ie/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/pyie-easy-screen-scraping-with-python-and-ie/</guid><description>I always like it when information I&apos;m interested in just flows over to me. The first thing I did about this was start sending myself daily reports about my investment-account.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local Process Information</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/local-process-information/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/local-process-information/</guid><description>A small program to cross your local process list with freely available data from the net to produce a valuable indication of what&apos;s good and what could be a problem.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>iPod Shuffle without iTunes</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/ipod-shuffle-without-itunes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/ipod-shuffle-without-itunes/</guid><description>The great guys at BeInSync got me an iPod-Shuffle yesterday. The moment I started skimming through the manual I figured this a&apos;int gonna be an easy match up.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Flippr! – Flickr Wallpapers</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/flippr-flickr-wallpapers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/flippr-flickr-wallpapers/</guid><description>Flippr! is a simple application that grabs pictures from Flickr! (The supercool photo-sharing website) and throws them on your desktop.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Desktop Slush – A cool desktop enhancement</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/desktop-slush-a-cool-desktop-enhancement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/desktop-slush-a-cool-desktop-enhancement/</guid><description>Ever find yourself glancing at your desktop looking for a shortcut for more than a few seconds?</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Damn biggest Fractal Print I&apos;ve ever seen</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/damn-biggest-fractal-print-ive-ever-seen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/damn-biggest-fractal-print-ive-ever-seen/</guid><description>I went on and generated, then printed a 2.25 x 1.5 meter (7.3 x 4.9 feet) Mandelbrot-Set poster. It&apos;s higher than Michael Jordan and almost as wide as the average sedan.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Mandelbrot Screen-Saver</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/a-mandelbrot-screen-saver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/a-mandelbrot-screen-saver/</guid><description>I always fancied screen-savers, especially those that didn&apos;t put up a slideshow of the Atlantic&apos;s Ocean&apos;s wonders over and over again.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>So what did you bring back from the states ?</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/so-what-did-you-bring-back-from-the-states/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/so-what-did-you-bring-back-from-the-states/</guid><description>I don&apos;t know about you, but I have a weakness for Mountain-Dew and Cherry-Coke.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSkypeWnd, code for interacting with Skype</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/cskypewnd-code-for-interacting-with-skype/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/cskypewnd-code-for-interacting-with-skype/</guid><description>I wrote a small WTL class called CSkypeWnd some time ago and didn&apos;t get a chance to use it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Always Picture</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/always-picture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/always-picture/</guid><description>Always picture is a small program that I wrote for my girlfriend to try and cheer her up during long working hours. It allows you to scatter bitmaps on your screen and continue working with these bitmaps on-top of you screen&apos;s contents.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Earth Simulation + GIS</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/earth-simulation-gis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/earth-simulation-gis/</guid><description>After the WTC attacks, CNN started using their Weather-System Simulation Program to show Afghanistan and Tomahawk missiles flying. This looked very nice and moved by the fact that I really didn&apos;t know too much geography...</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mini-Tracer &amp; Life-Saver</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/mini-tracer-life-saver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/mini-tracer-life-saver/</guid><description>Following are two screen-savers. One implements Conway&apos;s game of life, and the other does Recursive Sphere Ray-tracing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OpenGL Terrain Engine</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/opengl-terrain-engine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/opengl-terrain-engine/</guid><description>I started working on a terrain engine around October 2000. I was deeply moved by screenshots from black and white. My intention and main goal was to create something visually stunning.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PQTorus</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/pqtorus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/pqtorus/</guid><description>The PQ-Torus, or PQ-Torus Knot, is a parameterized version of the well-known Torus (A donut-like geometrical shape). P and Q are two parameters we use to modify the torus&apos;s shape.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Computer Graphics Experiments</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/exper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/exper/</guid><description>A collection of computer graphics experiments including an OpenGL terrain engine, PQTorus, ray-tracer, earth simulation with GIS, and more.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IMR demos</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/imr-demos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/imr-demos/</guid><description>A demo is a program that displays a sound, music, and light show, usually in 3D. Demos are very fun to watch, because they seemingly do things that aren&apos;t possible on the machine they were programmed on.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IMR-Bombers</title><link>https://www.ohad.com/blog/pilot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ohad.com/blog/pilot/</guid><description>IMR-Bombers is a Palm version of the classic Bomberman &amp; DynaBlaster games, featuring original 2D graphics, AI opponents, and a league system.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>