Archive for the ‘General’ Category

iPod vs. Zune

The new and “amazing” Microsoft multimedia player, the Zune, was released to the stores in the USA, and besides the fact that they’re ugly and big, there’s 10 more reasons why to stay away from them:
10 iPod vs. Zune Myths at roughlydrafted.com

  • November 15, 2006
  • | Category: General, Mac
  • | Comments: 2

An Idea for a WP plugin

This is weird, but here it goes: I’ve noticed that every time a blogger doesn’t have anything to post, or is too busy to post, they leave this everything-but-nothing/to-busy-to-post message. A wordpress plugin that would kick in and do the job if the blog was not updated in a a few days, with one of [...]


Blogging from the air.

Gues what, I’m on a Lufthansa flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt, and they have broadband WiFi access in the plane! I even got a free 30 minute access card. This might be one of the first blog posts posted from the air.
Edit: I’m now listening to Pandora online radio, 20,000 feet in [...]

  • July 12, 2006
  • | Category: General
  • | Comments: 9

Pandora.com

I just discovered this yesterday, It’s amazing!
Based on the music genome project, which is designed to catalog all music and find related music, is a free personal internet radio service. Just start a new station by adding one artist or song, and pandora will let you listen online to related music. With the nice and [...]


Open Source Definition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition
Under the Open Source Definition, licenses must meet ten conditions in order to be considered open source licenses

Free Redistribution: the software can be freely given away or sold.
Source Code: the source code must either be included or freely obtainable.
Derived Works: redistribution of modifications must be allowed.
Integrity of The Author’s Source Code: licenses may require that [...]

  • May 26, 2006
  • | Category: General
  • | Comments: 0

Some Updates

Here are some updates on what’s been going on here recently:

I added two new beautiful WordPress themes to the WordPress themes page both ported recently and posted elsewhere, now available here as well.
I launched a business site for my theme porting (and coding) business, it’s @ www.mywebsight.ws
I was interviewed by Aaron of Webmaster404 about [...]

  • May 10, 2006
  • | Category: General
  • | Comments: 0

New Host

I’ve now successfully moved this site to HostGator, after my current hosting arrangement was about to expire, and I needed a solution that supported multiple domains (Hang on, some cool sites coming soon )
I get 5GB of space, 75GB of transfer (compare with 800MB and 25GB at Electric Kitten) and UNLIMITED: Domains, Sub-domains, FTP [...]

  • May 1, 2006
  • | Category: General
  • | Comments: 1

Some Site Statistics

Some time ago, I signed up to Google Analytics, the other night I checked my site’s statistics, and here is what I found:
General Statistics
Browsers
Thats always the most interesting thing, which browsers do your visitors use? here are the stats for this site: So, the majority of this site’s visitors (50.33%) have chosen FireFox, next is [...]


Kill Internet Explorer

As a web developer, I keep on getting get frustrated with Internet Explorer’s lack of standards compliance, so I created this page, explaining why using IE is a bad Idea. So if you are one of those 30.7% of this sites visitors who use IE, click the link and find out why you should drop [...]


My Car, R.I.P.

OK, Usually I don’t post about my personal life here, I just think It doesn’t really interest anyone, but this is different. so… 2 days ago I lent my car, a 1988 Subaru DL, to a friend. he got into an accident and totaled it. the insurance policy I had doesn’t cover the damage, and [...]

  • March 30, 2006
  • | Category: General
  • | Comments: 5

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