Ohad Eder-Pressman

Voidware: This App Doesn't Exist

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.

Terrain – iPad app

I've re-written my 10 year old Terrain-Engine as an iPad app. It uses OpenGL Shaders and was lots of fun to write.

Google-Voice vs. Skype

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.

HTML5 Text Path demo

I'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.

HTML5 Text Demo

An interactive HTML5 demo using SVG and Raphael to render and layout text along a path, with controls for font size and text offset.

Countries, Approximate Lat-Lon and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

We'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.

What does Google Voice on your Desktop mean?

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.

7 things the iPad will change

There'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

Explaining US car to Isralies

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.

twitpic and yfrog thumbnails

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.

nice San-Francisco quote

"San Francisco is a city of misfits. And maybe thats why it's so easy to fit in here. If it feels weird, we loved having you. If it feels right, welcome home."

Download Kindle books

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

Visual comments in code

an idea i had a few years ago, bumped into it while skimming through my documents and figured its better online than offline.

car details

we were looking to buy a car and rather than dumping the results in the recycle-bin here they are for the web-crawlers:

Playing with Yahoo Pipes

So I was sitting this Sunday afternoon, getting pissed that there's no easy way to monitor replies on Twitter. I talk with people there and there's no

IM protocols, do they support dynamic embedded images?

here's a scenario i'd like to have: i'm chatting with someone on IM, i want to show him something i'm seeing on my screen, i hit ctrl+apple+shift+whatever...

Multi-Core Software

It'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

Where are the goddamn iPhone SDK Rules

This one's been burning through 5 seconds of my brain's CPU a day. I keep thinking of what they are going to allow us to develop and what they won't.

Youtube Bucket testing?

mobile applications soon to come

so the upcoming wealth of iPhone applications is going to be amazing, i have no doubt whatsoever.

monetizing international users

that's it i'm starting to post musings on my blog, as in i just lowered the barrier of entry for my thoughts into this blog.

is it time for a new architecture for mobile web-widget-thingies?

The new Google search for iPhone is AJAX'ish as it gets, well, almost. You still need to load up the google page.

notes from a coder assembling a python web framework

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

1-Click TinyUrl + Twitter

so me friends @ashafrir and @jeffpulver got me onto twitter a few weeks ago. it's not hard to notice that everyone and his sister are using tinyurl

NetFlix are tracking interesting things on their site

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.

GOOG, Maps-Mobile, Locate-Me and revenue streams

i will not capitalize my sentences, though i'm still considering capitalizing the i's. i was writing a reply to my friend rani harpaz and figured its worth a post.

fake it till you make it

windows-mobile guys want iphones

kindle haiku

this will be my first analytical haiku, i hope its better than my writeups.

chat with gil-ad on web programming in israel, or lack thereof

israel is weird in that sense, it's funny because it shows a clear lack of understanding of the market. the way i look at it, web is just another platform.

seasonal social apps

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

steps toward scalability

finally, facebook went ahead and took the step towards letting low-scale people/companies write scalable applications.

facebook friend status on my desktop

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

craigslist minor changes

just noticed two changes in craiglists.com, one for 'prettiness' and one for 'cashiness'.

Facebook, value added services

i think one of the next things Facebook could do is offer services to companies who have lots of users already in Facebook.

listplow

i recently understood that i want to stop sending links to friends by email and wanted them to be able to consume my 'stuff' in a much more convenient manner.

The big boys aren't afraid to use Flash

Flash has been used for many years, mainly in online advertising, then in online games and most recently in online video sites.

OMG, LinkedIn has clusters

the moment has come, i'm really impressed. someone wanted to connect to me in linkedin. i went in, clicked OK, and then i get a screen saying this:

dog contemplating the universe

the guy behind me on the plane had a dog, which took his chance at seeing the world from a new angle.

Thank you for saving Urchin

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.

Real-Time Transliteration, WonderFrog, and search engines

On June 2005 I left BeInSync to start investigating new ideas and directions, and founded 3D3R Software Studios.

Wii Media Center should be right around the corner

Since the Wii is running the Opera browser, it's (in a sense) allowing us to run limited unsigned applications on the Wii.

man would i like to write a wii emulator

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.

COM, STA, apartment, reentrancy, re-entrancy

are you getting cyclic function call graphs in your STA (or multiple STAs) ? so you've probably heard of re-entrancy.

from flickr to zooomr

flickr recently told me i reached their 200 picture limit. it took me two years i think. now they won't let me upload anything without deleting old stuff.

BHO (IE Addin/extension) manifest visual styles xp

Tried to cram as many relevant words in the title for this to come up in Google when people search for it.

Some nice stuff from 2006

Taking an opportiunity to share my excitement about some stuff

libraries for fetching stuff off the net, WinInet, libcurl

I used to use WinInet until now, had it wrapped around with some code that evolved over the years, t'was ok.

Nintendo DS Lite

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

My shot laptop just woke up

So a few good months ago my laptop got shot by a police robot. When I write "shot" I don't mean anything less than a live bullet puncturing my precious new IBM-T43p.

Opera (Ope-רע)

i've been trying out Opera for a few days now, here are a few verbs i'd use to describe it: funky, futuristic, hitek, cool, childish, immature, funny