http://ohad.visual-i.com i'll try to share useful stuff with you Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:48:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. so here's a translation of the terms, what's important and what's not: Bodily Injury & Property Damange Liability - דפקתי איזה מניאק, ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2009/09/explaining-us-car-to-isralies/ my facebook newsfeed is full of twits with links to images hosted on twitpic and yfrog. both twitpic and yfrog provide a super simple way to get thumbnails from these links. so, until facebook or some facebook-app does this for me, i had to do it for myself. here's a simple ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2009/06/twitpic-and-yfrog-thumbnails/ "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." thanks David Ulevitch for this one http://ohad.visual-i.com/2009/06/nice-san-francisco-quote/ 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, it also has all the titles in the Kindle's AZW format. My friend Amit Shafrir said it would be cool if there were some script that let you quickly ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2009/03/download-kindle-books/ an idea i had a few years ago, bumped into it while skimming through my documents and figured its better online than offline. Visual Comments - Upload a Document to Scribd http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/10/visual-comments-in-code/ we were looking to buy a car and rather than dumping the results in the recycle-bin here they are for the web-crawlers: * trip calculations are based on a 102m trip to SJ and back with gallon price at $4.3 http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/08/car-details/ 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 serious built-in feature in Twitter that will notify me when people reply to me, which, other than direct messages, is exactly when I ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/08/playing-with-yahoo-pipes/ here's a scenario i'd like to have:i'm chatting with someone on IMi want to show him something i'm seeing on my screeni hit ctrl+apple+shift+whatever, get an overlay control to crop some part of my screenclick my mouse, boom that part gets cropped and sent to my chat partnermy chat partner ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/07/im-protocols-do-they-support-dynamic-embedded-images/ 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 - the poor man's SMP. It seems like future CPUs will be trying to maintain Moore's law using more cores rather than more ... http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/07/multi-core-software/ http://ohad.visual-i.com/2008/06/youtube-bucket-testing/