The Semester is dead. Long live the Semester!

Semester 1A and its exams ended, and the new semester is beginning on Sunday.

This means I've got some spare time to do stuff beside sitting in my room and looking at some papers, so here are some updates on the upcoming projects I'm planning to work on:

iWC - I've decided to discontinue the project, because I've found out this application which allows you to control Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes using an iPhone web application. It seems that programming a web application specifically for the iPhone can replace most native applications, and you should give it a try.

However, I'm planning to release the Python Winamp module of iWC, which enables communication with Winamp 5+. I still need to document and refactor it a bit, so I hope I'll be able to release it this upcoming week.

iPhone Synchronization - I'm planning to enhance the currently available iTunes-iPhone synchronization. I know, there are some products which allow better synchronizing, but they cost money, and they are not modular and open-source.

Currently, the main features I'm planning are Facebook synchronization (fetch friends pictures, phone numbers, addresses, websites and so on) and better Outlook integration (such as notes and to-do synchronization). If you have any other ideas, please send me an email or leave a comment.

Smart-Home - I wonder if I shall start working on an embedded project to connect some switches / electronic devices to the wireless network at our apartment in Jerusalem. If you know a cheap wifi microcontroller, please leave a message.

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my new blog!

Because I would like to be as laconic as possible (=lazy), I will answer a few questions in a Q&A format:

Q: Why are you opening a blog?
A: Two main reasons:
1. sometime I want to express myself in writing, and because I don't write poems to the drawer (well, mostly because I don't have any of them both) and I need to publish my thoughts somewhere, I think a blog is the exact tool for that.
2. I don't like spam groups - so posting funny / interesting / informative things here will do the trick, without blowing up a lot of mailboxes.

Q: What this blog will be about?
A: This blog will be about everything that's on my mind - whether it's geek stuff, music, art, actuality, social life or whatsoever.

Q: Why are you writing in english, you sinner?
A: I've wondered whether to write in english or hebrew, with good reasons for both, but thinking about writing technical posts in hebrew got me sick and made me choose the former.

Q: How does your family name became a verb?
A: It's a long story - just accept it as-is :)