Skype for the iPhone was released in the App Store today. Unfortunately, it was crashing on startup - it showed the Skype blue logo and then crashed back to the home screen. A quick Google query led me to discover that I'm not alone - this affects many "jailbroken" iPhone users. UPDATE: To fix this on a jailbroken iPhone, update the package "Mobile Substrate" on Cydia to version 0.9.2803-1 (or higher). After the update Skype works great!

I love ReSharper. It has completely changed the way I think about code. When I have to use Visual Studio without ReSharper installed, I feel like I'm writing the code in Notepad. As my first actual post on this blog I'd like to present a few features of ReSharper 4.1 that help me code faster, better, (stronger) and with much higher accuracy. Here are a few things I don't do anymore: 1. Looking for files in Solution Explorer Gone are the days when I have to take my hands off the keyboard to use...

I just found out that it's possible to copy the text from any message box to clipboard by pressing Ctrl-C when the message box appears! Think of all the times you needed to search for an exact error message text, and needed to switch back and forth between the message and your browser window. For example: Pressing Ctrl-C will copy the following to the clipboard: [Window Title] notepd [Content] Windows cannot find 'notepd'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK] This also works in Windows XP.

Hello, my name is Igal, and I'm an addict. Well, not really, but I sure like gadgets. I bought an iPhone (1st generation) immediately after its price dropped from $600 to $400. I love it and I use it for almost everything. Except reading. I tried reading on the iPhone - it supports PDF attachments, for example, you could open a PDF file from an attached mail message, and the iPhone would display it perfectly. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to read on that tiny screen for a long time, and the backlit LCD...

JetBrains just announced that ReSharper 4.5 has reached Beta status, and now available to download. Here are some of my first impressions: The installation was a snap - it asked to remove the previous version (4.1), and installed the new version instead, while keeping the previous settings. There is a noticeable improvement in the Visual Studio 2008 responsiveness after startup, Start Page appears to be frozen much less than before. Memory usage has dramatically improved! devenv.exe is no longer the hungriest process on my system, Firefox has...

One of the main selling points of the Kindle is Whispernet - a free EVDO Internet (provided by Sprint), which allows downloading content on the Kindle, browsing the web, reading RSS feeds, and searching Wikipedia. This is all brilliantly illustrated in this xkcd comic: Unfortunately, Sprint's coverage of Israel is pretty bad :) There are two "registrations" of the Kindle. The first one is on the Amazon site. Since I purchased the device for myself, in my own account, the Kindle had automatically been assigned to me. This allows me to purchase Kindle content on...