Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Life Mashup 2.0


A mix of vid, pic and mp3

Luzia

I saw Luiza warm up Fortis's show last Friday and liked them.

They are touring as well. Check them out.

Ehud Banai & Berry Sakharof Live at the Tamar Festival

Last night I took a day trip to the dead sea to see two of my favorite Israeli musicians performing on the same stage at the beautiful venue of Wadi Zohar, a natural amphitheater located in a creek right next to the dead sea. I've seen both musician perform many times in the past 15-20 years and last night was one of the top concerts of both. 

Img_0072

Here are a few videos I was able to capture throughout this amazing night, including the epic "Foreign Country", that last song in Berry's song, dedicated to Gilad Shalit who was released today from captivity after more than 5 years.

And finally, the entire playlist with a few other songs can be viewed here:

Use Onavo for iPhone to reduce your data plan cost

If your iPhone data plan is a Non-Unlimited one, then one of the very first apps you should install on your iPhone is Onavo.

It is a free utility (get it from http://www.onavo.com) that uses data compression technology to reduce the amount of data your iPhone sends and receives when it is not on wifi. When Onavo's saving is on, most of the apps running on your iPhone send their data compressed via Onavo's gateway and your data usage gets significantly reduced so the chances you will exceed your plan are slim. The app has a nice reporting module that shows total savings and breakdown by service/app. As you can see in the screenshot below, in my case - during the first week of Oct I saved 56% of all the data that was sent. This is huge.

One feature I would like to see added to the app is the ability to exclude certain apps from sending their data via Onavo's gateway. The reason is that certain streaming apps like online radio often get stuck in a connecting mode and never play the stream when Onavo is on, and only way to make them work is disable Onavo completely.

Other than that, Onavo is a great - a must have utility for your iPhone.

Photo

Thanks,
-jay

Sent from my iPhone

OS X Lion - The 3 features that worth your $30

1. Preview now lets you add a signature to any PDF
This is a HUGE feature. A truly disruptive one that is going to make you stop the bad habit of printing a document, signing it, scanning it to a PDF and then emailing it. 

Lion_os-add-signiture

2. Resize any window from anywhere
Yes, yes, just like in Windows. No more being limited by either going full size (clicking on the green + button at the upper left corner) or using the resizing control at the bottom right corner of a window. Every edge got a resizing control.

3. Mission Control
I was never a big fan of Spaces in OS X Leopard. The process of moving windows between spaces was not easy. Mission Control is changing things dramatically. It is super easy to view all desktops (3 fingers gestures up), navigate between desktops (3 fingers left-right gesture) and move app windows between desktops. My desktop is no longer a mess.

 
Mission_control_-_mac_os_lion

Ehud Banai - Live 2011

Ehud Banai, one of my favorite Israeli artists, has recently released a new fantastic album and went on a tour. As a matter of fact, he is not just an artist, but one that I have been following, and influenced, by for 25 years.

His debut album was the first vinyl record that I had purchased and ZMANCHA AVAR (your time is up) was one of the first songs and one of my favorite ones he has released.

Yesterday I saw him at the Zappa. Backed by fantastic group of musicians (his drummer Eran Porat was my teacher about 15 years ago) & performing a wide variety of his songs from a 25 years career. A highly recommend concert. Don't miss it.

​