I have blogged before about how using the Skype4Py library makes it very easy to script Skype and add little features to it, in a portable way. I have written two such little scripts recently. Their code is short and simple, and while I only tested them under Linux they should also work under Windows […]

In the recent weeks, Skype launched High Quality Video on Windows: 640×480 (4 times more pixels) and 30 fps (double as standard Skype video). I got last week one of the camera that can support it and I tried it with my mother. Her feedback was excellent (others agree). It’s much nicer to use in […]

I’ve been using Python as my main scripting language for a while now. The Skype Linux tools I wrote a little while ago were already in Python. They used a custom wrapper for the API that Skype exposes for 3rd party applications. There is however a much better Python wrapper available now, Skype4Py, which […]

Since a couple of months, I have been using an iPhone. In one of the first posts of this blog, in mid 2004, I wondered why we didn’t have an iPod phone yet. It took a long time, but it was worth the wait. The iPhone is an amazing device.
There have been lots of critics […]

2007 is ending, time for a little personal update. No changes actually, still in Estonia, still at Skype. And still having a great time with our son.
Beginning of October, Henri started walking. That was pretty amazing to see him so happy to discover that he can walk alone. Since then, he has been using this […]