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Oct
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Hurl is now open!

Hurl is now open source!

Chris Wanstrath and I originally developed Hurl for the 2009 Rails Rumble where it won Most Complete. The idea was to create a simple web version of cURL, a…
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Share your Mouse & Keyboard across Multiple Mac’s with Teleport

teleport mac Teleport is undoubtedly one of the single most useful utilities available to anyone that owns more than one Mac. Using Teleport, you can share a single mouse and keyboard across multiple…
Oct
16th
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Make your MacBook Pro Keyboard Lights Dance to Music!
Shared by Tomas Becklin
Cool!

macbook keyboard lights

Have you ever wanted to make your MacBook or MacBook Pro’s keyboard lights dance to the music you are listening to? Has the thought never crossed your mind?…
Oct
12th
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ARGON 18 Stolen Bicycle

We can’t post up every stolen bicycle in Venice as bicycle theft is through the roof these days, but we can post the occasional rare one in hopes of getting it back for the owner. Stolen yesterday…
Oct
8th
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DA Says ALL Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries Face Prosecution

Things may be rapidly changing on the Venice Boardwalk now that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley has announced they will prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries.

Kush Venice Beach

From…
Oct
7th
Wed
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Google Street View in Venice Beach

Yo! Venice! facebook friend Hans noticed that Google Street View now covers Ocean Front Walk and a bunch more streets around Venice. Enjoy killing some time by clicking here.

Add Yo! Venice! to…
Sep
25th
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Songkick Integrates Twitter To Make Gig Reviews Realtime

Hot London-based live music startup Songkick launches a new feature today allowing users to share their experiences of gigs. Users can now connect their Songkick account to their Twitter account…
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Steve Jobs at his home office in 1982

steve jobs office

“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” – Steve Jobs

Amazing picture and quote from Diana…
Sep
22nd
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Update Chromium with a shell script
Shared by Tomas Becklin
Always looking out! :)

I have found myself using Chrome on OS X a lot lately. With the increase in complex javascript in webpages, Firefox just isn’t cutting it. I have…
Sep
15th
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Timelapse Burning Man Video

Shared by Tomas Becklin
Beautiful video!
Check out this amzing time-lapse video of Burning Man 2009 by Jason Mooney aka Timewrangler: ShareThis
Sep
9th
Wed
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Hedda, my niece.

Hedda, my niece.

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Testing the new Flickr iPhone app.

Testing the new Flickr iPhone app.

Aug
13th
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Customize your Mac Desktop with GeekTool

Mac GeekTool GeekTool is a fun system preference utility for Mac that allows you to really customize your desktop. You can dump log files, system status messages, graphs, CPU usage, and all sorts of things…
Aug
11th
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Bike Commuting Shifts Into Higher Gear
Shared by Tomas Becklin
About time! :)

bicycle 8-10-09
Why we like this: Cars have mufflers. Bikes don’t.
Source: Good

Gist: If you live in a city, you’ve probably noticed that more of your burgh’s…
Jul
20th
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Why I don’t worry about competiton
Shared by Tomas Becklin
Great post. Focus, focus and then some focus. Let the competition worry about you, not the other way around.

Often when talking to press or VC’s, they ask a million…