December 2010
3 posts
Boardwalk Vending Rules to be Enforced →
Ever tried to get a “vending” spot on Ocean Front Walk during a summer weekend? From what we hear, it is nearly impossible. Although the spots are supposed to be free and available to all on a…
Dec 17th
Visualizing Friendships →
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. When the data is the social graph of 500…
Dec 14th
Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup →
Hacking is a central part of Facebook’s culture. Whether we’re building the next big product at one of our Hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we’re always hacking to find a…
Dec 10th
August 2010
3 posts
$300 Million Dollar Mega Yacht off of Venice Beach →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Wow! Want to see what the 300 million dollar, 390 foot Philippe Starck designed mega yacht that belongs to Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko looks like? The “A”…
Aug 31st
SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck →
Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best…
Aug 26th
“Give Me 3″ Campaign Unveiled Today →
In an effort to remind motorists that bicycles are legally equal moving vehicles on the streets, the LADOT Bicycle Safety Awareness Campaign rolled out “Give me 3” posters today, with Mayor…
Aug 25th
October 2009
6 posts
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…
Oct 21st
Share your Mouse & Keyboard across Multiple... →
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 20th
Make your MacBook Pro Keyboard Lights Dance to... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Cool! 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 16th
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 12th
DA Says ALL Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries Face... →
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. From…
Oct 9th
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…
Oct 8th
September 2009
6 posts
Songkick Integrates Twitter To Make Gig Reviews... →
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…
Sep 25th
Steve Jobs at his home office in 1982 →
“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 25th
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 23rd
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 16th
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Sep 10th
August 2009
2 posts
Customize your Mac Desktop with 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 13th
Bike Commuting Shifts Into Higher Gear →
Shared by Tomas Becklin About time! :) 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…
Aug 11th
July 2009
1 post
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…
Jul 21st
June 2009
3 posts
Pure Digital: Thanks For The $1.3 Million Check!... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Now that is what I call a CHECK! So here I am this morning opening a pile of mail - schwag from companies, bills, checks for Heather, payroll stuff, the usual. I rip…
Jun 10th
House Music and Beyond - 4 →
Shared by Tomas Becklin My latest mix! Slowed it down a little compared to my last mix. Inspired by some great pool side sets I’ve experienced this year. Email me[at]djdomas[dot]com for a…
Jun 9th
Introducing Page Speed →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Check it! At Google, we focus constantly on speed; we believe that making our websites load and display faster improves the user’s experience and helps them become more…
Jun 5th
May 2009
3 posts
Did your bike get stolen? LAPD has made arrests →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Got your bike stolen? Read this! Detective Serna just let me know that the Pacific Division has made some arrests this afternoon and located several bicycles that they…
May 29th
Jell-O Shots for Grown-Ups →
Shared by Tomas Becklin This post alone makes this feed worth subscribing too! Worth trying: Because grown-up upgrades on college classics always make for good long weekends (witness:…
May 22nd
Rest in Peace, RSS →
Shared by Tomas Becklin This is funny… I was just making the same observation my self the other day. It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it…
May 6th
March 2009
5 posts
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 - Wmc Pool Party featuring... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin If in Miami during WMC you don’t wanna miss this! :) Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm - Venue: Hotel Marseilles, 1741 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 USA - Lineup: Domas,…
Mar 20th
MySpace’s Experimental New ‘Events’ Product... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Woohoo! MySpace’s Events page hasn’t really seen a major upgrade for years - the site looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005, and now lags behind Evite and…
Mar 14th
SoundCloud iPhone API Live in Berlin →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Finally, been waiting for this one! Sound Cloud rocks! Tomorrow Thursday our two iPhone heroes Gernot and Ullrich will show off the SoundCloud Cocoa API wrapper at
Mar 11th
Usher to Chris Brown →
this should be fun more brown shiznit
Mar 4th
Marley & Me German-Style; Dog Still Dies In The... →
Really, i can’t believe it is true???
Mar 2nd
February 2009
3 posts
Financial Crisis Explained →
Shared by Tomas Becklin I think I get it now… This is just a perfect way to understand a bit of why the world in fucked The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on …
Feb 27th
Install Windows 7 Beta in Mac OS X →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Maybe I’ll give it another shot now! :) Is Windows 7 really the Mac OS X slaying OS that so many claim it to be? Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread? There is…
Feb 9th
Friendfeed's User and Usability Problem →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Never got Friendfeed, and I guess I’m not the only one… I’ve been using Friendfeed for a good bit of time now and would consider myself a semi-active user. For the…
Feb 9th
January 2009
1 post
Adobe Stratus - Peer-2-Peer connection service for... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin WOW! Today Adobe launched a new Peer connection service called Adobe Stratus into beta. The service allows 2+ Flash Player 10 clients (or AIR 1.5 clients or mixed)…
Jan 14th
December 2008
5 posts
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin This is amazing! A very sad story: What started for me as an amusing collection of photos — who takes photos every day for eighteen years? — ended with a shock. Who…
Dec 23rd
New Feature: Upload and share multiple tracks in... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin These guys rock! Keep those sweet features coming! I’m really glad to tell you that after having worked hard on our two top feature requests (uploading multiple tracks…
Dec 22nd
Bring Steve Jobs Back for MacWorld 2009 Keynote... →
Join the facebook group to petition to bring Steve Jobs back for his LAST MacWorld 2008 Keynote.
Dec 19th
The Cloud Player →
Shared by Tomas Becklin have yet tried it, but these guys over at soundcloud.com keep on releasing cool stuff! It started as a one-day-hack for Eric needing a playlist feature for a party….
Dec 9th
IIS 7.0 Url Rewriter gotchas when importing... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Way to step it up IIS! One of the best things to happen to IIS 7.0 recently is the release of Url Rewriter , the IIS 7.0 url rewriting equivalent to Apache’s mod_rewrite….
Dec 9th
November 2008
2 posts
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours →
krewemaynard writes “Google has announced that they were able to sort one petabyte of data in 6 hours and 2 minutes across 4,000 computers. According to the Google Blog, ‘… to put this amount in…
Nov 25th
Nov 11th
October 2008
9 posts
Sultan - Protection (Tocadisco Remix) →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Luv this track! Check it! This track is super cinematic… I can only really imagine dropping it as an opener for an enormous crowd of heads, so in terms of actual times…
Oct 31st
Upcoming’s disastrous switch from personal-social... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin It’s all about me and my friends… anyone following social media should know that by now… Upcoming = fail Till a few months ago, Upcoming was one of the sites I…
Oct 22nd
Intel, sign me up →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Apple has already shown that control over hardware and software wins… i think Intel is onto something here. Look, I get overly exceited about stuff - sometimes that’s…
Oct 22nd
New photo reveals MacBook Pro, new display also... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Things that make u go hmmmm… :) A new photo showing a fully assembled next-generation 15-inch MacBook Pro with a black display bezel has surfaced, which AppleInsider can…
Oct 14th
Android Phone, the G1, to Ship Mid-October →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Jesus… is this the best they could come up with… A little birdy just dropped by CrunchGear HQ, bringing tidings of HTC Dream release dates in his little bird-sized…
Oct 12th
Saturday Mixtape →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Great Techno mix! Hey y’all! Bringing you a real quality piece, a mixtape I’ve been tweaking on for almost two weeks now. It’s bit more on the techy side, and since…
Oct 12th
During Tough Times, The Echo Chamber Can Be Your... →
Shared by Tomas Becklin Well written article over at Tech Crunch for once! We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices…
Oct 11th