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Rod Begbie : Tribute to Famous People by Pomplamoose - The fabulous Pomplamoose have compiled their outstanding cover versions into a new album. Many examples of cover versions being better than the originals, particularly their gorgeous take on "Single Ladies". [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Best of Bootie 2009 - This year's mash-up-mega-mix. Amazing as ever! #
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Rod Begbie : Android Starter Kit - According to CNet, three of the top four must-have Android apps are: A file manager, a process killer, and an app uninstaller. Because, as everyone knows, the kids LOVE to kill them processes. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Annabel Scheme - Robin's novella is now available as a CC-licensed PDF file. I'm about halfway through reading my copy, and proud to have been part of the Kickstarter project that funded it. Perfect for copying onto your Kindle before you board a flight this festive seas #
Andy Baio : Robin Sloan's Annabel Scheme - brilliant novella about quantum computing and the digital occult
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Rod Begbie : 8-bit Christmas - Chiptunes Christmas album, raising cash for Child's Play. #
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Rod Begbie : MagicPrefs - I love my new Magic Mouse, but was missing my middle click. This app adds it back. Hooray! [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch - This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace! [via] #
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nelson : Background downloads - BITS: a Windows service for downloading stuff with unused bandwidth
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Rod Begbie : Waze - Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it's not ready for prime-time -- you're better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Ommwriter - Oh my, this is rather lovely. A distraction-removing full-screen text editor (similar to WriteRoom), with a lovely background and jangly music! [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Glims for Safari - Safari "plug-in" which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world! [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Canabalt - Rather ace Flashgame, now available for the iPhone. Interesting sidenote: Reviews in iTunes are rather overwhelmed by their stupid decision to include a review in the app description containing the word "faggotry". [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Tig: text-mode interface for git - Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : BootXChanger - Replace the Apple graphic on OS X boot. Being a traditionalist, I've got with an old school Happy Mac. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : ClickToFlash - OS X Safari users: Install this! Blocks Flash until you click on the object in Safari (and other WebKit-based applications). A way to mitigate the risk of the Flash exploit without completely nuking Flash Player from your machine. #
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Andy Baio : Pterodactyl Squad's 8-bit tribute to Weezer - the Tugboat, PDF Format, and OxygenStar tracks are all great [via]
Rod Begbie : Weezer - The 8-bit Album - Compilation of chiptunes covers of Weezer. Ace! [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Dinosaur Comic message style for Adium - /me steps on log cabin [via] #
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Rod Begbie : atebits - Tweetie for Mac - Tweetie has been my iPhone Twitter app of choice for some time. The new OS X version seems equally lovely. Not going to tear away folks with seven-column Tweetdeck setups, but it seems to be a good step-up from Twitterrific. #
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Rod Begbie : Mac Lounge - Alpha version of a new OS X Twitter client. Still a bit rough around the edges, but has a bit more oomph than Twitterrific (and isn't as complex and desktop-real-estate-consuming as TweetDeck), so I'm giving it a shot. [via] #
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joshua : F.lux - changes your screen warmth based on time of day - herf's new project
cobra libre : f.lux - Varies your display's brightness and color temperature by the time of day. [via] #
Rod Begbie : Flux - "F.lux makes your computer's lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day." [via] #
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deusx : Supervisor - "Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. It shares some of the same goals of programs like launchd, daemontools, and runit. Unlike some of these programs
Rod Begbie : Supervisor - Handy lightweight process-launcher-and-watcher. Features like "restart this process if it swallows too much resident memory" are going to be handy. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone - Things has completely changed my life. My moleskine has laid dormant for months, no longer the recipient of a gajillion TODO lists. And, as Shaun Blanc points out, the interface is a near total delight. Dragging a TODO into the project section to split [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Slacker Personal Radio - Slacker Radio on iPhone and iPod Touch - I prefer Slacker's personalized radio stations to Pandora, and their new iPhone app is top-notch. #
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Rod Begbie : Sen:te - GPGMail - The plugin for OS X's Mail app which makes cryptography easily manageable. #
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Rod Begbie : Best of Bootie 2008 CD - Awesomesauce! The new Best of Bootie mashup CD is ready for download. #
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