A Belgian web developer named Mathias Bynens has shared an impressive collection of Unix commands to help you customize your Mac as you see fit. Unix isn’t especially easy to learn, but it’s all your Mac knows. So when you “speak” to your computer in its native language, it listens. To make use of...
Image: Robert Johnson Image: Google Maps Doug Hardman wakes up every morning with a song in his head—a vague memory of his days on stage. Inside his tepee in the woods outside Lakewood, NJ, at the homeless Tent City, the roosters wake early and the mornings are already cooler. A musician who lost his...
If you’re a shutterbug, you’re going to love the fact that there’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to just one tiny part of the photographic experience – the sound of the shutter. Shutterlog encourages users to submit videos of the exact moment when they’re clicking the shutter on their cameras. Putting together an awesome...
Close your eyes, and cast your mind back to the first dotcom boom in the late 90s/early 00s. What’s your overriding memory of that whole crazy period? Or if you’re too young to really remember, what do you immediately think of when you hear dotcom bubble or dotcom boom mentioned in relation to Silicon...
Editor’s Note: Jacob is a Venture Associate with Shasta Ventures. Prior to joining Shasta, Jacob worked at Microsoft’s BizSpark program and was the “business guy” at VentureBeat. Follow @jacob on Twitter here. It was an absolutely perfect day in Austin this past Wednesday, a temperate and breezy 89 degrees. The kind of day that...