Breathtaking time lapse video of the Milky Way and El Tedie

5 seconds into this gorgeous video and we were hooked. This beautiful time lapse featuringa sandstorm, the Milky Way, Grand Canary Island and El Tedie, Spain’s highest mountain was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011 by Norwegian filmmakerTerje Sorgjerd. It is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world’s best observatories. The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know, El Teide....

2 min · 268 words · Peter Allen

Breeze binds window locations to keyboard shortcuts on your Mac

One of the most annoying things about a Mac is the inability to easily resize and position windows, getting a bit too much when you have a number of them open at any one time. Adding a little bit of Windows 7 usability to your Mac,Breezeis a neat little window management at that resides in your menubar, waiting for you to create custom snapshots of any window used by your applications....

2 min · 302 words · Andrew Guzman

Brian Lam leaves Gizmodo, pursuing “next adventure”

Long-timeGizmodoeditorBrian Lamhas left the site, according to a self-publishedfarewell post: After five years at Gizmodo, I’m moving on to play around in the ocean a bit more and figure out what my next adventure is. Lam’s career has had its share of high and low points, most notably his involvement with fellow editor Jason Chen theiPhone 4 debacle. Lam had taken a somewhat-shady approach toward an agreement to return the iPhone 4 prototype to Apple, if only Apple would agree to state that it was real:...

2 min · 306 words · Marcus Hubbard

Brian Solis on the key to replicating Silicon Valley [Video Interview]

Brian Solis is one of Silicon Valley’s influentials, he has been in the valley for over a decade and has good perspective on the past, present and ideas for the future of an industry that’s growing fast. I probed him on why Silicon Valley produces the highest number of tech companies in the world, thoughts on how to replicate. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

1 min · 196 words · Heather Mcmahon

Bribespot lets people “check in” when they’ve been bribed

Bribespotis a web service, anAndroid appand soon an iPhone app that you can use to send in reports of bribes that were taken in your area. You can also check your location on the map to see what bribes were taken recently and why. Bribery may not be a huge problem in the US, but worldwide it’s almost an epidemic, with some local governments sanctioning bribes of law officers to the degree that no one pays official fines any more....

2 min · 409 words · Catherine Frazier
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