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  Meet Svbtle, the beautiful blogging platform you're not invited to, and Obtvse, its open-source clone

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 23, 2012 03:12 pm + 87 comments

  A couple of months ago well-known writer and UX designer Dustin Curtis, tired of the "uninspiring Continue reading…

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  Flickr's new 'justified' view spreads to Favorites page

  By Andrew Webster on March 23, 2012 09:56 am + 3 comments

  Last month Flickr introduced a slick new "justified" viewing option for browsing photos from your Continue reading…

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  For Samsung Galaxy designer Lee Min-hyuk, Apple's allegations are personal

  By Sean Hollister on March 23, 2012 02:16 am + 580 comments

  Samsung and Apple are engaged in an all-out patent war over the likes of the Galaxy Tab. Now, R Continue reading…

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  'Scrabble Typography Limited Edition': the fonts of all knowledge

  By Sam Byford on March 22, 2012 06:31 am + 14 comments

  Who doesn't have a board game and typography enthusiast in their life? For them, here's the Scrabble Continue reading…

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  Stamen Design tiles put a beautiful skin over OpenStreetMap data

  By Sam Byford on March 22, 2012 03:19 am + 8 comments

  There's been talk of Apple ditching Google Maps in favor of some rather unattractive proprietary Continue reading…

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  Thunderbird 11 update available now, introduces tabs above the menu bar

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 18, 2012 04:38 pm + 23 comments

  Like Firefox, Mozilla's popular email client Thunderbird is part of a new rapid update cycle and has Continue reading…

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  Chumby co-founder designs open-source Geiger counter

  By Bryan Bishop on March 17, 2012 11:06 am + 1 comments

  When Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, Chumby co-founder and author of Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Continue reading…

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  Adium 1.5 update adds built-in notifications, new icons, and a better transcript viewer

  By Thomas Houston on March 16, 2012 01:14 pm + 10 comments

  Mac chat client standby Adium today got its first major update in a year and a half with the release Continue reading…

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  Nokia's Marko Ahtisaari spending a third of his time designing upcoming tablet

  By Vlad Savov on March 15, 2012 04:34 am + 66 comments

  Nokia hasn't made any attempts to disguise the fact that it's working on a tablet device, but now Continue reading…

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  Pinterest to unveil redesigned profile pages 'very soon', iPad app in the works

  By Chris Welch on March 14, 2012 06:43 pm + 5 comments

  Pinterest's avid userbase will soon — perhaps as early as this week — be greeted by a redesigned Continue reading…