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This allows you to use the following video streaming services outside of the US from your Mac without having to use a proxy or VPN, so no big bandwidth issues:

  • Hulu / HuluPlus
  • CBS
  • ABC
  • MTV
  • theWB
  • CW TV
  • Crackle
  • NBC
@pdokas
pdokas / svn-color.py
Created March 28, 2012 18:37 — forked from rharmes/svn-color.py
Colorize SVN
#
# 1) Alias this: alias svn=/Users/foo/dev/svn-color.py
# 2) Paste the script below into the above file
# 3) chmod 777 <the file>
# 4) Delete this quote block so the env line is line 1
#
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
@tvandervossen
tvandervossen / gist:1231476
Created September 21, 2011 07:33
Mobile Safari viewport sizes on iOS 4.3 and 5
iPad
1024 × 690 In landscape on iOS 4.3
1024 × 672 In landscape on iOS 5
768 × 946 In portrait on iOS 4.3
768 × 928 In portrait on iOS 5
1024 × 660 Always showing bookmarks bar in landscape on iOS 4.3
1024 × 644 Always showing bookmarks bar in landscape on iOS 5
768 × 916 Always showing bookmarks bar in portrait on iOS 4.3
@tmcw
tmcw / disconnect.rb
Created July 22, 2011 04:06
bulk-export run data from Garmin Connect
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
## disconnect
# ./disconnect.rb -u yourusername
#
# This is a command-line utility for the bulk-downloading of run data from
# the connect.garmin.com web application, which has lackluster export
# capabilities.
#
@xaviershay
xaviershay / ruby_require_speed.patch
Created May 1, 2011 01:00
This drastically speeds up require time on ruby 1.9 (17s down to 10s in our production rails app) , at the expense of disabling some edge case handling around autoloading. YMMV but it works for our rails app.
From 2fb8432982b7e8ffc4c05f912f47cd9ca7261427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Shay <xavier@rhnh.net>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 10:25:18 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Disable some edge cases in requiring to speed it up.
---
load.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/load.c b/load.c