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Windows/Mac/Linux: Whether you’re a die-hard astronomy buff or someone who’d just like an idea of what constellations are where, Stellarium is a fantastic tool for viewing the night sky from the comfort of your home. Three years ago we shared Stellarium with you . Since then, the capabilities of the program have grown

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TuneWiki, one of our favorite mobile apps , is finally in the App Store in a non-gimped way with full access to your iTunes library (if you close it, it keeps playing through iPod even, like a fake background app). You get subtitled lyrics (with translations), music maps showing where people are listening to what, internet radio, video search and you can “blip” what you’re listening to Twitter, Facebook or wherever kids hang out these days

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The Finish: The Pegasus Open 50 sailboat just set the Transpac record of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds for a double handed monohull ship. Previous Record: 10 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes.

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July 11, 9:20 PM PST Lost all ways to recharge batteries, down to emergency battery. Just like an airplane

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The wind is picking up, and at the same time, the boat has to Jibe to port to adjust its path towards Hawaii. Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone , and decodes human motion . He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz .

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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. July 9, 5:30 PM PST Today we are living within the realm of Squalls. Squalls in the the Northeast sub-tropical Pacific are different.

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A short break in the shakey cam tour of the boat’s tech; here’s a clip of the Pegasus Open 50 Sailboat going 16 knots and throwing up the spinnaker (a large, kite like front sail) outside of Santa Cruz, CA, on a pre race trial run.

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This year’s Marin County fair in northern California took its environmental theme seriously. A huge photovoltaic setup provided about 40% of the fair’s energy with clean solar power—and a solar-powered county fair makes perfect sense.

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July 8, 3:30 PM PST Pegasus has been chewing up the miles and we are very lucky for that. Our last two days were 305 and 295 nautical miles respectfully. We like our heading with a lot of West and a bit of South in it, averaging about 255 true

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What’s this sailing race about ? The Transpac isn’t the biggest sailboat race, but it’s the longest of the two oldest

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