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Dan Giulvezan

During the day I'm a creative geek in Silicon Valley, by night I'm a mobile app developer and co-founder of Guerilla Pixels.

Ahhhh beer. My love affair with beer started a couple years go. I was in BevMo and it hit me that while I knew a bit about wine, I knew nothing about beer. Watching Beer Wars and drinking my first craft beer opened my eyes to a world I wanted to find out more about.

I love enjoying a good craft beer, maybe I could actually brew a decent one? That's what this blog is for. I'm trying to brew, follow along here.

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Food app

So I've been tricked into making an app for food holidays.  ;)  Just kidding, nice little app that shouldn't take much time to put together.

Here's a list of possible names for a food holiday's iPhone app (which might also find it's way to Android).  What do you think, have a favorite?  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dgiul

Food Holidays
iFoodHolidays
iHeartFood
iCelebrAte
iCelebrAteIt
EpiHolidays
GastroDays
EatEvents
Holiday on a Plate
HolidayMenu
EatMyLittleHolidays
EatHolidays
iEatHolidays
iFeast
Feastivus
Dates for Foodies

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Beer list from vacation

Well, vacation is pretty much over. Sitting at the airport waiting to board a flight back home.

Had an idea when the vacation started: each time I order a beer, get a different one and try and expand my palate.

Seeing the list all together surprises me a bit too. Good times. :)

Amstel LightBlack Butte Porter
Bud Light Lime
Chimay Blue
Chimay Red
Corona
Fat Tire
Heinekin
Newcastle Ale
Primo Island Lager
Pyramid Hefeweizen
Sapporo
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Stella Artois

The biggest surprise on the list? Chimay Red. I'd never heard if it before, but I can tell it's going to be one I'll be enjoying with some regularity. What a fantastic beer!

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Favorite Mac apps

A good friend just got his first Mac so I thought I put together a list of some of my favorite Mac apps to help get him started.  The list started getting so big I decided to share it with every else too, so here you go - my favorite Mac apps:

AppCleaner - Uninstall apps from Mac OS X
http://freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/

AppFresh - Help keep your apps and widgest up to date
http://metaquark.de/appfresh/

Coda - Web development
http://www.panic.com/coda/

Comic LIfe - Turn photos into comics
http://plasq.com/comiclife/

Cornerstone - Great subversion client
http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/index.php

Corporate Ipsum (Dashboard widget) - Generate corporate jargon or classic Lorem Ipsum text
http://www.doubleforte.net/widgets/corporate/

CSSEdit - Great CSS editor and inspector
http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/

EasyFind - Good seach tool for looking for file and folders, also does a nice job of searching within files for text
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html

Handbrake - Rip DVD's (need to install VLC also if you want a DVD decrypter)
http://handbrake.fr/

Integrity - Broken link checker for websites
http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/

iToner - Add your MP3's as ringtones on your iPhone without having to buy the song again in iTunes
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/

JellyfiSSH - SSH bookmark manager
http://www.grepsoft.net/jellyfissh.html

NewsFire - RSS reader
http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Notify - Nice Gmail notifier
http://vibealicious.com/apps/notify/

On The Job - Time tracking and invoicing
http://stuntsoftware.com/OnTheJob/

OnyX - System maintenance utility
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

PhoneView - Nice tool for playing and exporting songs, backing up SMS messages, saving voice memos, etc.
http://ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

Picturesque - Easily add reflections, shadows, etc. to photos
http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque/

Pixelmator - Great Photoshop alternative
http://www.pixelmator.com/

Quicksilver - App launcher (it can do more but that's how I use it)
http://www.blacktree.com/

RPG (Dashboard widget) - Generate random passwords
http://www.autistici.org/rpg/widget.html

ScreenFlow - Create demos and screencasts from your Mac
http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm

Sequel Pro - MySQL database manager
http://www.sequelpro.com/

Skitch - Easy way to share screenshots (it's worth watching the intro video to see how it works)
http://plasq.com/skitch

Transmit - FTP client
http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Tweetie - Twitter client for Mac (I use the free, ad-supported version)
http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/

UnRarX - If someone sends you a RAR file (similar to a ZIP file) use this to unarchive it
http://www.unrarx.com/

VMware Fusion - Virtualization software, lets you easily install and run Windows on your Mac
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

VLC - Video player, will play pretty much everything
http://www.videolan.org/

Have some favorites not on the list?  I'd love to hear about them, just put them into a comment below.

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