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JayCut Is a Great Web-Based Video Editor [Video Editing]

If you need to edit some video away from your home, free web-based video editor JayCut will likely get your project going, whether you need simple cutting and pasting or text, transitions, and impromptu audio recording. More
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Taskos Is a Voice-Powered Mobile To-Do List for Android [Downloads]

Android: If you prefer to use your Android as hands-free as possible, Taskos is a voice-driven to-do list manager that supports contexts, alarms, dialer integration and more. More
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iTunes Ping’s Latest Problem: Spam

iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network. As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices. Apple released iTunes 10 and iTunes Ping earlier this week and the rollout has been a little bit rocky.
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Determine Restaurant Wait Times Before You Leave the House [APPS]

If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The Onion ’s A.V. Club has come up with a solution for you: a crowdsourced iPhone app that lets you know about wait times at local eateries. According to The A.V. Club’s website , the idea was inspired by popular Chicago hot dog maker, Hot Doug.
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We All Scream for Ice Cream in This Week’s Open Thread [Open Thread]

Still hotter than you'd like this late in the summer? We're serving out scoops of your favorite productivity ice cream in this week's open thread. More
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Dushare Is a Peer-to-Peer One Click File Sharing Solution [File Sharing]

You want to transfer a file to a friend but IM transfer has failed, it's too big for email, or somebody is behind a firewall. Head over to Dushare where you can transfer peer-to-peer via browser, as fast as you can upload. More
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A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. You have created a Facebook Fan Page.
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Google Wave Lives On (in a Box) [Google Wave]

Google has announced that despite Wave's demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it. More
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Twitter for iPhone/iPad Getting Push Notifications Soon

We’ve just gotten an email from Twitter stating that staffers are testing push notifications amongst themselves and the company will be rolling this feature out to all users soon. Push notifications would enable users to get instant, real-time updates for certain types of tweets — probably DMs and @replies and perhaps other kinds of tweets, as well. A few lucky users accidentally got the new feature with the Twitter for iPad application which was recently released. “When we launched Twitter for iPad, there was a configuration error that caused us to offer push messages to a small set of users,” wrote a Twitter spokesperson
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New York’s Newest Law Aims to Protect Online Daters

It’s something you’d expect to hear from your mother, not your government, but New York’s newest laws are all about exercising common sense when looking for love online. Sounding like something between a schoolteacher and a public service announcement, the Internet safety act will require online dating websites to warn their users about the potential perils of web-based romance. The caveats seem like the kind of best practices any mindful Internet user would have internalized years ago. Things like not giving out your physical address and providing your own transportation on initial dates, for example, are no-brainers.
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