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If you need to convert AVI files to MOV (i.e. something authorable in Final Cut or iMovie), you can use MPEG Streamclip from Squared5. -- Rick Cogley

|| From the site: MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.

You can use MPEG Streamclip to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in a DVD authoring tool, and use them with many other applications or devices.

Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3, ...

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"Drag, Drop, Disco." Good alternative to Toast for disc burning.

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Adjix is an URL shortener that uses HTML redirects instead of 302's.

From the site: Short Links. Tiny Ads. Big Payoff.

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Nice collection of tools to backup your twitter. -- Rick Cogley | How To Backup Your Twitter Account - The issue of backing up data from your Twitter account is becoming more important as people spend considerable amounts of time and effort building a valuable reputation and network of contacts.

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Effective estimation method.

From the site - How does Planning Poker® work? ... The idea behind Planning Poker is simple. Individual stories are presented for estimation. After a period of discussion, each participant chooses from his own deck the numbered card that represents his estimate of how much work is involved in the story under discussion. All estimates are kept private until each participant has chosen a card. At that time, all estimates are revealed and discussion can begin again.

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An interesting web-based PM tool. I like the fact that they are flexible about file-storage size and are willing to create a plan that fits the user's needs. --Rick Cogley

From the site: "5pm™ is a next generation web based project management tool
Looking for a better way to stay organized?
5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more...
Start today and get more done by 5pm! "

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Interesting social network status updater service. Gotta be careful not to inundate people with your statuses (statii?). I am using it to update Linked.in and Plaxo statuses, and send work-related updates to my ping.fm special posting email address. -- Rick Cogley

From the site: "We post your messages wherever you want!

That's right, we support over 30 social networking sites and we're adding more regularly.

Between our straight forward posting methods and advanced custom triggers, we make it easy for you to post your messages exactly where you want them to go."

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Adobe AIR-based Twitter Client Twhirl is awesome. Cross platform.

From the twhirl website: "twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Some of twhirl’s features:

* runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
* connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
* notifications on new messages
* shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd)
* cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku
* post images to TwitPic
* search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan
* timeline filtering
* color schemes
* automatically check for new versions"

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DEVONthink is a powerful personal information organization tool with artificial intelligence built in. Archive and analyze various pieces of info with this tool. Version 2.0 coming soon, as of Dec 2008.

From their website: "Meet DEVONthink — designed to manage and keep in order all those disparate pieces of information so important to your work or studies. As you become more experienced with DEVONthink and its easy, intuitive interface you will quickly find more exciting ways of using your data."

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Very easy-to-use time and expense tracking system, in the ruby-on-rails style of 37Signals. Free version for a single user and two projects, reasonable prices for more users and projects. Excellent reporting.

From their site: "Harvest lets you and your staff track time, log expenses, and create invoices in one simple, integrated workflow. Set yourself or your team up on Harvest in just a few minutes, and instantly start tracking time and expenses. Use the Harvest graphical reports to see the distribution of your company's resources in a visual, intuitive way. Quickly create an invoice, and with just a single click, bill your client. You'll see your revenue come in faster with Harvest. Give Harvest a try and improve your business today. "

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Transmit 3 is a great FTP client for the Mac. Must-have if you make websites. From the Panic Site: "Column view. idisk. sidebar. ftp/ssl. search. zooming. tabs. Transmit 3 takes mac os x ftp to the next level. "

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I love this app. It makes such a pleasing zap sound when zapping an app, and it works well, too. You need this if you trial software a lot, and end up uninstalling. From the App Zapper site - "Introducing AppZapper. AppZapper is for people who want to confidently try new apps while knowing they can uninstall them easily. Drag one or more unwanted apps onto AppZapper and watch as it finds all the extra files and lets you delete them with a single click. A slick safety system remembers which apps you want to keep safe, and the log tracks all the files you've zapped. In one Zap you'll understand it. In two you'll fall in love. Within the five free Zaps, you'll know you need to add AppZapper to your arsenal. Go ahead — try five free zaps and see AppZapper, the Mac uninstaller for the rest of us, in action. "

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Feedburner allows you to optimize, enhance and publicize your RSS feeds. For example, if you have RSS feeds from a blog and from your Flickr photos, you can come them together by "burning" the blog feed, splicing in your Flickr photos, and then adding additional features and information to the feed to make it easier for people to use, and more interesting.

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Google Webmaster Tools. Register your sites here with your Google account and then enjoy some really good diagnostic tools for looking at how your site is indexed and any errors.

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Allows you to select files and upload them to Google Docs, but also gives a special email address for uploading via email. See limitations for file type and size as well. If you upload a doc to Google docs, you can export it in various formats including P

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This is an online .htaccess generator, in which you pick the parameters you want to set, and it makes the text you can copy and paste to your .htaccess.

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Blank Canvas makes a plugin for Firefox that works in Flock too - it lets you put HTML in your Gmail signatures. Excellent!

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