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With Jason in Cannes and Thomas elsewhere in Europe, Daniel scouted the globe to find another co-host. He came across Zac, who was lost and looking to get home to Sydney. Daniel gave him a lift there on the fymo train of love.

By Steven Frank (via Merlin Mann)

Dan and Jase shift their gazes from the large ladies to the large crystal ball; what is next for Apple? And how will they achieve it? Plus, suggest a location for Dan and Jase to record flop ya mac out from!

Apple and Microsoft advertisements go head to head - with a few blows below the belt? Dan and Jase push the boundaries of the tech genre, with a few tips to spice up any couples or singles life; Bump up your love life!

What it does:
Toots your tweets from your desktop and receives tweets from those you follow. Displays ‘All Friends’, ‘Replies’, ‘Direct Messages’ and more, in parallel columns.

What makes us hard:
- Inbuilt URL shortening using many of the latest available services, including the new Digg short url service.
- Post updates to facebook.
- Filter tweets by Name, Text, Source and Time.
- View links to TwitPic’s from within TweetDeck.
- ‘Groups’ allows one to create a stream of tweets from specific users (so you can still follow/handshake people, and avoid their tweets about the awesome tomato sandwich they just made).

What makes us floppy:
- No mutliple accounts management, ala Twhirl and the Tweetie.
- To ‘untick’ a tweet as read, one has to dexterously click on a tiny circle (bottom left) whereas in Twhirl, one can click anywhere on the tweet to ‘untick’; much easier and therefore quicker.

In conclusion:
There are many other features the latest beta of TweetDeck has to offer that may come in handy - especially if you need to translate your tweets into another language. But if you have multiple twitter accounts you frequently use, you’re out of luck for the moment.

A popular app with the twitter community, Tweetdeck is a solid and good looking choice.

Download for free from tweetdeck.com

There comes a time in any teenage boy’s life when they feel the urge to measure their junk.

The same is sometimes true in day-to-day OS X living.

Sometimes when I’ve been on a rampant deleting spree through all my files, I want to know how many megs I managed to knock off my minuscule MacBook Air SSD in order to feel good about myself, before recycling them all to hell.

Unfortunately there is no easy way to check this from the Trash Can itself, but here’s another simple way:

From Finder, Go To Folder (Command + Shift + G) and enter:

~/.Trash

This will expose the otherwise hidden Trash folder, allowing you to do a quick Get Info (Command + I) to size it up. (Any folder with a leading period is automatically hidden in OS X).

Snow Leopard is expected to bring improvements to OS X’s Trash, including the ability to restore accidentally deleted files to their original location with one-click.

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See! It was only going to be a matter of time before Google Maps came down with something nasty after consistently spreading its legs for the iPhone, the G1, and now a plethora of other mobile devices in dark alleyways.

The introduction of the new Map API in iPhone software 3.0, will only further extend its reach into many more mobile apps. We just hope they use protection.

Hot off the heels of Dan’s own search for a laptop for under $1000, it appears that Homeless Frank of Landline TV is also on the case.

Boom. One after the other. Don’t show the Windoze fanboys!!

Perhaps the beginning of a spin-off site ala UnexpectedlyQuit.com?

Flop Ya Mac Out casually observes that John Gruber’s latest batch of t-shirts default to ‘Guy XL’ when one places an order.

One can rest assured that when Flop Ya Mac Out releases t-shirts, upon ordering, they’ll be defaulting to ‘Ladies Tight Fit.’

Horses for courses, people. Horses for courses.

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Full disclosure: Flop Ya Mac Out owns Daring Fireball t-shirt stock.
We love you, John.