Gadget Links: Web 2.0 Overload Edition

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  • How to link Twitter to Facebook – A Twitter Tutorial on AJVayerchuck.com: A concise explanation of how to install the Twitter app within Facebook and allow it to update your Facebook status.
  • Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby on 43Folders: “…you might be able to guess where my head is right now. Yep. It’s on clutter, and on what I need to do to get my face back into Peter Walsh’s excellent de-cluttering book as a means for regaining domestic sanity and striding toward the possibility of a life without tripping, piling, or losing what’s left of my sleep-deprived mind.”
  • Hi-Res YouTube Hacks on O’Reilly Digital Media: A great little article that covers why YouTube rocks for casual video sharing and how to force YouTube playback to the highest resolution possible.
  • LCD Scrub cleans those stubborn stains from your screen on TUAW: “While LCD screens aren’t nearly as likely to run into image persistence issues as older CRTs, they aren’t immune to damage, as developer Daniel Sandler… learned to his dismay a year ago. After his flat-panel got munged by green static overnight, he whipped up a pattern-shifting screensaver to repair the burned-in pixels (based on Apple’s recommendation of leaving an all-white image over the affected areas). Whaddaya know, it worked…. “
  • Mac 101: Zoom and pan images in Quick Look on TUAW: “Is your laptop not among those that can do Multi-touch? Don’t feel badly, you can replicate those great features!” I didn’t know you could do zooming and panning in Quick Look.
  • Media Center: Roll a Mac Mini Media Center with Leopard on Lifehacker: “We’ve talked about building a Mac mini media center and other ways to pimp your mini in the past, but blogger Jon Hicks revisits the Mac mini media center with a focus on using it with Leopard and EyeTV (a Mac DVR solution). While Apple TV is doing its best to justify a place in your living room, it still doesn’t time-shift television, and many Mac enthusiasts still find that the Mac mini still outdoes Apple’s latest media center offering.”