Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! I’m guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of loved ones together in one room? Dark truths are revealed (that and Aunt Marge’s bald head after she loses her wig limboing at your yearly BBQ). So in honor of all the upcoming unburdening, we’ve made “Secrets” the theme of this week’s YouTube roundup. The below vids, however, are less Tear-Your-Family-Apart and more Fun-For-The-Whole-Clan, so we suggest firing up the old laptop (or iPad) and gathering your brood around the screen for some thoroughly illuminating YouTube fare. Snoop Dogg's Secret Josh Catone: Snoop... seeeeeeecrets. Beatboxing Flute Inspector Gadget Remix Erica Swallow: Inspector Gadget can solve any secret with the help of his trusty friends Penny and Brain, but can he figure out ho ...

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Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog , where she writes about the web, the world and what it?s like to be a geek chic chick. Just because the economy is still depressed doesn’t mean you have to be. In fact, there are plenty of ways to live it up without seeing your bank balance plummet — especially if you know how to use social media to live the good life on tight budget. Even the most reclusive social media shut-ins need to leave the house for some in-person networking at some point. And when you do, you don’t want to look like the poor slob who just threw on whichever pants were closest to the computer screen. Nor do you want to be the designer diva who can’t afford cab fare because she blew all her bucks on a brand name bag. Fortunately, thanks to a few online tips and tricks, high fashion doesn’t have to come with a high p ...

NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone. NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well as live stream NASA TV. The app also includes access to curated topic areas, like “Women in Space,” and to NASA Twitter feeds from around the agency. While the satellite trackers and mission information is interesting, our favorite part of the app are the photographs. NASA has a huge archive of photographs — some of which were released to Flickr earlier this week — and thousands of these images are accessible in the app. You can also share photos and videos via Twitter and Facebook. Check out this gallery to see the NASA HD app in action. NASA iPad - Home Screen NASA iPad - Home Screen NASA iPad - Jupiter NASA iPad - Satellite Views You can go directly to specific satellites bas ...

hello Xoopsers, I am happy to share with you a new Lebanese website I created, based on XOOPS 2.4.5. It's Graneroverde, a small touristic project in the Lebanese mountains. First, a big thanks for Mage , nikita , and Mowaffaq for their precious helps to do many necessary hacks for modules. The modules used are : - Publisher : to do news and internal pages. - Extgallery 1.07 with lightbox effects on the horizontal random block : this module is used as photo album. - TDMDownloads 1.5 with many hacks : while there isn't a rental module in XOOPS , (or at least I dont know it), it was necessary to me to make online chalet rental system by using TDMDownloads after adding a reservation form in the page of each chalet, also by making several changes to the language and templates. the form is added by Mage. - xfguestbook 2.5 to create a guestbook - Google map - tad_faq : to create the frequenty asked questions regarding online reservation and registration on the website. - Cont ...

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Apple this week launched Ping , a new social network that runs within the iTunes software. Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are “talking about, listening to, and downloading”. In theory, this should take us beyond mainstream hits and further down the so-called “long tail” of lesser known artists. It’s here that Ping fails to deliver: The network is currently just another way to follow Lady Gaga. That’s the topic of my CNN column this week. Read the full column at CNN.com > > Reviews: Facebook , Ping , Twitter More about : apple , cnn , itunes , itunes ping , Ping , social media , social networking For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad ...

Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media , where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you can follow her on Twitter @AlannaFrancis . We?re thrilled that the Associated Press has recently released an updated set of style rules specifically tailored to web and social media terms. But given how quickly new sites and their accompanying terms gain popularity, it can be difficult to keep up. Such is the case for geolocation services like Facebook Places , Foursquare , Gowalla , and Brightkite . Geolocation services allow users to keep friends and followers posted on where they are at all times. We have a specific phrase to describe this action. However, said phrase raises some grammatical quandaries for social media grammar geeks such as myself. You might be familiar with this phrase by now, and it is more than likel ...

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. Beyond the latest spam attacks, issues with Facebook Connect , international access issues and unclear policies for musicians have plagued the service. These messages, which you can see in the screenshot below, are showing up in comments to posts from iTunes Featured Artists or in responses to posts from other users who make their content accessible to anyone. Online spam is perhaps the annoyance that unifies us all. No matter how big a company or network or blog is (or small), the spammers will come. What’s curious is that it doesn&#8217 ...

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. If you’ve ever been to Chi-Town, you’ve probably partaken in Hot Doug’s wondrous wares — dude even braved a fine for serving up foie gras hot dogs during the ban of that particular duck product in the Windy City. In short: He makes good hot dogs, and the line is often long to procure one. First came a Twitter feed, designed to keep tabs on wait times, and then the Onion partnered with Invoke to develop WaitList , a free iPhone app for the hungry and the impatient. Basically, it ...