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If you spend a lot of time re-organizing your windows to maximize your screen real estate on a daily basis, you probably also waste a lot of time re-sizing your windows to fit onto your screen. Apps currently exist to quickly shunt a window onto different parts of your screen, but none do it as well as Moom.

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[UPDATE] Looks like the video has been pulled. Jeffery Harrell confirmed via twitter that he was asked to take it down by Vimeo’s rights department.

In case you’ve missed it, Apple’s new video editing app, called Final Cut Pro X, has been polarizing editors everywhere. This video pretty much sums up why the app is unusable for most professional environments.

I have no title for this from Jeffery Harrell on Vimeo.

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If you’ve ever tried getting a refund for an application that you hated from either Apple or Google, you probably know the frustrations that come along with getting your money back. It’s not easy, and in fact, in some cases it’s not even possible.

Taiwan on the other hand seems to disagree entirely, and instead of letting the companies, in this case Apple and Google, determine what the refund policy will entail, the government has fined Google $34,000 for not granting customers a seven-day trial period when they download applications to their cellphones. In Taiwan, all companies must provide a seven day cooling-off period for purchases made online, thereby  giving consumers the right to return products up to seven days after purchase.

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If you’re on the cutting edge of the iOS releases, or you prefer to run a jailbroken version of iOS, you may find yourself having some difficulties in the future. Apple has taken measures to prevent users from restoring older firmware versions of iOS in the latest iOS 5 beta release.

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Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore thinks Apple will be releasing two different iPhones in September, one that will carry a $350 price tag and be called the iPhone 4S, and another, likely labelled the iPhone 5.

The iPhone 4S version would work much like the 3G iPad, letting owners sign up for pay as you go-ish plans that would let you purchase data plans based on what you need and use on a monthly basis, as opposed to signing a new contract.

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The Macgasm weekly rewind focuses on our original content and reviews that you may have missed the week starting June 20th. Justin reviews Writer for Mac. Mike not only brings us a review of Screeny, but we gave away 3 copies of it too. Joshua shows us that we can search right out of the blocks with Lion. Stephen shows us the incredibly useful U-Socket. He also picks a fantastic shot out of our macgasm Flickr group for his weekly Flickr Find Friday post. Joshua finds that Filterstorm was not only updated but is on sale for half off. Thanks for all your kind words this week. Have a great Saturday!

• Writer for Mac brings brutally efficient text production to the Mac
• Screeny: A Review and Giveaway!
• Lion: Spotlight no longer makes you wait for indexing
• U-Socket makes charging USB devices easier than ever
• Flickr Find Friday: A history of Apple music players
• Filterstorm gets an update, and now discounted until tonight

iLounge is reporting that high costs may be hampering Apple’s AirPlay and Thunderbolt from growing more quickly in the third-party market.

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Uh oh. Naughty Google. Supposedly the US Federal Trade Commission is on the brink of issuing subpoenas to Google for several antitrust investigations. It’s all down to their search and advertising trading that’s apparently breaking civil antitrust laws.

The FTC has been putting together its evidence that Google’s search / advertising operations are advocating “illegal anticompetitive behavior.” There’s no news about when the subpoenas are actually due to drop, but unnamed sources have indicated it should happen in the next couple of days.

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