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There’s a little website on the internet you might have heard of called YouTube, today celebrating its seventh birthday. First launched in May 2005, the video sharing site exploded in popularity after it was acquired by Google and is churning out videos and views at an breakneck pace. The first crazy stat to take away? 72 hours of video are uploaded to the site very minute, up from 48 hours last year.

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A quick reminder in case you’re not following the various legal battles happening across the tech industry right now: everyone is suing everyone. One of the most prominent cases involves a legal tussle between Apple and Samsung, with Cupertino pointing fingers at the South Korean manufacturer, claiming that they blatantly copied various products. Nu, the courts have ordered the two companies to try and settle the issue before the trial starts.

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Ah, YouTube. It wasn’t long ago that that it was pumping out around 60 hours of content every 60 seconden, but nothing can stop the video juggernaut. Celebrating its seven years of existence with a video charting its rise, rise and rise, YouTube’s official blog has also announced that it’s now dealing with an eye-bleeding 72 hours of video every minute. We’re still finding all this content as pervasive as ever though, with over 3 billion hours now watched every month. Catch the site blowing its own trumpet in the tribute vid right after the break — which is all well and good, but where’s the free spel?

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Over at the sweetest little camera shop on the web, Photojojo, there’s a brand new gadget ready to connect your iPhone to your DSLR. All it actually consists of in the physical package is a cord with a tiny box on it able to convert signals from your iPhone to your DSLR camera that’ll tell it to do a variety of actions. You can use this little beast with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and it’ll work right this minute with your Canon, Samsung, Haddeblad, or Pentax camera – with Nikon on the way as well!

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Over at the sweetest little camera shop on the web, Photojojo, there’s a brand new gadget ready to connect your iPhone to your DSLR. All it actually consists of in the physical package is a cord with a tiny box on it able to convert signals from your iPhone to your DSLR camera that’ll tell it to do a variety of actions. You can use this little beast with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and it’ll work right this minute with your Canon, Samsung, Haddeblad, or Pentax camera – with Nikon on the way as well!

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This may just be the biggest single giveaway we’ve held on Engadget yet. We dare you to resist the tempting lure of an 11-inch MacBook Air with 4GB RAM and 128GB hard drive, capable of running Mac OS X and Windows 7! With graduation season upon us, our friends at Parallels are hooking you up with the best senior gift that you could possibly receive. So what’s this software all about? Essentially, it allows you to run Windows and OS X apps side-by-side on your Mac without rebooting — that way, you’ll get the best of both worlds.

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Remember that high-resolution variant of the Transformer Prime ASUS trotted out at CES? The federal government just finished putting it through its paces. The WiFi version of the firm’s upcoming Transformer Pad Infinity (formally numbered TF700T) sauntered its way through the FCC, revealing itself as the slate’s Tegra 3 optie, if only for its lack of having a cellular radio. The tablet’s LTE equipped sibling, echter, was nowhere to be found — though we’re sure the feds will put it through the official gauntlet soon enough. Hit the source link below to dive into the official report.

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This week the folks at Motorola are doing their best to let the world know that their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update schedule is based not on their inability to upgrade their devices, but on how willing they are to do so. In a bit of a sting to those who purchased Android devices with Motorola manufacturing over the past year or so, expecting the next Android system upgrade as they did so, the manufacturer has sent out a message to gebruikers that if ICS wouldn’t “improve” their devices, they would not be updated. Have a peek at the full list below.

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San Francisco startup Leap Motion today unveiled its killer product, a small USB-attached three dimensional sensor (a la Microsoft’s Kinect) which is meant for use in small spaces on small screens. The product is called Leap and is available in limited quantities for just $70.

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Most power gebruikers need more than just Windows native File Explorer to manage data saved on the hard disk. Although Windows Explorer provides you with a lot of useful options to view, search and access stored content, sometimes we need some additional features to efficiently organize the files in a folder. Along with the native features of Windows, we always keep covering third-party software that can increase your usability and reduce the amount of time you spend while performing simple tasks. We stumbled across one such toepassing today, a file explorer named Desk & Archive, which lets you manage your stored files and helps you create, copy, and move files and folders to specified locations. It comes packed with some additional file management features including Smart Sort that lets you quickly change the file and folder sorting criteria, Ad hoc Item Lists to open files from multiple folders in a single pane, and Filters to group similar files together for easy access. Keep reading to find out more about Desk & Archive.

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