For some time now, Flickr users have been able to use Picnik to edit photos in-stream without leaving the app. Now that Picnik is a Google property, Picasa users will have roughly the same advantage. As of today , Picasa Web Albums users will be able to use Picnik’s editing tools without ever leaving their accounts

OpenTable has finally brought its restaurant reservation services to the iPad , taking advantage of the screen’s additional real estate to improve upon its app for the iPhone and iPod touch . The app [iTunes link] offers the same search functionality as the iPhone version, including the ability to to search by restaurant name, cuisine type, neighborhood and current location. Users can search for open tables for their party within a specified geographic and time range, pull up a restaurant’s location on a map, and peruse the menu and diner reviews before making a reservation

Yesterday Apple unveiled Safari 5 , which now includes extensions. Unfortunately, extensions are still in their nascent form and you’d have to be somewhat of a sleuth to even track down the functionality, let alone find and install extensions. For those of you ready to test the waters of Safari extensions, here’s how: Enable Extensions Safari Extensions is technically a developer-only feature at the moment

Skype group video calling is here. The company has just released a new version of their desktop software that supports five-way video calls. At launch, this beta version of Skype is free to download and use for PC users.

Hulu plans to launch a new, larger version of its web video player with features to ensure consistent and smooth playback, among other things. The new player was announced in a blog post on Hulu’s website that claimed the new player would go live today. The post, however, was subsequently pulled and we’re not sure why

Earlier this year we predicted that Twitter would use geotagging to identify physical places via Twitter, and today Evan Williams announced at the Chirp conference that the company is doing just that with its new Points of Interest feature. The feature doesn’t appear to be live yet, but soon users will have the ability to click on a place name — included in geotagged tweets — to view the particular place on a map

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Opera is playing a somewhat odd game with Apple . Their Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers are great mobile browsers , but the iPhone already has a great mobile browser — Safari. This fact alone wouldn’t be that big of a problem if Apple’s rules weren’t prohibiting other apps to duplicate the functionality of their own apps.

Talk about not learning from others’ mistakes. Apple has been bashed for months due to lack of copy and paste on its iPhone – never mind if you actually use clipboard or not (I bet most people don’t), it’s a smart phone, and not having this functionality makes the phone seem a lot less smart. Users gave Apple no rest until it finally included the functionality , and it seems like Microsoft will have to go through the same ordeal on its Windows Phone 7 devices, as Engadget discovered they won’t have copy and paste , either.