Thank you Time for reminding me. http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1895117_1877046,00.html
Archive for June, 2009
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009Twitter Introduces Verified Accounts
Sunday, June 7th, 2009The recent Twitter V’s some Baseball dude battle has seen the introduction of Twitter Verified Accounts. This was bound to happen, and Twitter’s judgement-to-date has been pretty good. So I really hope they remember ….
- That some “fake accounts” are actually in good humour and welcomed by the real namesake
- Being a “public official, public agency, famous artist, athlete, and other well known individual”, does not entitle that person to their name on Twitter: they SHOULD NOT have precedent over “everyday people” who have exactly the same name. For example: there’s no doubt more than 1 Steve Jobs on the planet. So if Everyday Steve Jobs has a Twitter account, and is NOT trying to impersinate Apple Steve Jobs, there is no issue.
- Verifying a Real v’s Fake account needs much more consideration than checking the web address linked in the user profile. I’m not sure that’s good advice by Twitter, on several fronts.
I was surprised and sceptical when reading yesterday’s news reporting Twitter had settled the lawsuit. The report was wrong. It seems Mashable’s news (and several other sources) was as fake as the account they were reporting on.
Twitter. Is. Back (online)
Saturday, June 6th, 2009Well, I was hoping that Twitter would have some cool, groovy, Twittery graphic annoucing their return from the schedule maintenance. But it’s just business as per usual. Anyway, they’re back.
Twitter. Is. Down.
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Twitter Goes Down
Twitter is officially down for one hour of scheduled maintenance as of now. For we Aussies, that’s 1pm Saturday, June 6. If you want to convert that to a different timezone, this link will guide your way.
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=5&year=2009&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=224
TweetDeck – Another Reason to Use Tweetie For Mac
Saturday, June 6th, 2009Source: http://gawker.com/5277836/twitter-addicts-bringing-down-new-york-times-computers
Synopsis: TweetDeck is a resource hog
Moral of this story: Use Tweetie for Mac
Article courtesy of Gawker.com
Google Chrome for Mac Pre-Release Available
Saturday, June 6th, 2009The Chromium Blog have released details of the released Chrome versions for Mac and Linux. They say outright “whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.”
So the choice is yours. Here’s the dowload link for Google Chrome for Mac http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger-mac-and-linux-builds-available.html
Google Page Speed
Friday, June 5th, 2009By word Google, you’ve done it again. You’ve given we web folk another simple tool that makes our life easier, and our websites faster. The newest addition to the Google stable of website wonders is Google Page Speed. It’s officially open-source, and works in cahoots with FireFox and FireBug (so you need both those tools to run it).
Page Speed takes Firebug to another level, showing you some really cool stats and facts on your test page. Some of the coolest features are ….
- CSS Efficiency: It goes as far as advising how many, and which of your CSS rules are either “inefficient” or ”very inefficient” rules.
- Unused CSS: Do you have one big, sitewide style sheet? Google Page Speed will tell you the size, the %, AND which selectors are unused on the test page. It’s is a big eye opener when you see how much CSS is load but not necessary.
And there are plenty more worth mentioning, including …
- Script and Style order
- Proxy Caching
- Browser Caching
- JavaScript Optimisation
- Image Optimisation
- DNS Lookups
- Parallel Downloads
- and heaps more
Page Speed is a MUST try, so here’s the Google Page Speed download link.
Quick Twitter Tip to fix the Background Bug
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Twitter are having some major issues right now. Alot of Users can’t update their profiles, and alot more can’t get their background image to save/upload/stick. If you’re one of them, try this Quick Twitter Tip that has worked for several accounts I’ve been having problems with.
- Go to: Settings > Design > Change background image
- Choose your new background image file, but don’t press “Save Changes” (yet)
- Swap over to the “Change design colors” tab
- Make a change to one of the design settings (even if it’s just retyping the same colour code in the box)
- Then click “Save changes” from the Design Settings page
Strange I know. But this has proved successful on at least 5 accounts that are effected by the Twitter BackGround Bug.
Google Wave
Monday, June 1st, 2009Everyone is talking about Google Wave. There is a demo video available from the Google I/O 2009 Conference. When I saw the 1hr 20min duration and thought “no way! I am NOT watching that”. But then I read Seth Godin talking up Google Wave, and I couldn’t help myself.