Source: 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
TweetDeck – Another Reason to Use Tweetie For Mac
June 6th, 2009Google Chrome for Mac Pre-Release Available
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
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
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
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.
1 in 8 Million: by The New York Times
May 30th, 2009Robbie McEwen Crashes out of 2009 Tour de France
May 29th, 2009Robbie McEwen has had no luck this year. First up he had a sickening crash in Grand Prix de l’Escau, where he literally bounces off the road at 60kph and unbelievably, suffered mostly bruising and battering. This slow-motion video shows it well – Robbie is at the front, just right of centre, behind the yellow flag, in the blue nicks and white jersey. He’s the one that goes down REAL, HARD ….
After watching that crash you’d be forgiven for thinking Robbie’s season was over. But he was training the very next day (on the rollers) which shows just how tuff those little Aussies are. But now it DOES look like his season could be over – he’s most certainly out of the Tour de France.
And the irony is, in this latest stack Robbie didn’t even “hit the deck”. But while it looked pretty harmeless the injury is really bad – which tends to happen when your knee collects a stationary object while you’re traveling at +55kph. And while his post-crash Tweet wasn’t too pessimistic, it’s far from great news.
Lily Allen Interview
May 27th, 2009Lily Allen tours the World fastest than most. It wasn’t THAT LONG AGO that she were just here. This time around it will the songs off her new album, that fans here most. “It’s Not Me It’s You” is the much anticipated follow-up to Lilly’s debut album. Check your local music venues for dates around your town.
The Drive-By Truckers
May 25th, 2009The Drive-By Truckers (DBT’s) are an American 5 peice who have rocked audiences Worldwide for the last decade. It’s therefore nearly impossible to believe that 2009 is the first time The Drive-By Truckers have hit Australian shores.
The Best Twitter Tee Yet
May 24th, 2009Twitter Tees has been launched as a partnership between Twitter and Threadless. So Tweets are nominated and voted on, with the best of the best being printed then sold. The tweet below, is the best one I’ve read yet. Vote for it to see it transformed from Tweet to T-shirt: http://twitter.threadless.com/tweet/18071/You_want_the_twooth_You_can_t_handle_the_twooth_Did_you_order_the_Tweet_Did_you_order_the_Tweet_You_re_goddam_right_I_did
You want the twooth?
You can’t handle the twooth!
Did you order the Tweet? Did you order the Tweet?!
You’re goddam right I did!!