Everyone with a Twitter account is familiar with their availability issues. According to Twitter it’s just another case of bad hosting. Web frameworks like the ones used by Twitter(Rails) are very demanding and costly to scale. On demand infrastructure is becoming a very important factor for startup success, and a barrier to entry for new [...]
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Monthly Archives January 2008
MarsEdit Updated to 2.1
Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater, jut updated my favorite blogging app MarsEdit. It has some interesting feature upgrades like:
-Improved Tagging(more Mac like)
-Better searching(fast even while testing it with 100 blog posts…even though the max recommended is 30)
-Save as draft to server (not a big deal for me since I don’t like the Wordpress back-end anyway).
But [...]
Transmission will be default torrent client in Ubuntu
This is a great win for all Mac users!!! I don’t like using bloated (usually JAVA) software on a Mac(or ever for that matter) and thus the reason I don’t use Azureus. Many private trackers limit the types of torrent clients that can be used, thus not allowing you to use their service with Transmission. [...]
Post-Support Surveys Piss Me OFF!!!
When I contact a company for support on a service and the issue is not resolved, it pisses me off when there is an auto generated email/call asking to rate the service. Don’t they realize the issue is still pending? Isn’t the support specialist aware that he couldn’t solve the problem? They probably mark it [...]
Firefox 3 beta 2 for Mac : Web form rendering
Since I switched to a Mac, a couple of years back, I noticed that Firefox was rather slow and a complete memory hog in OS X.
That seems to be a thing of the past when the new Firefox 3 beta 2 arrived. Not only does it have a more Mac-like GUI, but it really [...]
Awaken 4 Released
Jerry Brace from Embraceware has just released v4 of his Mac OS X alarm clock. Very nice upgrade and site refresh(very cool looking). This is one of my recommended software, for it’s sleek, minimalist and easy to use approach. It is actually great for setting the computer to sleep without having to go to Energy [...]
Seattle could use rain-powered devices
There are plenty of energy resources available under heat/sun, but very few for rainy areas. In my quest to to prove that the next energy revolution will actually be a-la “long tail”:
After using computer models to find out just how much energy could be created by rainfall landing on piezoelectric materials, they determined that between [...]
Great tip for demo presentation
Don’t let your audience know what’s coming next. Great keynote trick from TUAW.
(Via TUAW.)
Lesson Learned for “Digg Revolt”
That same night after the open letter was posted, Jay Adelson and Kevin rose stood up and talked about the changes. The dissuaded the “rebels” to stop the revolt.
Jay Adelson’s comments on what happened:
“Let’s be realistic about what happened yesterday,” Adelson says. “It wasn’t a revolt. To me, a revolt is when [...]
Web 2.0 Certifyr (funny)
There are things in life you can’t make up….for everything else, there is always the internetz. I found a funny Web 2.0 certifier. I found this via Redzee with a search for: web 2.0.
(ice crums is 88% compliant…..nice!!!)