TweetDeck is arguably Adobe AIR’s first killer application.
When I first heard about twitter.com, I dismissed it as the emperors new instant messenger. Indeed I ranted endlessly about it, to people who weren’t really interested—going on and on about how pointless it all was.
Then I found TweetDeck and realised how utterly useful and new and, above all, transformative the whole idea of micro blogging really was.
Here’s how I have my TweetDeck set-up, but you can have yours whichever way you want…
Column A shows all tweets from users I am following. Column B shows all replies to my tweets. Column C shows live search results for all keywords mentioned across the twitter-verse. Column D shows TwitScoop.com’s minute by minute keyword trends.
The bottom panel is where you tweet, post shortened links and TwitPics
The best part about TweetDeck, is that it looks and behaves the same on Mac as it does on PC—so there’s a uniform experience across machines, for those in a multi-cultural environment. It’s also insanely stable. Indeed, I’ve yet to manage to do something which causes TweetDeck to crash—and believe me, I’ve tried.
It can be only a matter of time before Apple patch iPhoto ‘09 to improve performance, but thanks to MacOSXHints.com we don’t have to wait for this particular fix.
Open your iPhoto library in terminal and paste this:
for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase "vacuum;"; done
That annoying spinning beach ball hanging bug, when you launch the application with more than a couple of thousand images in your collection, will be gone!
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You can serve web sites from your computer without paying for third party hosting. All you need is a permanent connection to the internet (DSL or better) and a Mac which can be left running 24/7.
Knowing this and knowing how to do this are two very different things. I set out to find out how it’s done and discovered a whole new world of technical in-speak and confusing jargon. This article is an attempt to put things into rather easier to understand language.
WARNING!
It may be against the terms and conditions of your Internet Service Provider’s contract to host high bandwidth websites from your private (residential) internet connection.
If you plan on setting up a permanent web host, with the intention of serving large files to high numbers of visitors, you’re much better off buying a solution from a dedicated third party hosting company.
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