May, 2009


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May 09

5 Reasons Why I like DestroyTwitter more then TweetDeck

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This is the first of this kinda of topic, at least for me anyways. But I’m going to share with you 5 reasons why i like/think DestoryTwitter is better then TweetDeck.

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First reason and number 1 (at least for me), Desktop realestate. DestoryTwitter takes up less space on the screen because it uses a slightly smaller font, the tweeters avatars are smaller and there is no unneeded padding around the borders. See the picture to the right. 

Second and probably more important then the first, Memory usage. I’ve had DestoryTwitter open for at least the past 24 hours, or more, and its memory usage is barely above 50mb of memory usage. So far iv had TweetDeck open about half an hour, open a few windows did a couple things, and its already up to 100mb.

The third reason is the replies, Direct messages, groups and search tabs on DestoryTwitter are always active. You can easily swap from one to another, with just one click. In TweetDeck you’d have to open a new column and scroll over to it. I also assume that every time you open a new tab it uses up a API call. 

Number four is the ability to filter the home tab. I assume you could do this with groups on TweetDeck just fine but your home tab would still get swamped with tweets and possibly fill up memory. You can filter it to only include a set of users and keywords or exclude users and keywords. Very useful for filtering out any tweet. For example tweets that have the tag #spymaster?

Last and not least is my number five reason. In DestroyTwitter, when you click on a #tag link, it will pull up a search tab in the app. When i tried this in TweetDeck, it opened my browser and went to twitters search page.

For me looks are more importatnt to me then feartures. So just give it a try you might like it as much as i do.

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May 09

No WWW

A while ago, i found a site called “http://no-www.org/” where they beleive that “www” should be deprecated from urls. This is what they have to say about it.

Why is .www deprecated?

In order to answer this question, we must first recall the definition of WWW:

World Wide Web:
n. Abbr. WWW
1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.

Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

I beleive that they have a very good point, and dont see why we should support these ideas. “www” is truly redundent. You can see that i support this idea on my site. If you go to http://www.justgizzmo.com/ you will be redirected to http://justgizzmo.com.

So i ask you, do you support http://no-www.org? If you do, you can add the following to your .htaccess to become a “Class B” domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Be sure to check out http://no-www.org/ for more info and get your domain validated


26
May 09

My New Argent Hippogryph

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Last night i finely got my Argent Hippogryph. Took me about a month and a half to farm the Champion’s Seals. If it wasn’t for blizzard reducing the price, i would still be farming the seals for about another month.

Now the only thing i have to do is farm seals again to buy the other mounts. Ill probably do the mounts that cost 100 seals then the ones that cost 400g and 5 seals, then ill go for the tabards. I really wanna get all the items.


23
May 09

Pain – Shut your mouth

I dont know if i posted before, but im gonna post it anyways. I really like this song. Metal with some synthesizer makes great music :P

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2gXMRoPv_M