Archive for August, 2009
Rare icons: AOL Logo/Big Icon PNG
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
It was pretty hard to me to find AOL’s logo/icon in PNG format (with transparency). However I found it, but in JPG format. So I had to remove the white background and make the edges smooth. Here’s what I got: Hope you need it sometime.
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Twitter news: The updating, deleting of statuses, direct message (…) issues are now solved for Firefox 3.5
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Yay! Twitter is usable again for me, after two days of no possibility to update/delete statuses, send direct messages and so on. Hopefully this won’t happen again
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Google search engine: is indexing everything, but how accurate? Strange things happening on IconArchive.com
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
No, really, it’s strange when you see that Google is suggesting you some results that are not relevant at all to your search! I was searching for a ß icon on iconarchive.com with Google’s Custom search engine, but instead of getting relevant results to my query, I got strange results, that only computers understand. It [...]
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Twitter: Downtime has ended but some features don’t work (following/unfollowing/status updates)
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Twitter is up and running again, but some essential features, such as the following, unfollowing, status updating, sending direct messages, all are still not working. It seems Twitter is facing a very difficult issue, that happened too fast, taking on assault Twitter’s servers. Hopefully tomorrow everything will be fine, or too many users will get [...]
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Web Buzzz: Twitter is becoming slow and inaccessible. Often connection timeouts
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
These days Twitter has become inaccessible for me too many times. I’m wondering if those guys at Twitter are doing something to improve the system, because in my case, I am getting really pissed of those continuous timeouts. If you’re getting this notice “The connection was reset while trying to connect twitter.com” , you’re most [...]
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Web buzzz: How to check if a person you’re following on Twitter, is following you
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
It seems there are no official methods on Twitter to check if a person you’re following is also following you in return. However, here’s what I found on Twitter: In addition to public updates and @replies, you can send followers private tweets, called direct messages, too. If someone is following you, you can send a [...]
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Apps: Firefox 3.5 uses less ram than ever! Kudos to Mozilla developers
Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve switched to Firefox 3.5.3 on Ubuntu from Firefox 3.1 and I was surprised how fast and optimized the new Firefox is. When browsing with several (more than 10) tabs at once with Firefox 3.1, RAM usage went up to 1.3 GB!! That is why I had to upgrade my PC with 2 more GB [...]