by aaron on August 14, 2011
Of all of the social networking services out there, I like twitter the most. It’s the only one that I constantly use. One of the annoying things about twitter is that when you use two different devices you always have to scroll up to the most recent tweets. Somehow this concept has escaped the folks at twitter. I don’t understand why but it has.
Now, a developer is looking to change this. Manton Reece of Riverfold Software has developed a service called Tweet Marker that will sync your twitter timeline and you’ll always be up to date no matter which device you’re on.
Right now only twitterific from Icon Factory is using the service. I seriously thought about buying the app for all of my devices so I would always be in sync. For the time being I have decided against that since I like the apps that I’m using and have purchased. However it will be interesting to see how many other developers of twitter apps out there will use Tweet Marker in their applications. I know that I’ve already made the suggestion to Tapbots, the maker of Tweetbot (my favorite twitter app for the iPhone). If you want to see this service (and independent twitter clients stay around) I’d suggest making support for Tweet Marker a feature request.
by aaron on March 25, 2010
My friend, colleague and boss (take your pick on which order) wrote an interesting post last night about the where he sees some problems with the MacBook Pro hardware. Two of three complaints he has I have as well. One of them I just discovered recently and the other one has been a problem as long as I can remember.
- Is it hot in here or is it just your laptop? – I have been using a mac portable since around 2002/2003 when I bought my first PowerBook, the 12” variety. Since then, whenever I have had to put my PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro on my lap it hasn’t been pretty. The heat of these things is incredible. Maybe it is because Apple has decided to use aluminum to encase their laptops but you can fry an egg on the case if you were so inclined. It has gotten to the point where I bought a cooling unit for underneath the laptop. It has done wonders for keeping my lap cool.
- Don’t stand so close to me - Apple leave very little space between the two USB ports that they have on the MacBook Pros. As Chris shows on his blog, if you have a USB device that it a little too thick you are out of luck using the other port. I have noticed this recently when I plugged my 8GB USB drive in and I couldn’t fit anything into the other port.
Do you have any complaints about the MacBook Pros?