Monday, January 12, 2009

Adobe Air Apps...

I used to use twhirl, for friendfeed/twitter. Leaving it running over night bloated the memory usage to about 450MB. So I stopped using twhirl.

Then I found tweetdeck, a great application for twitter. I managed to leave it running on a system over the weekend. This morning I notice the hard drive working like crazy. Its an old machine with a single core 1.6 1.73 Ghz processor, and 1 GB of Ram. Logging into Windows XP and running task manager (which took a significant amount of time) shows tweetdeck using about 610 MB of memory.

Thats insane!

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...