Twitter has been having its own set of problems lately. Even though the status blog set up by them helps the users in knowing what’s going on at their end, all they can do is wait for the services to be back to normal.
Twitter engineers have been trying to keep the high load off by turning off a few of the features. The API requests limit, which was 70 at one time has now been brought down to 30 20. This has rendered most of the apps making uses of the API such as twitterrific, hahlo and Twhirl useless.
Also, one of twitter’s most used features, the @replies tab is also disable many a times by the engineers to keep the load off, thus making it extremely difficult to track tweets which have been addressed to you. Interestingly, the @replies tab is only capable of tracking tweets which begin with @username. If a tweet has @username somewhere in the middle of the tweet, it goes unnoticed. A lot of users, who log in to twitter after a break have found it difficult and annoying to scan to pages of tweets to see if someone addressed them. It gets more annoying when twitter turns off the pagination feature.
What does one do in such a scenario ?
This is where sites like Summize and TweetScan are helpful. Let’s take a look at Summize.
Okay, before you start hitting URLs, I am NOT an active member on Facebook or Orkut for that matter. I have accounts on the respective sites, just for the sake of it.
I found this video in one of my RSS subscriptions. Take a looksie. This is how Facebook in real life would be.
We all have friends. We all love to play pranks. But very few of us actually play pranks on our friends. Here’s a nifty little Windows trick that could easily land people in trouble.
What this trick basically does is, when a person tries to access any particular site via the browser, the browser will instead show up a website specified by you. Say your friend is a frequent visitor to orkut.com. You can very well do some magic so that instead of orkut.com, xxx.com opens up ( No, not xxx.com, I just mean any x site. :D )
This is really a great trick to do in the college/school labs, friends PC or even trick your family. Be careful where you are redirecting users to :P
Requirements:
Windows Administrator privileges
IP of the site you want to redirect the people to
Notepad
First, goto Start >> Run and type in cmd and press enter. In the command prompt, type ping domain.com where domain.com is the site you wanna redirect people too. For eg: google.com or simply use 64.22.110.209
Note down the IP address.
Now, open Notepad and click on File >> Open and navigate to the following path
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
and open the file name hosts
Now, add the following line at the end of the file.
64.22.110.209 orkut.com
( Replace the IP with any IP you like and the domain with any domain you want )
Save the file and exit.
Restart your browser.
( A lot of my readers already knew about it. I knew too. Its just for those who didn’t :| )
[Update]
I forgot to mention that this can also be used to block access to a certain website.
Just add the following line, instead of the one above..
Twitter has been having its own set of problems lately. Even though the status blog set up by them helps the users in knowing what’s going on at their end, all they can do is wait for the services to be back to normal.