Category: General

Tweetie ‘Unauthorized. Could not authenticate you.’

tweetie-could-not-authenticate-youI saw this message earlier today after trying to get Tweetie to work on my home Mac.  I was able to setup multiple accounts with ease at work, but for the life of me could not figure out why I was getting this error message. I tried retyping my account details multiple times, each time making sure to type my password as slowly and precisely as possible.

After an apropos search on Twitter about the error I came across this tweet.

rbieber: @frumpa thats odd. This time I entered the password first (where focus defaults) and then username and authenticated fine. Bug?

A quick test confirmed that the order in which you enter your credentials for secondary accounts is a bug.  It appears  you need to enter your password first and then your username.

If this doesn’t make any sense, see the video below.

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I should mention despite this small bug I’m enjoying Tweetie very much and am sure the developers will remedy this. Most likely right after I hit the Publish button.

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Update: Well pretty close, atebits updated Tweetie today to 1.0.2, which fixes this problem.

Get on a Diet iTunes

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It’s amazing how quickly you can fill up 100gb.  I started running out of space on my Macbook Pro and decided to start some ‘spring cleaning’ if you will.

Now, I love iTunes and I’m sure this is something that will be changed in Snow Leopard – at least I can hope.

After running Xslimmer I shaved nearly 100mb off of iTunes alone.  This is just removing language and PPC bianaires from the app!

If iTunes is this slim in the future maybe it won’t eat so much RAM.