Category: Technology

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.

Hudson’s Heroes

The recent emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson river has made me think of three things.

First, after reading this story, it is entirely possible for people to keep their shit together in this day and age.  There were few people who acted in a ignorant manner, but the common sense of the majority prevailed for once.

I love this quote from an article over on NyTimes.

Nick Gamache, 32, a software salesman, had moments earlier sent his wife a text message that read, “Planes on fire love you and the kids,” so he was naturally in a hurry to update her. But he paused as the pilot told him to carefully step into the raft.

Could you imaging being on the recieving end of that txt?  What the wife must have thought when she saw that, sitting at her desk at work, at home with the kids, or out running errands?  How mind blowing.  

Then to hear on the news that there was in fact a crash landing.  Crazy.

Second thing that amazes me most is the amount of video footage there is of the actual crash itself.

While I’m well aware we live in an time where almost everything is monitored this still blows my mind.  Upon the first time hearing of the crash I just knew that given enough time some form of footage would appear.

Third and final is the lack of appreciation our society places on older people.  While Captian Sullenberg is only 57, thats a few shy years from the forced retirement age of 60.

If a dude who is that close to retiring can land a fricking plane, in the middle of a river what else are people his age (and older) capable of?

We should all respect those with wisdom and experiences far greater than ours.  

For those who are interested Jason Kottke has more on the crash, including a few other videos.