The infrequently updated blog of Matt Kirman. Founder & web app developer. Rubyist. Dangerous with coffee.

Articles tagged: #twitter

Super Secret Preferences in Twitter for Mac without the Nanobundle

It annoyed my slightly that simple things such as hitting escape to close the new tweet window were only available to people who’d purchased the MacHeist Nanobundle. You can enable these preferences yourself with only a small amount of command line tinkering.

To disable the preference that you’ve just enabled change true to false and vice versa.

Why fee is better than free

There is a major problem with the approach of many internet based companies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much a fan of them as anybody, but if they want to survive they need to get smart. And fast.

Very simply, the majority of internet based companies are not self-sufficient. Without massive injections of cash from their investors/founders they would not survive their first year in business. This is due to their inability to raise any revenue from their user base.

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