I have become completely addicted to Twitter in the last few months. I use it to keep family and close friends up-to-date on what’s going on in my very current life (even if that does consists of which NES games I am currently playing). And with Twitter having issues as of late I have come to find a new best friend in a client during Fail Whale attacks.

Twiddict is an awesome webclient for Twitter that saves your tweets in a queue in the event your most favorite desktop client (or the Twitter web page) can’t seem to post. I currently have Twiddict up in my Bookmarks Bar where all my important everyday accessed links are. I highly suggest adding this to your arsenal of links.

Quick notice to those who we are hosting email for, everything should be exactly the same except for how you access webmail. Instead of accessing the subdomain webmail, you simply add webmail as a directory.

Not counting the new server we have two servers with RocketDock.com being on its own. Although RocketDock is pretty popular it is ridiculous that the server it is currently on cannot support it with out going down once a day. So we took funds thanks to all our very loyal fans who have donated and bought a new setup. I won’t go into too many details regarding the old server, but the new guy is:

Running CentOS Enterprise
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4 x 2.4GHZ 8MB Cache 1066)
RAM : 4GB ECC DDR2
Hard Drive : 250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache
Control Panel : cPanel / WHM
Public Port Speed : 100 Mbs Public
Private Port Speed : 100 Mbs Private
Public Bandwidth : 2000GB Premium Transfer

RocketDock.com has already made the migration over to the new server and the DNS update should (if not already) be propagated. Once we get some good statistics on how the new server is running with just RocketDock.com we will start migrating over all our other sites if the server appears to be able to handle it (and with these specs it should).

If anyone find anything out of place please be sure to let me know either via the contact form, comment, or send me a tweet on Twitter.

PolyVector found this little guy resting in our Japanese eggplant.

Update: PolyVector got some new daytime shots of our toad (finally took the time to look it up, he is indeed a toad).

Despite the new iPhone 2.0 firmware being almost two weeks away I needed a solution to posting pictures to Twitter without jail breaking my phone. This is where TwitPic comes in.

On July 11th when the new iPhone firmware is released I am sure there will be Twitter clients that will have the ability to post pictures, but if you are like me and can’t wait I think you might enjoy this. It took me a little longer than a lot of fellow Twits out here but better late than never. This might also be a snazzy solution for those who might not have an iPhone/iPod Touch or a desktop Twitter client that supports picture posting.

Let me first explain what TwitPic is. Simply you upload a picture to their servers along with your tweet and they will automatically post a link to your picture accompanied by your tweet straight to Twitter. You also get your own TwitPic profile page that shows only your picture baring tweets.

So here’s the awesome part, TwitPic allows you to email them your photo and the subject of the email would be your tweet. It will look something like this on your Twitter timeline:

To get everything setup you log into TwitPic using your normal Twitter username/pass and proceed to your Settings page where you see the email address you use to post to your account. The email is your username combined with a “pin” that you can change.

This has worked great for me so far and it might continue to be my solution depending on what Twitter clients will be available for the iPhone come July 11th. But more on that later.

I told her for the next 24 hours let her iMac sit unplugged from all USB and power sources and see if it is just some kind of static build up. I know the solution sounds stupid, but I have had weirder things fix non-botting computers.

If anyone would like to chime in with some pearls of wisdom, we are all ears. I will be searching around the Macosphere. Apple’s troubleshooting page for PPC iMacs was no help.

Update: I made an appointment with the Apple Store in Fashion Valley (San Diego) for Thursday to get MegaNice9’s iMac checked out.

I just got up Atomac’s new iPhone/iPod Touch compatible theme to make posting from your favorite Apple mobile device much more comfortable. Enjoy!