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December 20, 2006 • 12:14 am 0

AppSnap reviewed on Lifehacker

I just found out that AppSnap was reviewed on Lifehacker. My web server apparently took a beating and was down. Considering I was travelling for most of today, I just got to fixing it. Hopefully, it fares better now that I’ve tweaked some settings.

I’m a regular reader and fan of Lifehacker and am very happy to see AppSnap on their front page. Thanks to Gina Trapani and the Lifehacker gang for their show of support. The extra eyes and feedback will surely help make AppSnap more useful to people out there.

Filed under: Blog Update

December 17, 2006 • 3:19 am 5

Unreasonable Firefox memory usage

I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 recently and was impressed like most other folks. Things were fine until I started noticing excessive hard disk activity as well as sluggish performance and intermittant hangs.

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