Twitter Background Credits

I've recently redone my twitter background (which you can see on my twitter page), and in so doing used a few images that, while creative-commons-licensed, should be attributed. Because twitter pages can't easily hold credit links, it seemed worth doing here, rather than there.

Accordingly, you can find the images I used here:

• Coffee Stain
• Wood Grain
  

The perforated tractor-feed paper and polaroid were photoshopped together, rather than clipped; they're not perfect, but they're good enough for my purposes.

TweetDeck vs. Spaz

I've spent part of the day witih TweetDeck after weeks with Spaz, and have come away with some comparative notes.

Spaz

• Simple tabbed single-column layout.
  
• Works well with the keyboard, allows you to scroll up and down, lightly greys items you've previously looked at.
• Scrolls pretty smoothly.

TweetDeck

• Single or multi-column layout.
• Multi-column layout looks a little lame when most of the columns are empty.
• It's nice to be able to separate replies from the rest of your incoming messages.
• The ability to group people or have a few searches up at once seems handy, although I didn't use either, and I'm not sure how often I would.
• Feels jumpy when scrolling, easy to lose your place.
• Not well-suited to keyboard scrolling and difficult to know which items you've already read.

Basically, these are both reasonable clients with different strengths; if you need to organize your tweets, I imagine TweetDeck is your choice.  If Spaz' simple layout will work for you, I find it a little more usable right now.

I've also played briefly with twhirl, but so briefly that I don't really feel qualified to comment.  I found the skin to be more noisy and cluttered, so I quickly went back to Spaz.

Twitter Quote of the Day

"I used to think that people who didn't look constantly bewildered were smarter. Now, I think it's the other way around." - Michael Feathers.