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May/080
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
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Loading ...I’ve been watching/listening to October 07’s FOWA presentations and the latest one I’ve heard – by Yahoo’s Steve Souders – struck me as worth a quick look. Who wouldn’t want to speed up their websites?
Steve describes 14 rules that make up a ‘best practices for speeding up your website’: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
And there’s also a way to use the Firefox add-in, Firebug in combination with YSlow to analyse your sites based on the 14 rules: http://www.getfirebug.com/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
We’ve been planning a css/js cache for a while now, but never got it off the ground, still seems that a few of the other rules could provide a good return on little investment.
Feb/096
Album artwork doesn’t show on iPod touch
If you find that your iPhone/iPod Touch isn’t displaying the album artwork in coverflow, but your computer that you sync it to shows it fine in iTunes, you’re probably wondering what’s going on!
This happened to me a few days ago, so I did some searching – most people seem to think it’s only just started happening in the latest versions of iTunes and on iPhones/iPod Touches with the 2.2 firmware on – I didn’t notice it happening before I upgraded my firmware, but then I only noticed it happening now by chance, so I can’t really say if what these people are saying is true.
Anyway, it’s a solution you came here for, so here goes.
I tried resetting my iPod, incase it was just something dodgy going on on the file system, or another process interfering. No Joy. :(
I’ve tried clearing all my album artwork in iTunes and then finding the images again using a combination of the “Get Album Artwork” feature in the iTunes store and some Amazon.co.uk searches, then syncing the device again. Again, no joy.
Finally, I decided to just delete the offending albums from my iPod and upload them to it again. To do that without losing the albums from your iTunes library, just plug your iPhone/iPod in, start iTunes, click on the device name in the list on the left and tick the box that says “Manually manage music and videos”. That will allow you to browse the library on your device, select the albums in question and delete them. When you’ve done that, untick the box you just ticked, hit OK in whatever dialogue box iTunes pops up and let it sync your device again.
This should copy the songs/albums from your computer’s library back to the device, and hopefully send the album artwork along with them!
Well, that’s what worked for me – if anyone has any better method of restoring artwork on an iPhone/iPod Touch, please leave a comment and let me know what you did!