I have Clearwire for internet and sometimes the connection is not as quick. The good part is it is fairly affordable. It does require signing a lengthy contract.
Just today, I was trying to load a video and check my mail (gmail), view my twitter feeds (twitter.com) and read an article on Write to Done. Therefore, I had four tabs open on Safari 4. The video seemed to take a lot of time to load and was slowing up my other pages. I quickly closed the Gmail and Twitter tabs on Safari 4 but had the article on Write to Done open. I use Readability to read articles online so they appear minimal and don’t eat up much resources. Even then, the video did not seem to load well.
So, I hit Cmd+3, my keyboard shortcut for the Instapaper on the bookmarks bar to save the article on instapaper. Then closed the tab to only had the page with the video open. This helped speed up the process.
After watching the video, I will open instapaper and go through my saved articles. The goal is to have all items read by the end of the day and have a clean list. It is the same rule for emails, both home and work.
The bottom line is that I need a faster internet service. Until my contract runs out, I am going to keep my browsing minimal and smart to make the best of the situation.
