All right Tweetdeck fans, rev up your engines and prepare to update to Tweetdeck 0.33, which adds a slew of new features, better API management and more in-Tweetdeck media previews.

We could list all the new features in Tweetdeck0.33, but the company was nice enough to make this little video that shows everything off:

Some of the highlights:

Tweetdeck Can Manage Your Twitter API Usage — This means that the program can delegate how to use your available API calls so that the most important info gets to you as easily as possible. Plus, Tweetdeck now uses OAuth and can request up to 350 API calls an hour, and that is expected to increase soon.

Better Column Management — You can now view Flickr, YouTube and Posterous media within Tweetdeck.

Tweetdeck is free.

Facebook has just started rolling out a new photo uploader, one that the company promises will be faster, easier and more stable than the current one.

In an announcement on Facebook’s blog, the company revealed that the new Facebook uploader is actually a browser plug-in. In order to upload photos, you have to install it.

Once that’s done, though, you will be greeted by a new interface for uploading photos that connects to your computer’s file directory. From Facebook, you can navigate your hard drive and pick out the photos you want. A preview function on the bottom of the uploader makes it simple to pick the right pics out.

Oh, and it has another nifty feature: background uploads. You can navigate away from not only the upload page, but from Facebook itself while uploading photos. A notification will tell you that the uploads are done.

We don’t like installing plug-ins unless we have to, but we can see why Facebook took this approach. Still, this will limit some people from being able to upload, especially those at work with locked-down browsers.

What do you think: Is this a smart move by Facebook or are plug-ins a bad idea? Is it active for you? Let us know in the comments.