I came across a cool program to handle Windows hotkeys called HoeKey. It has a very small footprint which is awesome. I needed it to control iTunes with the keyboard.

It’s pretty technical, but after browsing around I found some examples that worked great. Below is the code I have to tell iTunes Previous, Play/Pause, Next.

~Z=Msg|iTunes|793|0|786432
~X=Msg|iTunes|793|0|917504
~C=Msg|iTunes|793|0|720896

Ever since I signed up for Twitter a few weeks ago, the IM feature has been down. Every time I try to send an IM to Twitter I get this error:

TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.

Twitter, how long is this going to be down??

Update: Twitter is now displaying a notice on their Phone & IM page: “AOL Instant Messenger support is currently on hold. There are issues
blocking its return which we plan on addressing as soon as we can.”

I really enjoy this feature so hopefully they can get it fixed soon.

I just logged into Google reader and all my subscriptions have been deleted. I really hope that this is a temporary issue and Google is working on it.

Anyone else having this problem? I know at least one other person is.

Update: It seems that Google has fixed the problem w/ Google Reader, my subscriptions have returned to normal. Here’s some more info on what happened.

Here is some javascript code that I am using for my keyboard tab switching in Firefox. Note: in order to use this, you must install the keyconfig extension.

Next Tab:
var tab = gBrowser.mCurrentTab; if(tab.nextSibling) { gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex++; } else { gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex = 0; }

Previous Tab:
var tab = gBrowser.mCurrentTab; if(tab.previousSibling) { gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex–; } else { gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex = gBrowser.mTabs.length - 1; }

I had originally gotten some simpler code for tab switching, but I wanted to go back to the first tab if I was trying to go to the next tab but was already at the last tab.

Update: I got past the 500 errors. But now it still does not work. I get this error:

Got an error: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "MT::ObjectDriverFactory" (perhaps you forgot to load "MT::ObjectDriverFactory"?) at lib/MT.pm line 776.

Update 2: I installed MT 4 on a different server and it worked perfectly. My guess is that the host I was trying to install this on is missing some libraries, or is using some older versions that aren’t compatible. Hopefully MT will either fix this bug, or at least be more specific on the requirements. mt-check.cgi does not even finish loading, so I’m not sure exactly what’s missing.

I’ve heard from a few other people having this same error. If anyone else is, send me an email or post a comment and maybe we can try to narrow down the problem.

Update 3: I just tried to the new MT beta 3 and it still is throwing the 500 error. Anybody out there know how to fix this??