A Geek's Point Of View

BeeJive

Mike — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:55:05 +0000

BeeJive is an awesome web based IM client for the iPhone. Works great, looks great, and is really fast. By far the best IM client so far for the iPhone.

Hopefully Apple is listening and will include iChat in the first software update.

The iPhone version can be found here.

Movies.app

Mike — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:28:33 +0000

Movies.app is probably one of the best iPhone applications that I’ve seen so far. Movies.app looks up theaters for a zip code, then once you select a theater it shows the list of movies showing at the theater. Once you select the movie you want to see, it shows the movie details: Length, Genre, Rating, Show Times, plus links to buy tickets, play the trailer, and pull up a map.

It looks and works great on the iPhone. Plus it even adds a little animation which makes it feel more “app like” and less like a web page.

iPhone Windows XP Annoyance

Mike — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:04:54 +0000

Whenever I plug my iPhone into my computer, a dialog box pops up from Windows XP asking me what I would like to do with the photos on the camera I just plugged in.

So every time I plug the phone in I have to cancel out of this dialog box, which I very annoying.

Anybody else having this problem?

Windows Hotkeys

Mike — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:30:51 +0000

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

Twitter IM is Down

Mike — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:03:34 +0000

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.

Google Reader Subscriptions Deleted

Mike — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:30:38 +0000

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.

Firefox Tab Switching Code

Mike — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:27:46 +0000

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.

Movable Type 4 Error

Mike — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:14:44 +0000

I am trying to get Movable Type 4 installed so I can play with it, but I am having some really annoying and weird problems. I keep getting a 500 error when I try to go through the setup.

I’ve tried several things, and my permissions are all correct. It’s really starting to annoy me.

Anyone having similar issues?

Don’t get me wrong I really like WordPress, but I was just wanting to see what MT was like.

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??