Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Do you blog?

Do you use Windows Live Writer? 

Did you install the Twitter Notify Plug-in? 

Does it annoy you that you have to use TinyURL.com as your shortener?

• GOOD NEWS: 
  Turns out some guys out there figured out how to use OTHER shortening services.
• BAD NEWS: 
  It requires hacking the registry, which for most technophobic bloggers is akin to an unnatural act.
• GOOD NEWS: 
  Someone wrote a tool to make the registry edit an automated process i.e. safe too.

In fact, this post will be the first attempt for me to use this new Bit.ly mod:

• INSTRUCTIOONS:  Using bit.ly with The Twitter Notify plug-in for Live Writer
  http://livewriterblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/using-bit-ly-with-the-twitter-notify-plug-in-for-live-writer/
• TOOL:  Twitter Notify Mod Tool  (Because no one should be hacking the registry)
  http://dev.scottisafool.co.uk/2010/07/02/twitter-notify-because-no-one-should-be-hacking-the-registry/

(Epilogue:  SICKNESS!  It worked on the first try!  Me = Happy!)