Anyone who uses the Twitter Notify plug-in for Live Writer will know that it gives you a tinyURL.com url to tweet your link with, but sometimes, tinyURL isn’t what you want to be using, perhaps you prefer is.gd, or you have your own bit.ly account and want to use your own user details. Joe Cheng, when he was on the Writer team, wrote a blog post detailing how to go about changing this. Then, again, today Aaron Bregel, the Test Lead on the Writer team, wrote another post on how to go one step further and use the bit.ly API key.
Now, both of these posts are fine, and give you good instructions on how to change the setting, but it involves a registry change. The registry is not a place people should really be changing stuff by themselves, no matter how good the instructions, someone will screw it up.
So I decided what was needed was a little tweaker utility, so I quickly wrote one:
Enjoy.
SL
[...] you need to add a regkey to your registry. Scott Lovegrove, a Live Writer MVP, has written a tool to modify the regkey for bit.ly or other URL shorteners. I encourage you to grab the tool from his post [...]
Thanks Scott. I added this to the post I made about bit.ly.
[...] was complaining to the lovely Kate on Twitter on Friday and both Scott and Aaron pointed me to the fact that I now have a choice! Lots of choices in [...]
Scott, I have just upgraded my system to win 2007, not by choice, but by crash, and i am trying to resore my blogs from live writer backup, but it is asking me to log in as Admin, I am the admin, what should i do. Thank you for your help.
Kurt
@Night Sweats: Right click the shortcut and choose “Run as administrator”, this should then let you restore.
And Im running from a standard users account with strict limitations, which I think may be the limiting factor, but Im running the cmd as the system I am currently working on.
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