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Pandora Desktop Hotkeys Enhanced

I noted an issue with my original Pandora Desktop Hotkey script in that the embedded Flash control in the Pandora Desktop app sometimes has a different "control" name. This change in name would _sometimes_ make the script unable to send keys to the control. Here's an updated script that tries to work around this issue by simply sending keys to either of the possible names for that embedded control. Enjoy! DetectHiddenWindows, On ; Pandora Controls ;Ctrl-Win-Alt-Right Arrow ^#!Right:: IfWinExist, ahk_class ApolloRuntimeContentWindow ControlSend, WebPluginView1, {RIGHT} ; Next ControlSend, WebPluginView2, {RIGHT} ; Next return ;Ctrl-Win-Alt-Up Arrow ^#!Up:: IfWinExist, ahk_class ApolloRuntimeContentWindow ControlSend, WebPluginView1, {UP} ; Volume Up ControlSend, WebPluginView2, {UP} ; Volume Up return ;Ctrl-Win-Alt-Shift-Up Arrow ^#!+Up:: IfWinExist, ahk_class ApolloRuntimeContentWindow ControlSend, WebPluginView1, {SHIFT}{UP} ; Volume Max ControlSend, WebPluginView2,

Completely Unscientific Test of Chrome 2.0 Beta with Bubblemark

So, I had to rush out and get the Google Chrome 2.0 Beta and try it out. I was already running Chrome 1.0, but the install for Chrome 2.0 installed with no hitch, asked me to restart the browser, and then I see that all my settings/bookmarks migrated forward with no problems. After playing around with some the new features I had to find out how Chrome's DHTML Rendering performance stood up to Flash/Silverlight/JavaFX. Bubblemark is a standard benchmark for comparing these different technologies. It simply tries to render a certain number of images (or vectors in some cases) and animate them. I fired it up and collected some numbers. Here are the results of my _totally_ unscientific test: Browser + Tech Bubble Count FPS Silverlight 2.0 (CLR) on Chrome 2.0 16 283 128 44 Flash (Flex) with cacheAsBitmap on Chrome 2.0 16 115 128 46 Java (Swing, optimized) on Chrome 2.0 16 200.0 128 199.7 Java (LWJGL) on Chrome 2.0 16 1435 128 658 JavaFX 1.0 (at Osvaldo Doederlein blog) on Ch