I came across this one this week.  Did you know there are a few hidden themes built-in to Windows 7?  They’re in a hidden directory, so you’ll have to type their path directly or use search with the option to location hidden files or folders. If you navigate to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT you’ll find several different directories.  Inside of each of those folders is a directory called “Theme”.  If you open that folder, you’ll see a .theme file which you can double-click to activate the theme.  My favorite is the UK theme.

Since the release of Parallels 5 I have been a huge fan.  Previous to that, I really liked VMware Fusion as the product was much more mature and seemed more stable.  I really had no means to measure performance other than to gauge it by my perception over regular use. Earlier this week, VMware announced their VMware Fusion 3.1 beta, which I had to run out and try.  I like to keep tabs on both of these products and am always curious when either of them releases an update. That being said, I downloaded the beta ad built up a new Windows 7 virtual machine, installed the machine additions and played around a little bit. In the past I’ve done things like measure the boot time for the operating system on each product and in most cases Parallels topped Fusion.  Especially after Parallels released version 5, the gap between those…

I was working on making some adjustments to a new theme in WordPress tonight and was looking for a way to check to see if a excerpt had been specified for a particular post. When I am creating posts with code snippets in them, I really don’t want all the inline code to show in the excerpt of the post, instead, it should all be rendered when the post is opened. Seeing as I am fairly new to PHP, I had to do some searching so I wasn’t able to craft a solution easily myself. I found just what I was looking for over at juliaholland.org.

Using Windows PowerShell and the Compellent Storage Center Command Set for PowerShell, I have created a simple script that performs searches for server and volume objects providing results of each in addition to their related mappings. This can be helpful if you have multiple levels of server or volume folders.

I was working on a project for my father-in-law where he wanted to distribute his yearly catalog via CD instead of the traditional printed method. I wanted to design a CD image that would work on both Windows and Mac.  I was able to solve the PC side of it pretty quickly, but needed some guidance on creating a DMG on the Mac.  They can get pretty fancy. My wife designed the background art for the DMG when it is opened and with some guidance from a few different sites, I was on my way. Peter Ahe’s Blog was helpful in getting me going on the right direction and understanding what was required to get the disk image installer created. Some other good resources: How to Create a Hybrid CD on the Mac http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/disk006.htm How to Create a Custom DMG Installer http://www.ploem.be/blog/?page_id=26