Nothing to post today because I've been pondering deep philosophical questions:
Suppose Han wants to marry Leia. Suppose Han told Leia that he wanted to marry her. Suppose Leia went back in time and told Padmé that Han wanted to marry her.
Who's the first person to know that Han wants to marry Leia? Is it Han, Leia, or Padmé?
I updated to iTunes 7 this morning to find that the user interface got even better than before. Take a look:
The website's going to be down shortly as I upgrade my blogging software.
There are several perfectly legitimate reasons for why you might want to copy files from your iPod. It could be for backup. Or it could be that you want to be able to listen to music at work even if you forget your iPod at home. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn't let you copy the files from your iPod to your local computer (which is, in my opinion, perfectly ridiculous -- you don't know how many times I ranted at an otherwise good application for exactly this reason).
Enter YamiPod Yamipod is a free iPod manager for Mac OS X or Linux or Windows. It doesn't even require an installation (on Windows, at least); it runs straight out of the box.
Life-saving keyboard shortcuts that will make your life better now that you know them. Windows-only. If you're a Mac user, go away. 1. ALT + SPACE + N = Minimizes the currently active window. 2. WINDOWS + M = Minimizes all windows. Or, you can also use WINDOWS + D to minimize/restore all windows. 3. ALT + PRINT SCREEN = Screenshot of the current window. ( <— Woohoo! ) 4. CTRL + TAB = Switches between windows in the current application. 5. CTRL + F6 = Same as above, except that the above sequence acts like an ALT+TAB for the application whereas this one just goes to the next active window. 6. WINDOWS + E = Opens Windows Explorer. 7. WINDOWS + L = Locks the computer. 8. WINDOWS + BREAK = Opens System Properties. 9. WINDOWS + CTRL + F = Opens computer search. 10. WINDOWS + R = Opens run.
There are also the well-known ( one hopes ) CTRL+C (copy), CTRL+V (paste), CTRL + X (CUT), CTRL+W (close active window), ALT+F4(close active application) that I couldn't possibly live without.
Read more at Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
From Deviantart.
Wordpress Templated is, as you might have guessed from the screenshot, a little utility written to make your life better by making theme-creation easier.
For example, if you are anything like me, you can never remember the doctype specification for — wait for it — any doctype. Well, now you don't have to: simply type in "{Doctype type="Xhtml 1.0 Strict"}", click a button, and sit back and watch as you get the doctype url back. On second thought, don't sit back, because you'll surely get frustrated at having to come right back to an upright position. ;-)
I'm working on a side project that makes creating Wordpress themes easier and therefore makes me happier. It's almost ready, but while I procrastinate on putting the finishing touches on the application, let's talk about seeing your command prompt in a completely different light font. Lucida Console is an okay font, but the thing is there are better fonts out there. Turns out that it's really easy to change the default font of the command prompt; though you might get a bad case of jitters at touching the registry. ;-)
Go to Start > Run and type in regedit. This opens up the registery editor. Before doing any changes, we'll be sane and backup our registery. Go to File > Export and give your registery backup an appropriate name. Hopefully, we won't have to use it.
Once you're done backuping the registery, navigate to:
HKLM Software Microsoft WindowsNT CurrentVersion Console TrueTypeFont
Where HKLM = "HKEYLOCALMACHINE."
Right-click on the right pane and select New > String Value. Give the new key the name: "00" (or "000" if you already have a "00," and so on...). Microsoft says:
The name needs to be incrimented with "0" for each additional font.
Right-click on your newly-created key and select "Modify". Type in the name of the font you want in the "Value data" box. So for example, if you want the Consolas font, type in "Consolas" (without the quotation marks, of course).
Read the aforementioned Microsoft article on what criteria your fonts should satisfy.
Hopefully, you were able to boot up without a problem. Go to the command prompt. Right-click on the title bar and select "Defaults". Go to the "Font" tab. Select your new font in the "Font" section and set the size appropriately. :D
Right-click on the title bar and select "Properties" instead of "Defaults". Set the font to whatever and click OK. You'll be asked whether you want to set it for the current window only or save it for all future windows with the same title.
