Archive for October 30th, 2007

Yes folks, a quick and easy theme generator for WordPress. It is online (no downloading) and lets you preview your changes instantly.

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/ so far is very easy to use and seems to be heading in the right direction as far as one size fits all theme generators. Look for some changes to BA in the future, a completely customized theme from the Theme Generator.

Parallels Desktop For Mac

This is a GREAT product. I am a PC guy, a Windows guy, and I got the certifications to prove it. Back in the day when the Mac IIs were all the rage across university campuses, I worked on them in desktop publishing. The GUI interface, then a relatively new phenomena on the desktop PC, was vastly superior on the MAC compared to the MS-DOS 5.1 and Windows add ons.

But as the PC and Windows encroached more and more into the business field and M$ swallowed up more and more of the competition I left the Apple world to the Apple folk.

Today, with OSX running on Intel boxes and many cross over applications hitting the scene I got to install and run Parallels for Desktops and I love it. Essentially, it is a virtual Windows XP OS running as a separate process on a Mac.

It runs XP better than my Dell does! I still have to perform MS updates and install antivirus protection just like on a Dell box, but I can still have a fully functional Mac OSX running and any number of virtual XPs that my hardware will allow.

In a college environment where the official university OS is Windows the Mac user now has a powerful tool to allow them to access all of the software the university negotiates special discounts yet still retain the use of the powerful Mac platform.

A rare Win/Win in the PC vs. Mac arena.