software

http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

The color schemer is an online utility, that besides generating a color scheme for your site, allows you to input a color and lighten or darken it. What a great utility!

And one of the more robust color schema generators is colorpicker. The color sliders and export options make it easy to use and quite flexible.

I've also started using the one at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html. It shows you want the colors would look like for a person with color blindness.

Browse all you want on the ATI web site, and you still won't find drivers for the ATI 128 Rage Ultra 32MB video card. Why? Beats me. I needed them for a Dell Dimension 4500 I inherited. And rather then making you engage in unspeakable actions just to acquire some drivers, you can download the file from this site. This driver only works with windows 2000. Windows XP users can find the the drivers they need at the Dell support site.

ATi_Rage_128_Ultra_win2k.zip (7.7MB)

I was disappointed to find that after installing 7-Zip, you can't automatically decompress an archive by double-clicking on it. Also, the archived files maintain the generic unknown file format icons which is ugly.

It seems the only way to extract an archive by default is to right-click on the file and choose one of the many context-sensitive options 7-zip creates upon installation.

My Double-Click Hack

Here is what i did to get a double-click uncompress of *.zip files using 7-zip.

1. Open up Folder Options via Control Panel.
2. Click on the File Types tab and look for a ZIP entry in the Extensions column. If you see it, you can select it and edit it or delete it and start over. If it doesn't exist, click the New button and enter zip for the extension.
5. Click the Advanced button and set the icon path to the location of your zip.dll file. Then create a new action named open and the command:

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zg.exe" x "%1"

See the screenshot below for details.