Daniel Pistelli, the man behind NTCore.com, recently released an extremely useful Windows Vista management tool. If the following applies for you as well you should give it a go [download].

Vista4Experts is kind of a treat for computer experts who don’t want security center notifications, User Account Control dialogs, automatic Windows Defender scannings, automatic update installations (which cause you to reboot your system if you don’t react quickly enough). People who want MSDN (or google) set as default search engine in the Internet Explorer search bar, who want the start menu power button to shut down the system instead of hibernating it, etc. These and many more fixes are included in Vista4Experts. All of these changes can be discarded, enabled or reversed. Vista4Experts is the first expert utility of its kind and works on every platform.

It may reduce the security level of your Vista installation, but if you know what you are doing you will finally escape from all those annoying security alert boxes. Besides other applications probably keep the security (AV, Firewall, etc.). Best of all, it’s FREE (and comes with the standard “avoid lawsuit disclaimer”).

As some of you might have noticed I’ve been a bit slower than usual and not kept my daily post routine. Main reason for this being work on a new client website,  a new theme for WordPress and possibly a few new WordPress plugins.

The client site is done (single info page) and will be featured on my development site as soon as I get the clients approval. The new theme is currently available for preview on the same location.

Please consider it an early alpha release as I need to work heavily with the styling (CSS). However I’m quite pleased with the jQuery Accordion implementation found in the sidebar when browsing by date or category. Also the simple toggle effect when clicking the Archive link in the top menu seams useful (for now).

I would be happy to get some feedback on what you all think, and will release the code if anyone shows interest for the sidebar add-ons.

Fish ‘n Flush is a patented, two-piece aquarium toilet tank, designed by AquaOne Technologies, Inc., an innovator of water-management systems. The aquarium has a 2.2-gallon capacity. When you flush, it looks like all the water is draining out of the tank and the fish are going down, but it’s an optical illusion: the fish are actually safe in an outer aquarium made of high-polished plastic. What you see draining is the toilet water in a separate tank behind the aquarium.

More cool aquariums can be seen here

WallStreetFighter wrote a funny post Thursday named 8 UnEthical Ways To Improve Traffic To Your Blog. This is a must read (on a Sunday).

Some of the pointers would most likely provide massive traffic, but also a massive lawsuit. But if you are connected from one of those countries where Internet laws are still blurry - give it a go…

According to yesterdays announcement on Weblog Tools Collection there will be no more (major) updates from the WordPress development team until March.

The announcement can be read below:

As discussed in the developer mailing list, the next release of WordPress will be in March instead of January because of the holidays and the amount of changes that will take place in the codebase as well as the admin section. The decision was made to consider 2.4 a skipped December release and move straight on to 2.5. The reasons for the change in the schedule include some good things cooking in the oven and the developers do not want this to become a rushed release.

So to sum things up. There will be no 2.4. Instead, we will see 2.5 which is scheduled for release in March. Various official docs and roadmaps will be updated in due course.

I’m not 100% sure if this is a good thing or not, but at least it gives me some time to prepare my next WordPress Theme…

Anyone out there know of any major database changes, please let me know!