AnoopGeorge.com

I have always envied the thin mac keyboards and I finally got me one.  Couple of customizations are very useful when using it with a PC.  Alt and Windows key are in the wrong order as you are used to on a windows keyboard.  So here is how i did it…

Introducing AutoHotKey

AutoHotKey is freeware software for Windows that lets you create easy-to-write scripts that define alternate key mappings in Windows. You can do the same by hacking the Windows registry yourself - but that’s just plain silly.

The script

After you’ve installed AutoHotKey, you can use the below script and run it. This will load a set of pre-defined rules that will make your Apple keyboard operate like a Windows one.

Here’s the rules I’m using:

; Swap Windows (Command) and Alt keys
; These button locations are reversed on Mac keyboards
LAlt::LWin
LWin::LAlt

To have this script run every time Windows boots up, save it in your Startup folder (Start -> All Applications -> Startup).

If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to Christopher…

Because running IIS and Apache really isn’t feasible, one needs to be able to install PHP into IIS. If you have tried before or searched for how, you will notice many different ways, and a lot of problems with doing so. I’ve tried several times and gotten the same problem, but finally fixed it and got PHP working under IIS. Now I am going to share it.

more