Netbeans customizations

Want to customize your netbeans foreground and background colors?  Go to Tools->Options->Fonts & Colors.

However, there are some annoyances.

1. Apparently, if you inherit the caret color, it will not look right.  You have to specify it explicitly. [1]

2. To turn off the annoying "Mark Occurrences", in the Options window, go to Fonts & Colors->Syntax->Language->Java->Mark Occurrences and set the color to be your background color. [2]