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With new Google Reader Play: https://www.google.com/reader/play you can browse a slideshow of recommended feed items tailored to your Google reader profile in a slideshow format.

Very slick and easy to use give it a try for yourself!

I don't know if this is just my account, but from the point that Google Buzz got integrated with my Gmail Account (6 days ago or so) Gmail hadn't collected any email from the main pop accounts I have it setup to retrieve from.

I've just forced a collection now and hopefully it'll all work going forwards, but I wonder if anyone else out there reading my blog has seen something similar...

http://spoon.net/browsers

Nuff said...

Actually while I'm on the topic (mainly of IE being an idiot)

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

In addition, for up to date browser usage stats (and in theory the most correct stats):

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

They guys who produce TinyMCE suggest, when initialising the editor, that you set the content_css parameter to be the url to your site’s CSS, so that the content you type into the text area is styled in the same way as the rest of your site.

This is a great idea and works very well, but a lot of CSS layouts make use of various text positioning options which don’t really apply when translated to a wysiwyg editor, for example making the default alignment centred with no padding.

Thankfully you can get around all of this quite easily and add further custom styling to your editor’s textarea by adding the .mceContentBody style to the end of your site’s CSS file and specifying any further layout options in that.

For example the following css tells the editor in my app to always ensure the text alignment is left justified by default and give a 10 pixel padding to the textarea the editor’s being applied to so that the text that will be input by the user doesn’t squash up against any particular border of the text area itself:

.mceContentBody {
text-align: left;
padding: 10px;
}

Nice and simple really but not so easy to find quickly when searching on Google so I hope this helps someone else out there too!

If you use an unsigned MySQL int to count seconds you can count up to roughly 136 years before the field is full

On another note I also got my Google Wave invite today, so if anyone wants to connect just add chrisjohndean@googlewave.com to your list!