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Here are the chords for one of my favourite Kinks songs:
Am                                          C    G
There’s a crack up in the ceiling
Dm                                      F    Am
And the kitchen sink is leaking
Am                                      C   G
Out of work [...]

I was using Dreamweaver today as I do every day and after going through adding lots of paragraph tags manually I figured there should be a shortcut to enclose text in a <p> tag. I knew of quite a few already such as Ctrl + B to put content in a <strong> tag and Ctrl [...]

jGrowl is a nifty little jQuery library that creates unobtrusive messages in the browser. It works in a similar way to Growl on Mac OS X.
It enables you to create great looking notifications from your website without it getting in the way. There are different styled examples including the iPhone notifications design. You can set [...]

Kuler is a new piece of software from Adobe. It allows you to create colour themes or view ones that have already been created by the Kuler community.
It is free to use online and can also be integrated into your usual Adobe design software (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Firework and Flash). Kuler is also available for [...]

I had a problem on a site whereby the forms were designed so that the labels were essentially inside the text inputs. I found this looked nicer as it was less all over the place and the information of what needed to be entered in the field (e.g. email address) was easy to make out. [...]

It’s the little things on sites that often make you want to return. I am a massive fan of sites that feel light and free. Where when you click on things, it does things you don’t always expect or aren’t programmed in your mind to accept will happen. Things where you think “That’s a nice [...]

For a long time I have been bothered by the fact that to getting a nice transparent effect on PNGs working in IE6 doesn’t work. It leaves a nasty grey background to the image where in Firefox you would see through to the background.
Recently after a quick search around, I found a solution to all [...]

Chimpanzee riding on a Segway!

Taking a screenshot of your iPhone is one of the many nice little features that has been built into the 2.0 firmware update.
It can be useful for capturing something you need for later or in my case I have used it for taking a great quality photo of my iPhone that I uploaded to show [...]

We have all seen favicons grow in use so much in the last few years. Even animated favicons are being used more and more. But while using my iPhone today, I noticed that you can save a bookmark of a website from Safari to your home screen. That’s pretty cool, but then I noticed there [...]