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FYI Titbit and Tidbit are both acceptable:
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  • What resolution should I design to?

    Personally I try to use 960 for the width. the argument for using 960 was it’s divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 16 which means your grid options are endless, and of course it fits within the most popular 1024 width. HOWEVER With the soon to be released I-Phone 4 working on an incredible 960 by 640 pixel maybe it is time to look at adjusting this slightly to accommodate the latest IPhone. 50 million I-Phones have been sold since it's release in 2007 so the market for the new version is looking good. Now of course people will say you should be building to work on multiple platforms with varying resolutions and to them I say try the real world! Most graphic designers open up a default PSD file that is set to around 960, this is what they see and what the client sees to sign off. So a slight decrease to fit the frame of the IPhone will mean a horizontal IPhone 4 will be able to display your website in the original look with no horizontal scroll bars which for 20 pixels is just annoying. I would be interested to know your thoughts...

  • The ultimate excel cheat sheet

    I use excel all the time and it can be irritating trying to remember that nice little trick you used 3 years ago. This page has a great breakdown of the most common and some not so common. Excel Cheat Sheet

  • JQuery - Simple IE 6 Detection

    A simple way to detect whether the web browser you are using is IE 6, this way allows any version of IE 6 to be picked up. I'm sure there is a clearer way to do this so please feel free to improve but this certainly works. $(document).ready(function() { ie6catch = $.browser.msie + $.browser.version; if (ie6catch.indexOf("true6") == -1) { alert("This is not Internet Explorer 6"); } });

  • How to get the RSS feed for Google Buzz

    I needed this for my Comments Page and at the minute the feed appears to be formatted differently to other RSS feeds. This is due to them not offering a JSON format yet. There is a great JQuery solution for this the Google Buzz Widget. They say: This is a jQuery widget for the brand new social network -Google Buzz- that you can embed anywhere to integrate your buzz stream into your page. However if you want to get your Google Buzz XML Feed follow these easy steps:

    • Use Firefox
    • Visit the profile page of the person so in my case... Tristan Botly's Google Profile
    • On the right of the address bar you should see the familiar orange RSS icon, click that to load up the xml and copy the feed

  • Wordpress plugin to list a post category on a page / post

    Very handy if like me you are using Wordpress as a content management system for those page hungry clients: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/ FYI this post is being displayed in the 'Tit bits' section thanks to this plugin.

Buzz it!
  • Tristan - first of all, nice site, and great idea on the dashboard pages widget for CMS users. I've got it bookmarked for a site I'm going to be building in the near future.

    Dictionary.com may say that both "titbit" and "tidbit" are acceptable... but only one of them will make most native English speakers visiting your site snicker to themselves, or perhaps be momentarily scandalized.

    Is that the reaction you want for a page that is supposed to be about little pieces of useful tech info? My guess is that it's not.

    Just my 2 cents, trying to be helpful. It's your site, so you'll name the pages whatever you like.

    Cheers
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