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We’ve all seen dropdown / popup menu lists on websites before, and generally they’re extremely useful because they save space, but offer extra functionality. Sometimes, though they’re tricky to implement. I remember doing a image-only popout menu for the Lonsdale Views, who offer accommodation in Point Lonsdale and it was more difficult than expected - First, there was Internet Explorer’s lack of support for “:hover” and then there was Internet Explorer’s z-index issue. Now that I’ve got a blog, I thought I’d publish a how-to guide for valid, accessible semantic HTML and CSS dropdown menus… (more…)

While making the YouTube Music in MySpace tool, I coudln’t find a function that reads an input URL then makes an array with the GET variable names and values. I needed this to get the video id from the YouTube video URL - so I made it, and now I’m sharing it. (more…)

Within a week of the US locking foreigners out of its online gambling market, the three biggest search companies - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft - have all decided to settle with the US Goverment on cases regarding the promotion of online gambling, which is illegal in the US. The total amount forfeited was $31 million - much of which was in the form of advertising credit. (more…)

After being asked a number of times how to get YouTube music on peoples’ MySpace profile, I made a tool that generates the code to:

• Put music from a YouTube video into your MySpace profile, bulletin, blog, comment or anywhere else you can post HTML.
  

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The United States Government has made agreements with the European Union, the Japanese Government and the Canadian government to keep it’s online gambling market exclusive to US companies. The US is still in negotiations with other online gambling company hubs such as India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica. (more…)

The Norwegian company behind the web browser Opera - a long-time competitor of Internet Explorer, has filed a complaint to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s operating system Windows and it’s bias towards the Internet Explorer browser, which fails to properly follow the accepted web standards. (more…)

Facebook announced that the Facebook application platform would be opened to all social networks, after Bebo announced support for Facebook’s very successful application platform. Unfortunately for Google, this the biggest threat to their open social network platform, OpenSocial. (more…)

Put in your text, choose MySpace Comment Color, MySpace Comment Font and MySpace Comment Size, click "Change to HTML" and we will style it and convert it into HTML for you

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Have you ever seen comments with different colors (colours) and fonts left on your or somebody else’s profile in MySpace? Maybe you’d like to be able to change your comment color, too… If you do, it’s easy. All you need is a little bit of HTML code, and I’ll tell you how to do it

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