I’ve made it part of my Friday routine at the office to create a backup of my Outlook Express profile. This backup includes ALL my emails, folders and contacts. However it doesn’t include the forwarding rules, but I don’t consider them invaluable as they are just rules not personal data.

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Yahoo says they are a better service than Google. They are boasting what Google is lacking compared to Yahoo and have facts behind such claims.

Poor usability is the main reason behind the limited adoption of Google’s services such as Gmail and Google Talk, according to Jeff Bonforte, senior director of real-time communications at Yahoo.

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Once again I forgot about one of the (many) bugs in Internet Explorer while I was completing the style sheet for a new website to one of my clients. In order to present the menus I’m using the List feature in HTML, and it all looked fine in every browser except IE.

For some reason IE decides by default to add a huge space between each list element which breaks up the design to say the least. The “fix” however is simple, but as this post reflects its easy to forget about it. All you need to do is add the following in your CSS:

* html ul li a { height: 100%; }

Or as follows if you have assigned class names for the link tag A and placed it inside one of your DIV tags:

* html div#someID ul li a.someClass { height: 100%; }

Hope this post proves helpful to anyone else who suffers from Goldfish Memory from time to time…

Just after Christmas I received a package from my brother (sent well before I should point out) containing a nifty little 8 in 1 card reader with a USB connection and a 2 Gb SD memory card. Together they’ve replaced my need for a dongle as I now can switch the SD card from my camera to my “dongle” whenever I feel like it.