http://www.chewie.co.uk Info to Chew on for the masses Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have just been browsing around Digg and noticed that something was a little bit different. It seems that they have updated the comment system on stories into a better format. I personally think it looks a lot better, its more clear and consice and it also allows you to filter ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/social-networking/digg-shows-off-new-look-comment-system/ Good old Google, always helping out the little guy when they can, and as such today see's the realeae of Google Doctype. You would be forgiven in thinking that in their quest for world domination that they have now created their own doctypes to rival the W3 standards, but that ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/google-launch-web-developer-encyclopedia/ Not sure if this still works, but if you want to have a bit of fun/really piss people off then tell them (say it gives their name cool colours or something) to set their name or status (in some cases just get them to type it into the chat window) ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/crash-peoples-msn-messenger/ So i stumbled upon a rather interesting project this morning which allows you to drive a tiny little car around Google Maps using a flash applet. It really is so cool, you use the arrow keys to accelerate and you can drive around. Here is a screenshot of my motor parked ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/drive-a-little-car-around-google-maps/ Thanks Google ShareThis http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/im-a-what/ Real quick post because there isnt a great deal to comment on, but for the first time since 2001, Internet Explorer (ie5.5 + ie6 + ie7) market share has dropped below 80%, whilst Firefox continues to rise. We all know that IE is crap so its nice to see that it's ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/global-ie-use-drops-below-80-for-the-first-time-since-2001/ It's been in the works for a while, but it seems that today was the mass roll out of the Facebook Chat Application, well i say application but it isnt the usual FB app whereby you install it on a canvas page and then it shows up in your profile, ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/social-networking/facebook-chat-launches/ Since i use a MacBook I have been getting a bit annoyed at not being able to test my sites in IE6 or IE7 unless i go home and turn on the pc. Sure i can run IE6 in X11 but its slow and a little buggy, plus IE7 ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/boot-camp-assistant-crashes-during-partition/ With all the shouting that goes about whether Google really do stick to their "Do no evil" slogan its nice to see that the power house is teaming up with the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to utilise the technology it created in filtering copyright material on ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/google-teams-up-with-ncmec/ This is just so awesome it defies belief, some guy called CupBoy has managed to create world 1-1 of the original super mario brothers in Javascript. If that wasnt impressive enough he has also managed to squeeze it all down into an ity bity 14kb javascript file. The sprites are stored ... http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/super-mario-word-1-1-written-in-14kb-javascript/