Photoshop TV shows tips and tricks on how to use photoshop either in Flash, or as a MP4 download to watch on your newfangled gizmo of choice. Looks fun, and doesn’t cost anything.

A friend of mine asked for a menu like the Outlook Panel in CSS and JavaScript as a proof of concept. I took on the challenge and quickly put together this example of a DOMscripting powered panel menu . It functions the same way – only one section can be open at a time – and should be rather self-explanatory. For a change I am not using off-left to hide the sections but plain old display block and none inside the script, which has the welcome side effect that you can use it with a keyboard without having to tab through the invisible links!

Features:

• Fully contained unobtrusive JavaScript
• Option to style JavaScript and non-JavaScript menu independently
• Option to have predefined open section

I hope it is helpful for some of you, and I appreciate any feedback / bug issues.

Good news for all who like Commodore 64 games and bad news for office productivity: At c64s.com – classic Commodore 64 games online you can play all the classics you played instead of doing homework in your browser (as Java objects).

As I finally arrived in 2005 when it comes to mobiles (my girlfriend dropping my old one being the main initiator) I found a game for Nokia Smartphones that looks like nothing but is highly addictive and has that “Tetris” simplicity: Roto is a free J2ME game, and asks of you to put all the corners of a floating object on rectangles of the same colour to make the rectangles disappear. Sounds easy, and the first few levels seem ridiculous, but the game shows its teeth later on. You cannot turn the object, you can only accelerate and move it in 4 directions and bounce it off the edges of the screen. It is a fullfy fledged physics simulation and behaves accordingly. Good time waster for a while.

Microsoft (no, I will not link this one) have shipped a beta of Internet Explorer 7 . It looks quite funky and requires XP SP2 to run. The catch is that it actually replaces your old MSIE6 (hey we all want that), which can be a real issue for testing. You can install the MSIE6 standalone alongside, but allegedly this might cause problems.

Therefore it might be best to install the MSIE 7 standalone version instead.

As for taking the new shiny MSIE for a ride, there is a test case collection going on at the CSS discuss wiki.

Digital Web just released the first part of a new two part article of mine entitled Seven Accessibility Mistakes .
In it I am listing mistakes I have encountered in the past (and done some of them) and give tips how to avoid them in the future.

Some of these tips might be utopic for you to achieve, but I for one am up for the challenge.