Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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What's with all the kittens? -Discovering the Easter Eggs in www.wdyl.com

Google recently released 'What do you love' .com. It is a site that pulls together a whole raft of services and themes their content based on your search criteria. It performs a book search, video search and a whole load more, you can give it a try here: www.wdyl.com

In typical Google fashion they have not left the site in a merely 'working' state, they have added a whole load of Easter Eggs (hidden features). This article explores some of them and how they work.

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Three simple team-working rules

There are three relatively simple team working rules that I stick to within the office, and if you are in a team with me I expect you to adhere to them too.

These aren't just rules I just get team members to use, I do them myself as well, and I believe they make a massive difference to a team's ability to work well together as a cohesive unit.

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IE9 .Woff font browser support test

I started using Font Squirrel a while ago to embed custom font faces into websites. After upgrading to Windows 7 I encountered a heavily documented issue about IE 9 and @font faces.

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FaceBook expands your profile with Pregnancy options

Yup, you read it right. FaceBook adds an option to your 'Friends and Family' settings that allow you setup a new family member as an expected child. You can also add their Due Date.

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