I’ve been looking forward to the new episode of Women’s Murder Club for, what, nearly 4 months now, and boy was it worth the wait! The ladies are back with a BANG- that was the most exciting hour of television I’ve seen in a long time.

If the show isn’t picked up for a second season I will be unbelievably disappointed. Devastated. You hear that ABC?! I need this show!

Tags: ABC, women's+murder+club, angie+harmon, aubrey+dollar, laura+harris, paula+newsome, TV

Thanks for the lesson, Steve Jobs: never be one of the first to buy.

That said, I still love my 4GB iPhone :)

I have an extra little tip that’s also very applicable to those who run blogs: force a page break before the comments.

#comments {page-break-before:always;}

Tags: web+design, css, blogging

• tv-links.co.uk - Lots of current TV Shows, Cartoon, Movies, Documentaries, Anime, Music Videos. Most shows include links to all current episodes of the series
• Side Reel - Fantastic resource and interface, tons of newer TV Shows, organized nicely, movies too!
• Your TV Links - Many older TV Shows, few of the newer ones
• Peekvid - Current and older TV Shows, Movies, many shows only have a links to a few epsiodes rather than the entire season. Nice interface, lacking content compared to some of the others
• alluc.org - Great resource with TV Shows, Movies, etc.
• video.glath.com - Mostly cartoons, few TV Shows. Highlights include Family Guy and The Sopranos
• EpisodeNetwork.com - Movies, movies, and more movies!
• ShowStash.com - 51 shows, mostly older
• Channel King - Streaming television, plenty of channels to choose from like Nickelodeon and ESPN
• Select Video - Search engine, makes finding specific episodes very easy to find
• Stafex.net - Streaming TV channels from all around the world, lots of great Sports channels too, very simple interface

Edited to add…

So far, I’m having the most success with ILoveIM.com. I have been testing their AOL IM section and can send and receive messages with little delay (once the initial contact has been made). My computer-based “buddy” is receiving the message in real time, as soon as I press send in iPhone’s Safari, and I receive their messages on my iPhone roughly 2-15 seconds after they send. Not bad!

This script uses Ajax to enable you to load external pages into a DIV without having to reload the browser or use IFRAMES. If your external pages reference any external .css or .js files for styling, this script can also load and apply them to the page on demand.

This script collapses any DIV on the page and lets users manually toggle its appearance via a smooth “Web 2.0 style” animation. It’s a popular effect on social networking/ comment sites such as Digg. Three distinguishing features of this script are:

1. The ability for the script to work on both DIVs that have an explicit CSS height attribute defined, and without. In the later case, the script will first hide (versus collapse) the DIV until retrieving its true height on page load.
2. A persistence feature that if enabled will remember if a DIV has been expanded, and upon the user’s return to the page within the same browser session, keep it expanded.
3. The duration of the animation is absolute and user configurable, such as 1.5 seconds. This means regardless of the height of the DIV, the script will take 1.5 seconds to finish revealing it. This creates a uniform period before a DIV is revealed regardless of its height.

Have fun sliding content up and down!

Tags: DHTML, scripts, animated+collapsible+div, sliding+div

This is the free online version of Westciv’s self paced course CSS Level 1. You can follow this course by coming back to the site every week: you can even get a reminder when we publish the new section every week. Go here for more info on how the free course system works.

If you can’t make it back every week, or you just want to move ahead at your own pace, all Westciv courses are also available for purchase at very reasonable rates.
Week 1

On this page you’ll find week 1.

* About the course
* Tools you need
* What is CSS?
* Why is CSS important?
* The elements of a style sheet
* Syntax: statements, selectors, properties

Tags: xhtml, html, css, courses, free+courses