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When you’re build­ing and test­ing sites there are a lot of things to con­sider. “God is in the details” and all that. You can save time, heartache and avoid hav­ing angry clients by set­ting up your browser with a few lit­tle tools to help you check some of the basics.

Fire­Bug

For when you absolutely, pos­i­tively have to go into the code your­self and have a dig around. Indis­pens­able lit­tle add-on when trou­bleshoot­ing sites, giv­ing you (the tech-savvy PM) the abil­ity to check the code that builds the site. Also has a handy “Net” tab telling you which files are load­ing (or ever hand­ier, not load­ing).

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They say the busier you are, the less you get done! Novem­ber has proved to be a busy month with loads of announce­ments from the likes of Sam­sung, Apple, Face­book, Sony, Google… the list goes on. This week’s DC is all about pro­duc­tiv­ity (at work and home), so don your specs, and read on.

F-mail

First a Hol­ly­wood block­buster, then the world! Face­book has stepped up to chal­lenge Google and Yahoo with it’s ‘not an email client’ email client. Face­book is giv­ing its 0.5 bil­lion users an ‘@facebook.com’ not-an-email-address address, and launched a sin­gle por­tal for SMS-ing, tweet­ing and email­ing through the Face­book frame­work.

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately – a com­bi­na­tion of a quick jaunt to Corn­wall (to con­duct a thor­ough sur­vey of beaches in the pour­ing rain), pitch­ing for some rather lovely new clients (you know who you are – wel­come aboard) and an ongo­ing moun­tain of work.

In com­mon with many oth­ers, my first morn­ing back was spent delet­ing emails. It’s not like it was all spam – our spam pro­tec­tion is pretty good. It was just stuff for the most part – although stuff with a cou­ple of ‘must read’ mails hid­den in the mid­dle some­where. Deal­ing effec­tively with email (and stuff in gen­eral) is quickly becom­ing a must-have skill (and sadly not one I seem to pos­sess).

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