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One of our readers, Christopher Honiball (see his Flickr stream here) sent in this set of tips on what to do when you’re approached on Flickr to sell an image. The image to the right is one he was recently asked to sell.

Several members on the DPS forum have been approached by an official asking for permission to use their picture on their website/catalog/book/etc.

"I was looking around for a good CSS cheat sheet yesterday and Ⅰ thought OK why do Ⅰ have to open and close this .pdf file every time why don’t ⅰ just put it as a wallpaper on one of my monitors…"

"Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant."

"Better Web Readability Project – CSS Library

The main purpose of this project is to contribute to better reading experience on the screen by using CSS typography library.

All about this solution read it here.
Main features:

* 16px default main text size
* Partial 26px baseline grid
* Serif for Heading, sans-serif for the paragraphs
* Lower color text contrast
* Intensified paragraph division (new line + indent)
* Bigger leading (line-height) 1.625"

"This utility was developed as part of Intervals to deal with the problems posed by certain email clients (namely Outlook 2007 and Google Gmail) when it comes to the way they handle styling contained in HTML emails. As many web developers and designers already know, certain email clients are notorious for their lack of CSS support. While attempts are being made to develop common email standards, implementation is still a ways off.

The primary problem with uncooperative email clients is that most tend to only regard inline CSS, discarding all ‹style› elements and links to stylesheets in ‹link› elements. Emogrifier solves this problem by converting CSS styles into inline style attributes in your HTML code."

"Less is Leaner css. Less extends css by adding: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.

Less uses existing css syntax. This means you can migrate your current .css files to .less in seconds, with virtually no learning curve.

The best way to explain Less is to show you some code, so please go ahead and check out the examples below:"

"Using Inline Styler from your own applications

A rudimentary API is available for Inline Styler, so you can convert HTML in your own apps.

By POSTing requests to http://inlinestyler.torchboxapps.com/styler/convert/you can receive a plain-text response containing your converted HTML.

POST variables are:

* returnraw (required): Any value. This is vital as it ensures the returned reponse contains just your converted HTML, not the full page from the web-interface version.
* source (optional): HTML text. Your raw HTML to be converted
* source_url (optional): Valid URL. To be used instead of source. Pass a valid URL at which your source can be found

And remember: a server is for life, not just for christmas – please be kind to it and use this API respectfully"

"Video: An Introduction to CSScaffold

I'm working on my own spin on CSS frameworks, except that mine is a little bit different. It requires PHP to make CSS better, rather then relying on the bad system that we have to work with.

I've been working on my own type of CSS framework lately. When Shaun Inman released the update to the Server-Side CSS Processor last year, Ⅰ jumped on the bandwagon and made a layout plugin for it, which then turned into a Coda Plugin. After toying with each of these methods, Ⅰ decided that Cacheer was the way to go."

"DtCSS is a PHP script that preprocesses your CSS file. It speeds up CSS coding by extending the features to CSS. Such as nested selectors, color mixing and more. DtCSS reads the CSS file with special syntax written for DtCSS, and outputs the standard CSS. It also comes with a smart caching system."

Quick facts:

* CHDK is free software – CHDK released under the GPL, allowing you to use it for free, and also create your own modifications.
* CHDK is a firmware ADDON – CHDK does not replace the original firmware, and does not make any permanent changes to the camera. Instead, it is loaded from the SD card, either at startup or using the built in menu.
* CHDK – stands for Canon Hack Development Kit;
* CHDK is experimental and comes with no warranty – Be sure to read the FAQ for discussion of possible risks and impact on your Canon warranty coverage.