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		<title>Downtime Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a little note about the unexpected downtime some of you may have noticed this past week. We have had to move our website to a new host and everything is up and running again for most part.This does mean that if you emailed us or used the contact form we did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacBook Air Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MacBook Air is the latest laptop from Apple, and one that has caused a division of opinion from customers and experts alike. There is a lot of praise for this product and a lot of favorable reviews. There has also been a lot of negative opinion on the forums and blogs around the web. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/macbook-air-review/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 8 to debut as &#34;Standards Compliant&#34; &#8212; Web Designers Rejoice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It would appear that Microsoft had second doubts about their unwillingness to adopt Standards Compliancy in their forth-coming IE8 browser. On their IE Blog the new announcement apparently follows Microsoft&#8217;s new Interoperability Principles;
&#34;We&#8217;ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.&#34;
Wired.com were inclined to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-to-debut-as-standards-compliant-web-designers-rejoice/</link>
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		<title>Iconize — Adding Icons to Textlinks with CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just stumbled on a very interesting project from PoolieStudios called Iconize (which in turn was inspired by this post from Ask the CSS Guy). The concept is simple: CSS code that would add little context sensitive icons next to your normal text links. If the link points to a PDF file, then add a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/iconize-%e2%80%94-adding-icons-to-textlinks-with-css/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Inverted Text Shadow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve started noticing an interesting design change in Apple&#8217;s user interfaces, mainly on their site, but also a lot on the iPhone. The design item is an inverted shadow—that is, a shadow falling above, rather than below the text. Here&#8217;s an example from their website&#8217;s navigation
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		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/apples-inverted-shadow/</link>
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		<title>Pixelshell: #49 in &#8220;100 Best CSS Designs of 2007&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to announce that our Pixelshell site design was voted #49 in &#8220;Top 100 CSS Designs of 2007&#8243; by NerdBusiness.com. You can check out our site among the other 100 designs here. We&#8217;re honored to have been selected and look forward to bringing you more great designs in 2008. Happy New Year!
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		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/pixelshell-picked-49-of-the-100-best-css-designs-of-2007/</link>
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		<title>New Tutorial: Smooth Content Frame in Photoshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re new to web design and wondered how to make your content a little bit more attractive—how to create a simple, yet elegant, frame to put your content in—then I&#8217;ve got a little tutorial for you. This tutorial uses Photoshop to create the image, but I assume no prior experience with it so anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/new-tutorial-smooth-content-frame-in-photoshop/</link>
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		<title>UI = The Killer Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Many new electronics products and software have a bucket-load of new features. They try to incite you to make the purchase by flooding you with their extensive functionality and a million of things they can do. In the end however, the list of the functions would be capped, in some cases cut at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/ui-the-killer-feature/</link>
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		<title>Why Time Machine Works</title>
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Now, I&#8217;m sorry to disappoint you if you thought that I&#8217;d be talking about a real time travel machine, that unfortunately hasn&#8217;t been invented yet as far as I&#8217;m aware—however, I am going to give you my perspective on Apple&#8217;s application called &#8220;Time Machine&#8221;, which was released recently with the Macintosh operating system, OS X [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/why-time-machine-works/</link>
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		<title>Friday Review: OS X Leopard</title>
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Last Friday, Apple has unleashed their latest operating system, OS X Leopard, and from the general reactions and first reviews it appears to have been very well received. I&#8217;ve made the upgrade and would like to now share my own thoughts and experiences I&#8217;ve had with this new system, and whether I would recommend current [...]]]></description>
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