I have been using my Mac now for quite a while and I have used one at various times throughout my computer beginnings. One thing really irks me though and that is moving the focus on buttons on dialog screens with the keyboard.

On Windows its simple and intuitive to do simply press tab and you can cycle through the buttons.  On a Mac its needlessly complicated on what is generally a vastly more intuitive operating system than Windows. It gets even worse if you own one of the new aluminium keyboards as you have to add the fn function key into the equation.

I have been thinking lately of creating a photoblog, well not really a full blog but more of an experiment.  There are a few reasons for these thoughts creeping into my head, the first one being; I enjoy building websites so I want to build another one. Although I do this all day at work, there is nothing more satisfying than being able to create something that is specifically for you and also being able to use the latest technologies on it.

I have been meaning to write a post for a while about definition lists but have just not got round to it. Instead of covering just definition lists though, I thought I would make it a little more specific and talk about a very good use for them, styling forms.

It was not that long ago that I hadn’t even heard of a definition list, now this is one of the most versatile tools in the tool box that I use daily.  Definition lists are good for a variety of uses, including Faq’s, forms, images with descriptions or replacing unordered lists for drop down menus to name but a few.

A quick tip for any Photoshop users out there that I only discovered quite recently.  If you are a web designer or developer you fairly regularly wish to get colour values from photos or other websites on the internet. This can sometimes be a pain and I have many times found myself taking a screen shot of a webpage, pasting it into Photoshop and using the colour picker to get the values I was looking for.

There is a little known feature in Photoshop CS3 (it may be in other versions) where you can select colours from outside the document window. To do this is pretty simple....