I found an excellent site where you can interactively select a color and brightness using your mouse, and get the 6-digit HTML code for the color:
OReilly DIYincite's Blog
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Excellent site for selecting HTML colors
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MySpace Dispute with Photobucket
I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, representing the AOL Developer Community. While researching materials related to the Expo on the Web, I came across this April 11, 2007 blog post on Pete Cashmore's Mashable.com blog:
Photobucket vs MySpace: Potentially Explosive Facts
I had no idea there was an ongoing dispute between MySpace and Photobucket.
Here's an excerpt from Pete's post:
for those who are unaware of the news - Photobucket is reporting on its blog that MySpace has blocked the embedding of Photobucket videos. As of noon today, slideshows and images can be embedded.
Photobucket's Achilles heel, which we emphasized last week when they became suspiciously communicative with the press (indicating that they're trying to sell the site), is that relations between MySpace and Photobucket have always been poor. The hate between the two companies is mutual, but Photobucket has more to lose, and should be sucking up to its unpredictable master.
Of course, things may have changed since April 11. But, knowing that these two have declared war on each other is certainly surprising to me. They seem like a great match... -
Add MyBlogLog to Your MySpace Profile
Want to know some of the people who are visiting your MySpace profile? MyBlogLog.com offers a widget for MySpace that lets you see which other MyBlogLog registered users have visited your MySpace blog. Look at the "Recent Readers" section at the top of my "General" interests section for an example.
To have this on your own MySpace profile, you need to register yourself at MyBlogLog.com and also identify your MySpace blog. Then, on your "My Home" tab, you'll see a "Get Widgets" button beneath your blog image. Click the "Get Widgets" button and you'll be provided with code you can paste into your MySpace profile.
Once it's in place, whenever a MyBlogLog member visits your site, their picture and a link will be displayed in your MyBlogLog "Recent Readers" widget.
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Hide Your Top Friends, but Have "View Friends" Link
My friend Maral didn't want her Top Friends section to be visible, but still wanted a "View All Friends" link. "Is there a way to do that?" she asked
Yes, there is. To do this we'll use the MySpaceSupport.com "Hide only your friends" code, and add a custom "View All Friends" link.
First, make sure you know your own FriendID. If you don't know this, you can hover your mouse over your "View all friends" link. Look at the bottom of your browser to see the link URL. Your FriendID is the number that appears after "friendID=".
Now edit your profile. In the bottom "Who I'd Like to Meet" enter the following (we'll pretend that your friendID is 987654321):
<a href="http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=987654321" >View my friends< /a >
<style type="text/css" >
td.text td.text table table table, td.text td.text table br, td.text td.text table .orangetext15, td.text td.text .redlink, td.text td.text span.btext {display:none;}
td.text td.text table {background-color:transparent;}
td.text td.text table td, td.text td.text table {height:0;padding:0;border:0;}
td.text td.text table table td {padding:3;}
td.text td.text table table br {display:inline;}
</style >
Save your changes, and you should no longer see your Top Friends, but there should be a "View my friends" link just above your comments.