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I’ve just found a handy free tool for managing partitions really easily in Windows 7.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

I’d used the built in partition manager in the Windows 7 Disk Management tools to shrink my primary volume and make the second drive, but then I realised I’d made it too big and needed a couple of extra gig added back onto my C drive. The only way I could see to do that using Windows would have been to copy all the files from D to C, delete D, expand C and create a new D in the remaining space! :(

Partition Wizard 5 let me just shrink D, move D along into the blank space and then expand C. The interface is very much like that of good ol’ Powerquest’s Partition Magic which makes it very easy to get comfortable with.

The home edition of the software is completely free, it works with Windows 7 64-bit, and it took about 2 and a half mintues finish the job! :)

(By the way, I’m not at all affiliated with this software or it’s author, I just found it on Google and thought it was really good! ;))

If you’ve ever had to design/build HTML emails for work or fun or whatever, you might have run into a bit of an issue getting your email to display consistently in the multitude of email clients out there. I tend to just test my emails in Gmail, Outlook, Windows Live Hotmail and occasionally Mac Mail.

I used to only test in Windows Live Hotmail using IE as I was resigned to the fact that it never worked properly in Firefox – until now! I finally got hassled into finding a solution for the only issue we had left – a 3 or 4 pixel gap appearing in between all the images.

It turns out the problem is the way the browsers in quirks and standards mode align images to the text baseline – the 3 or 4 pixel gap is there to allow room for the descenders of lowecase letters like “p” and “y” – even if there are no letters in the <td> with the <img> in it.

There are 2 things you can do to resolve the issue – force all the images to be aligned to the bottom of the <td> rather than the default (text baseline):

<img src="something.gif" alt="..." style="vertical-align: bottom;" />

Or you can take the issue out of the rendering engines hands and fool it by making all the images block-level rather than inline:

<img src="something.gif" alt="..." style="display: block;" />

I prefer the second option, but the first one should work fine too! ;)

I’ve found a handy little plugin for Photoshop that lets you save files out in the .ICO format – handy for making favicons for your website!

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Download the “ICO (Windows Icon) Format” in Mac or Windows format, unzip and copy the “ICOFormat.8bi” file into your “File Formats” plugin folder located in “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\File Formats”. If you have Photoshop open, save your work, close it and start it again.

You should now see “ICO (Windows icon) (*.ICO)” in the “Format” menu when you try to save a file.