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This is the personal playground and weblog of Chris Rault (me), a designer, coder & entrepreneur. i am passionate about designing vibrant & colorful websites and coding them in a way that is semantic, well documented and adhere to industry standards.


Google Reader anyone?

Posted by: connectr in google on

For those of you who havent already seen it, checkout Google Reader, which is an online RSS feed app linked to your google account. Its great for keeping all ur news feeds in one


Hopes for a more Unified Google

Posted by: connectr in thoughtsgoogle on

Anyone that knows me, knows I am an avid Google Supporter and am always one of the first to know about any cool new services the company releases. My friends often joke and ask whether I am an undercover Google Salesman, to which the answer is always the same “No, but i wish i was”.

I am using


And the winner is...

Posted by: connectr in news on

Ok, well i know this has been a bit of a half baked attempt at a blog, but in all truth this was more an opportunity to play around with wordpress to get a feel for whether it was the right blogging engine for us. So…. after a bit of tinkering i have decided that wordpress is the way forward and we


On my usual rounds today, for cutting edge new sites and services and have stumbled across a couple of good ones. One however stands out of the rest, i spose the fact that its something i have been looking for kind of helps. Box.net is a awesome online storage site, that has a great “free” plan, as


Hmmm.. so the browser wars begin! Firefox, Flock or Songbird? Crap, which do i choose?

Well, after a much anticipated wait, songbird is now available for download! What is songbird you might ask.. Simply put - its a new integrated media browser, like flock, its developed on firefox. Only in this


Stokers stoked on Flock

Posted by: connectr in flockfirefoxbrowsers on

Well how is this for a find! I remember finding Flock a couple of months ago, before they had a beta release available - and since then havent give it much though. Safe to say i am totally stoked that i stumpled across it again today. Flock combines everything available in Firefox and MUCH MUCH