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Hold on, this can be tricky if you use Google’s Jabber service (aka Google Talk) and don’t want to corrupt your Google Talk buddy list and complete address book in one single step.

Apparently, both lists are linked very closely in Google, so the first sync can be disappointing (and more than just that).

If you aren’t an address book freak, you are already on the safe side (not my case).

Via Håvard Sørbø.

Update: Mac OS X Hints has published a hint on this theme.

Sweet. You will need the 10.5.3 update.

Via Official Google Mac Blog

Update: Be careful; read on.

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Natalie Jost wrote a very interesting article about how to override inline styles from the CSS style sheet.

Why would you need something like this?

Well, let’s say you are working with some old CMS with poor render techniques that insist on create and style HTML “on the fly”, without template flexibility (Yes, I have found a lot of these being used with my clients)… Or a worst case: You have to publish documents that were exported to HTML from a crappy desktop word processor (Some companies have this kind of procedures to publish press statements, financial reports and other documents).

So, here’s the magic sentence:

/* override inline styles */
span[style^=""]{
    color: inherit !important;
    font-size: inherit !important;
}

But please, go to Natalie’s blog and read the explanation.

I really hope you don’t need this, but it is good to have these tools handy, just in case.

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Via sacred squid.