Blocks is next. Blocks is going Universal tonight. Hopefully in 24-48 hours we'll have all four plugins Universal. Wouldn't that be nice?

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The release yesterday seemed to go without a hitch, so we're going to test again with Collage.

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If you follow the forums over at the RealMacSoftware site then you might have noticed that I've started to produce a few podcast style how-to videos. The first couple were on Columns and today I'm posting one on Blocks.

The first couple were OK, this one has suffered a bit, but I'm still going to post it. It seems that Snapz Pro, the uber cool screen capture software that makes screencasting possible, isn't yet working well with Intel processors. Since I picked up a new Intel based laptop last week... well... you get the idea.

The problem is that the cursor is all messed up. I'm guessing it's a byte-ordering problem on the cursor image. Apple's own X11 application has the same issue when connecting to remote Linux servers.

So it will be yellow noseeum cursors until Abrosia updates their software. I sure hope it's soon.

Apparently there are advantages to "eating your own dogfood." I found a bug in the CSS of Blocks while working on my own website. This is a small release, but because the bug can cause some rather serious issues it's recommended for everyone.

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I've added some more finesse to the CSS of Columns. Go download it now. It's a free update.

Here's some of the cool new stuff:

Adjustable Padding
The distance between the text of the column and the edge of its background color is now flexible. This should allow for much more creative use of white-space on your page.

Internet Explorer
In my quest to make all my plugins shrug off IE compatibility without any thought I've made the overflow hidden. There were probably a bunch of people using the overflow who just didn't know their pages aren't rendering in IE. We can't have that!

Closer Columns
With the addition of those features and some other small tweaks I've managed to get the gutter width down to just a few pixels. This has been one of my most requested features. You're welcome!

Border Bug Fixed
If you previously built a page with a small gutter and a big border, then you noticed this bug. The bug was that adding border width caused the overall width of each column to grow -- eventually causing the columns to crash into each other.