Google alerts is a simple service that allows you to receive alerts on any Google search you want, whenever it is updated.

So when a new result is returned for your search, you’ll know about it without having to lift a finger.

Until just recently the alert was only available in the form of an email, fortunately however, Google have now syndicated the alerts into an rss feed.

The problem with the emails was that should you want to monitor a popular search term, with regular changes to the Google search listings, you’d be buried under an avalanche of emails.

The utilisation of RSS feeds is certainly a welcome change to Google alerts. Now we can all get back to monitoring Google for our favourite Search Engine Optimisation terms.

We all went on a company outing to see the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Most of us loved the film, but some of us particularly liked the typography. I personally loved the intro sequence which was put together by MK12. A legend of a motion graphics company.

The Quantum of Solace logo is made from a typeface called Neutraface by House industries. This typeface is just fantastic and there are so many font weight variations which all look dead sexy.

The beautiful location intro typefaces were handcrafted by Tomato. It was nice to see this attention to detail rather than the typical way of dealing with location typography.

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OK, this may sound a bit funny and it may be considered over-attention to detail, but it can really spoil a design and potentially hamper reading when a headline doesn’t quite fit on a single line and leaves you with one word hanging underneath. That’s what we mean by a 'widow'.

This is particularly relevant to newspaper sites or blogs where the headline may form a central feature to the look of a whole page. It’s not just headlines though, even in body copy widows are generally considered poor style and should be avoided. But how to control them in a content-managed site? Luckily for those of us that worry about such things there’s Widon’t.

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