Slumdog's Boyle to direct 2012 Olympic cremony

Slumdog Millionaire Filmmaker Danny Boyle has been appointed as the artistic director of opening ceremony of London's 2012 Olympics.

Along with the Oscar winner Boyle, filmmaker Stephen Daldry have been confirmed as creative boss to oversee all ceremonies at the sporting event, Digital Spy online reported.

Boyle, who helmed eight Oscar-winning Mumbai potboiler, said, "It's a completely unique opportunity to contribute to what I'm sure are going to be a fantastic games. I'm really excited to be involved."

Daldry, director of acclaimed films like Billy Elliot and The Reader said of his appointment, "Myself and my co-executive producers will ensure there is creative continuity across all four ceremonies, that the public have real engagement and that we continue to attract into the key roles the best talent in the world. I'm delighted to be part of the team."

Live TV events director Hamish Hamilton, Mark Fisher and Catherine Ugwu have also joined the team that will stage London's opening and closing ceremonies.

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14 Keyboard Shortcuts for Posting with Blogger

Keyboard shortcuts are a feature I find incredibly useful. Most of our favourite applications offers shortcuts to perform tasks, such as the generic CTRL+S to save or CTRL+B to generate bold text in word processing programs (the "Command"/CMD button for Mac users).

Blogger offers us a range of keyboard shortcuts we can use when creating and editing our blog posts to perform some most-used tasks without having to scroll around to find their appropriate buttons.


The following shortcuts have been tested to work in Internet Explorer 6+, although at present not all of these work in Firefox, Chrome and Opera*:

Shortcut Function
CTRL+B --- Bold Text
CTRL+I --- Italic text
CTRL+U --- Underline text
CTRL+L --- Blockquote (when in Edit HTML mode only)
CTRL+Z --- Undo last operation
CTRL+Y --- Redo last operation
CTRL+SHIFT+A --- Insert Hyperlink
CTRL+SHIFT+P --- Preview Post
CTRL+D --- Save as Draft
CTRL+P --- Publish Post
CTRL+S --- Autosave
CTRL+G --- Indic Transliteration

* Mac users substitute CTRL for CMD

I've tested the shortcuts above in Firefox 3.63, Internet Explorer 7/8 and Chrome, though have yet been unable to test in Opera (so if anyone is able to do this, please let us know your findings in the comments!).

The Blogger Team are aware that some keyboard shortcuts do not work across all browsers and are working through the issues.

Do you find these keyboard shortcuts useful when posting with Blogger? Please feel free to comment using the form below.

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Pic of the Day - 17th June

May 18, 2010 photo released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment shows the Meridian Boundary Fire near South Branch Township, Mich., in Crawford County. Crews continue to fight two forest fires in dry, windy northern Michigan, both of which have forced people to leave their homes. (Photo: AP Photo/Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment)

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