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Get the Inside Scoop on Your Font
Believe it or not, Font Book knows more than it’s letting on about your fonts. To find out the full inside info on a particular font, just press Command/I. This spills the beans about that font, including the name of the foundry that created it, when it was created, the font type (Postscript, TrueType, etc.), and [...]
Continue reading...Reinstall Your Browser’s Flash Player
29. August 2009
I use Safari daily, and have found recently that some Flash video was reallllly dragging. I decided to reinstall the Safari plug-in to see if that worked, and so far, so good. Here’s how: Download the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller for OS X (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/8/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg) Double-click to run the Uninstaller Reinstall Adobe Flash Player for OS X (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer) Hopefully, this [...]
Continue reading...Mailplane: The Marriage of Gmail and Apple Mail
27. August 2009
Over 100 million people are using Gmail. Having grown over 40% last year, it seems to be hot on the heels of Yahoo, AOL (really?) and Hotmail, and it’s no wonder, considering the unique “conversation-style” way to group email exchanges, labels instead of folders, 2GBs of free storage, the search capabilities and highly-tuned spam filters. But [...]
Continue reading...Type Like a European
17. August 2009
In Apple’s Pages and TextEdit applications, go to the “Edit” menu and choose “Special Characters.” In Microsoft Word for Mac, go to the “Insert” menu and choose “Symbol.” Up pops a cool Character Palette that includes most of the symbols you’re ever likely to need. Just place your cursor where you want the symbol, select your [...]
Continue reading...Collect OpenType Fonts in Smart Sets
20. July 2009
Font managers’ Smart Sets make it easy for you to find and activate only OpenType fonts. Smart Sets also let you search for many other attributes to organize your fonts, such as family, foundry, library, and keywords. If you use one of the three major font management utilities (FontAgent Pro, Suitcase Fusion 2, and FontExplorer X [...]
Continue reading...Top Ten Type Resources Online
5. July 2009
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of blogs, forums, and Web sites devoted to typography. Here are my top ten: Ilovetypography (http://ilovetypography.com) This rich typographic resource by “Johno” is designed to inspire its readers and to make people more aware of the typography all around us. Also check out its new little sister, welovetypography (http://welovetypography.com), for more type-related [...]
Continue reading...Get Your Signature at the Top of Your Replies
1. July 2009
Today a tech friend, who is very smart, asked me a question “How do you get the signature to insert at the top of a reply instead of the bottom?” I’m like “easy peasy, this is a no brainer.” I brushed the cobwebs off my Entourage 2008 and launched it. Opened up the preferences and then scratched [...]
Continue reading...Disable Single-Click URL Selection in Firefox 3
30. June 2009
When the user single-clicks in the address bar in Firefox 3, the default behavior is to select the entire contents of the address bar. The expected behavior for most other OS X browsers, including Firefox 2, is to insert the cursor at the click location. To restore Firefox 3 to sanity: Type about:config in the [...]
Continue reading...Setting High-Quality Fractions
24. June 2009
When was the last time you saw a cookbook specify .125 teaspoons of salt? No, in virtually all non-metric publications, this would be written 1/8 tsp. That’s not so bad on a web page, but in print, regular-sized numbers separated by a slash looks clunky and unprofessional. Instead, you should use true fractions, such as [...]
Continue reading...Easily Open a URL from Safari in Firefox
18. June 2009
I’ve seen other ways to go about this, but here’s a nice and clean way to switch from Safari to Firefox on a misbehaving page. First, make sure you have the Safari Debug menu enabled. On the Debug menu in Safari, the Open Page With menu item will list your installed browsers; assuming you have Firefox installed, [...]
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Details about the iPad
Apple’s new page detailing all the uber delicious iPad features can be found here. I want one now!
Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
1. September 2009
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