It’s time to limber up your digits for some advanced three finger keyboarding. Forget that archaic ctrl-alt-del move your cube-neighbor has been practicing on his Pentium. You need fancier manoeuvres. You need to push modifier key combinations to the limit. You don’t need to simply reboot your box, you need to modify the entire startup … More
What Font Is This? outlines tips, techniques, and resources for identifying typefaces. I’ve spent a fair portion of the last dozen years performing font identification for customers and designer friends alike. It can be very satisfying to nail a design on the head without even peeking at a specimen book. Modern display type is generally … More
Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland, the masterful boys behind the Dutch font funhaus over at LettError have just released a new engraved typeface called Federal. It’s a striking, extended serif design that appears to be loosely based on the typography from American dollar bills. Note that they plead its uniqueness. The base font … More
So, you think that your favourite computing platform is going to protect you like a Bondi blue condom from the amorous advances of some coworker? Here’s a little reminder that everybody can be infected by a digital STD.
Amidst all of the virii chasing and Microsoft-focused “I told you so’s” that echoed down the halls of our office last week, our information services department also took delivery of ten (count’em ten) top-end Power Mac G4 boxes. The easy part of getting these delicious, graphite-bejeweled lovelies in-house was justifying their purchase instead of the … More
Bummer. Array, one of my favorite design related blogs to grok, has apparently ceased to be. The circulating word is that the proprietor shut it down due to an issue with the Pike and Manila Express graphics that had been “modified” on the WinerLog site. As much as I like to see Dave get his … More
Last week I asked about the potential ethics and guidelines behind going back into your weblog to edit or tweak previous postings. I didn’t really have a huge issue with the point, I just felt guilty doing it sometimes. Here are a couple of views on the matter: Subject: ethics or guidelines for weblogs? Date: … More
If I could arrange that every piece of obsolete computer equipment could be spruced up and given to a good home, I’d be one happy guy. There’s nothing I hate to see more than someone tossing out a perfectly good piece of hardware. My home and office are both growing, physical testaments to this fact. … More
We’re having a garage sale today. I managed to get rid of four dead pc keyboards that had been rolling around in the trunk of my car for the past several months. Some guy paid just over a buck (Canadian) for all of them.
Turly O’Connor has updated FinderPop, which gets my vote for the single most useful Mac OS enhancement utility of all time (nearly). It one of those things that I use every day. If I’m sitting at someone elses machine, and FinderPop isn’t installed, I get completely confused by its absence.