Just a quick post…
I’ve been creating some new print and online projects and I found an absolutely great site for fonts: http://www.dafont.com/
The site has a huge collection of donation-ware, free, and free for personal use fonts. Once you set a category of the type of fonts you would like to see, you have the option of typing in custom text so that the site will preview the text in the offered fonts. Very useful when you need to help a client research a font.
All in all – a great site!
-JT
If you’ve read this blog before, you know that I love the Quicksliver application. To date, the existing bundled plugins and readily available plugi
ns have met my needs. Although lately, I’ve notice that I really would have like to have a shortcut to set my Adium online status to Away. After a little bit of Goggle-ing I found a number of solutions. However, none seem too clean as you needed to use an outdated plugin (if you can find it) or write some script. I did find a useful blog entry that allowed me tackle this problem a little differently.
I hate technology. I really do. Why can’t things just work? Here is my latest bug: My iPhone will not allow me to anything other than read my iCal
server calendar. After the jump you can read about how I got some delegated calendars to work and what the current issues are with iCal Server.
JT: Just a quick note – this article is a bit long in the tooth and uses some possibly archaic processes. If you want up to date info – look to the OSx86 Project.
Okay – I took the plunge today to upgrade my box to 10.5.5 from 10.5.4. Using the directions that I’ve posted about before, I was able to successfully upgrade with only a couple of gotchas.
Way back when I heard about the new graphic format PNG, I thought WTH? Why would they go make another format as GIF was fine. When I started blogging, I did a little bit of additional research and found out there was a pretty good reason for the new format (‘new’ meaning that the file format has been around since 1996.) Here’s the wikipedia link on the subject.
In any event, I did find myself making screen shots that I wanted posted on the web. Not all of the screen shots were large – most being icons and the ilk – so I really didn’t need a jpeg file. So I did a little bit more research and I had implemented this little hack that allowed me to change the default file format of OSX’s screen capture. Of course, I didn’t bookmark the hack but fortunately the hack recently was posted on TUAW site and I thought I’d give it a mention here. (TUAW’s article)
-JT