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Apple – Pro – Tips – Checking for Bad Fonts
Checking for Bad Fonts on Mac OSX
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Commentary
John Dvorak: The Great Microsoft Blunder
John Dvorak says: Microsoft’s entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision—and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe—the company ever made.
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Daring Fireball: Windows: The New Classic
John Gruber on the implications of Mac’s Boot Camp (if you’ve been living in a cave, Boot Camp lets you run Windows XP on an Intel based Mac). Windows: The New Classic
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Microsoft Delays Launch of Vista… Again
“Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista until after this year’s holiday shopping season, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.” Surprised? Me neither. Man, Microsoft sure does know how to launch a product… What made me laugh hardest about this whole article though was […]
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Clear Type
This isn’t exactly news but I thought I’d link this here for your benefit. How to activate cleartype on Windows XP It will make everything look prettier. I don’t know why default isn’t “on”. If you haven’t done this, do it now.
Reflection
3-D desktops?
I have been thinking about going Linux for a while now. Mostly because of my increasing loathing of Microsoft products. Microsoft products tend to be fairly poorly planned/constructed/maintained. Most often, instead of improving a product they abandon it in favor of a new piece of software or a new edition of it (Win 3.1->95/NT->98/NT4.0->ME->2000->XP-> I […]