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Archive for November, 2007
Verdana, Trebuchet for linux
Nov 22nd
I’m more seriously investigating the feasability of moving my main desktop environment to Linux. I’ve just found a package of fonts vital for the web that has brought me one step closer.
It contains Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Trebuchet, Comic Sans, Impact and others
http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/
Reference: http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html
New CSS reference
Nov 22nd
Hi, This is just a heads up. Sitepoint are launching a new CSS reference that sounds very promising. They’ve hinted in the latest newsletter that you’ll need a Sitepoint forums account for access to it.. and I’m guessing they might be charging people who don’t have one created before Dec 1st for access.
Their technical writing has been excellent to date, so I think it’d be worth your while signing up for an account.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> “So, when’s this fancy reference launching, anyway?” you ask. That I can’t tell you just yet. But I can tell you that you’d better make sure you have More >
Some shiny free software for you
Nov 16th
This is a small selection of the open source desktop software I use. As with most open source stuff, I believe they are all cross software to some degree and they are all really useful. Apps I’d struggle to live without now I use them regularly!
Firefox The bestest web browser ever for starters and then the plugins launch it to another level. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Inkscape Vector graphic editor http://www.inkscape.org/
GIMP Image editing software http://www.gimp.org/
Pidgin Instant messenging software that is actually nice to use http://www.pidgin.im/ -windows http://www.adiumx.com/ – mac
Vector Magic An raster(bitmap) to vector converter that actually works! (online tool) http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
Audacity Multi-track audio editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
KeePass Secure password store and manager – More >
