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// April 16th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, Software
Using the tips in the these articles on lifehacker, I’ll be spending the weekend going through various facets of my digital life clearing out what I don’t need. From Email, Contacts, Social Networks, Google Reader, and even my desk itself.
// September 8th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Internet, Software
FontCapture is a beta website where you can create your very own font in your handwriting. Its super easy to do. The site gives you a PDF Template which has a grid outlining each letter of the alphabet, numbers, and special characters. You simply print this template out and fill in each square in your own handwriting. Be sure to follow the instructions on the site on the best way to fill out the form. There are little tick marks showing the tops of capital letters and descender tick marks for those letters that go below the baseline like “g” and “p.” Make sure and sure and use a thin black marker or sharpie as suggested.
You then scan the template, upload it to the site, name your font, and install the resulting font onto your PC or Mac. Presto! your own personalized font. Below is a sample of the font I created from my own handwriting. 
Here is my finished template for reference and resulting font.
Have fun creating your own font and just think of this as another way to make a custom font that is not necessarily your handwriting. You could make the next windings or Helvetica. You could make your font out of boxes or animals. Share your creations in the comments if you like.
// August 22nd, 2008 // View Comments // Blog, Software
Well its that time in a Operating System’s life cycle. The dreaded format and reinstall of Windows. I have been fearing this for a couple of months. Just like vehicles, your Operating System gets sluggish after a while and needs a refresher.
I’ve had Windows XP installed for 4+ years and now windows starts very slowly and just recently started randomly giving me BSOD and rebooting.The fun part of backing up all my important documents, media, software,etc. onto an external drive and praying that I got everything is the next step. This is sort of good in a way because i get to sift through all of crap and delete what I really don’t need or haven’t used in a long time. It’s spring cleaning for the computer.
This makes me think about the push to Cloud Computing or Client Server computing and wonder if that is the way to go.
// July 14th, 2008 // View Comments // Blog, Internet, News, Software
Read this great articleby Mashable concerning the growning trend with software development companies to release very “buggy” software and passing it off as beta, when in fact they should be marked as Alpha. The author talks about Microsoft and Google with their Gmail service which should have the Beta tag removed.
Working for a software company, I see our software move through the development cycle and we would not release Alpha software for any kind of public consumption. Alpha releases are purely for our testers to test the software in-house. Only after much testing do we give software out to beta customers.
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