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This site is a fabulous resource for free fonts. There are 5 pages with samples of fonts. To download the font, you just click on the sample and a ZIP file will download. The site explains how they determine which fonts are “tops”:
Top 500 is calculated based on download counts from some of the web’s biggest free font archives.
My wife loves changing fonts when she is typing something up. I’d better not show her this site! 
From ComputerWeekly.com:
A survey of 1,500 UK office workers by market research firm Tickbox.net, on behalf of ergonomic monitor firm ViewSonic, shows a link between poor ergonomics knowledge and ailments such as headaches, eye fatigue and backache.
The study reveals that 46% of office workers spend six or more hours in front of their computer screens each day, and 51% of these are not scheduling appropriate breaks according to ergonomic guidelines.
Around three-quarters of respondents said they suffered from headaches (67%), eye fatigue (77%) and backache (71%).
From NewsFactor:
The Internet superhighway has broken another speed limit — twice in as many days. The Internet2 Consortium announced Tuesday that an international team led by the University of Tokyo transmitted data at speeds of 7.67 Gbps late last year, and then at 9.08 Gbps the very next day.
The first record-breaking transmission took place on December 30. The 20,000-mile roundtrip path, using standard TCP, began and ended in the NTT building in Tokyo. The second one took place the next day, on New Year’s Eve, over the same path but using modified TCP.
The path crossed six international networks, and covered 75 percent of the Earth’s circumference.
I found this a while ago through a link from Pirillo’s Picks. Undelete Plus is a free utility that tries to recover previously deleted files. I tried it out for the first time today on my 1 GB USB drive. It took about 5 minutes to scan the drive. It scanned what it said were 550,000 files and then an error came up saying that it was out of memory. I then applied a filter to the search and tried again with the same results. I then tried it on my C: drive (a local rather than removable drive), and had the same error.
I’m not sure why I couldn’t run the software, but after searching for more information on Undelete Plus, it appears that many people have used it successfully. Give it a try…
From USA Today:
Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published brand ranking.
It’s the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota.
In the ranking, which factored in financial performance and consumer sentiment, Google ranked first with a brand value of more than $66 billion, nearly double its value in the 2006 ranking, according to market researcher Millward Brown Optimor.
From CNN:
Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds.
“I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG.
Morgan defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan to become East Coast champion and then beat West Coast champion Eli Tirosh, 21, of Los Angeles, California.
She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.
Today’s tip is another tip for Adobe Lightroom users.
The third tip that I wrote dealt with organizing your images. Today’s tip is how Lightroom can help you with that.
Using the Library Module in Lightroom, tagging images with keywords could not be any easier. With your thumbnails visible, select an image or a series of images (hold down Shift when selecting all images between two selected images, or hold down control while selecting individual images that are not in order) and type keywords in the Keyword Tag box located in the right hand pane of the Library Module.
You can also add keywords buy selecting your images as above then clicking on any of the keywords listed in the Recent Keywords list. On top of the Recent Keywords, you can create you own list of up to nine keywords and save them as a custom set for future reference. Lightroom includes three of these keyword sets, Outdoor Photography, Portrait Photograph and Wedding Photography, but of course you can create your own for your specific photo needs. To change to any of these sets, or to one of your own, simply click the small down arrow just right of keyword set menu. This menu will then let you pick a keyword set, add or delete sets.
What good is tagging your images if you cannot use those tags to find your images later. Adobe has made this easy as well. To search for images using the keywords you have just created, expand the left hand pane if it is not already and then the Keyword Tags section of that pane.
You will see all of your keywords you have created along with a listing of the number of images tagged with each keyword. Selecting a keyword (or multiple keywords using Control and/or Shift) will then show in the image list all of the images belonging to your selected tags.
Properly labeling your images will make finding and sorting them easier for you, and the few seconds it takes to do this initially equates to a lot of saved time in the end.
Watch for my upcoming full review of Adobe Lightroom which is still on sale for a reduced rate of $197.99 US until the end of the month when the introductory price expires and the price increases to $299.99 US.
Until next time, happy shooting.
From Forbes:
Google owns the Internet advertising business, generates gobs of cash and can keep competitors at bay simply by opening its checkbook.
None of this seems to impress Wall Street. Analysts expect the Web giant to post another quarter of go-go growth on Thursday afternoon: They are looking for the company to reports earnings per share of $3.27, up 42% from a year ago, and revenues of $2.5 billion, up 63%. And yet investors now treat the company as if it is stalling: After a breathtaking run, the company’s share price has been bouncing between $450 and $500 all year.
So, what’s a poor Internet advertising behemoth supposed to do to impress investors?
From Red Herring:
Technology will keep getting better and better rather than plateauing out, with the humble keyboard making way for speech recognition software as standard, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday.
“I’m often asked, is the technology revolution going to reach an end? Is the improvement in the chips and the software, will that start to slow down as we reach some limits?†he told a forum in Beijing.
“The answer is―certainly in the decades ahead―we don’t see any limits. We see in fact the power will just get better and better.â€
I recently received this press release from Bolide Software about All My Movies:
Bolide Software today announced a new release of its well-known solution All My Movies. Designed for Windows OS, this product allows users to easily and efficiently create and manage private video collections. All My Movies turns your idea of sorting and cataloging various data upside-down making it an extremely captivating task. Compared with its competitors, All My Movies possesses an unexampled feature suite such as support of various plug-ins, export into HTML, XLS, CHM, support of templates and enhanced database. One of the remarkable features of All My Movies is the possibility to import information from Internet databases (for example, IMDB) and the scanned data (covers and bar-codes) which brings considerable time-saving. Above all, All My Movies allows to take stock of lent discs, keep various bases for preview on PDA and implement full text search. Intuitive, user-friendly interface of the program developed in accordance with user-demands is fully customizable and supports a variety of skins.
You can learn more about All My Movies on the Bolide Software site.
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