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No More Newsweek, At Least In Print 18 Oct 2012 | 07:37 pm
Newsweek announced today that as of the end of the year, they will no longer publish a print edition. Management says they plan to transition to an all-digital format in early 2013 called Newsweek Glo...
A Fond Goodbye To Donna Summer 18 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
A lot of people looked down their noses at the Queen of Disco because, well, because she sang disco. But they secretly dug Donna anyway. You could tell. Great tunes. Great beat. And a great voice for...
In Web Design, The Narrow Column Is King 11 Mar 2012 | 07:00 am
Get used to it. Learn to live with it. Make it work for you. Check this out: Re-Thinking The Mobile Web It takes a good twenty minutes to get through but it’s worth it. Even if you are already famil...
A Free RasterBRIDGE® Web Font: Puffbuddy Light 1 Mar 2012 | 10:03 am
What you see above is a screen shot taken on Windows XP. It looks smooth and clean, right? Unlike most so-called ‘web fonts’, all RasterBRIDGE® Web Fonts are specially prepared to look as good in Wind...
The Inclusionists 18 Feb 2012 | 06:10 pm
There is a bit of a kerfuffle going on in the world of web standards regarding the use of vendor specific prefixes for CSS properties. There’s an article on AListApart about it that every web develope...
When The World Shifts Beneath Your Feet 7 Dec 2011 | 12:19 pm
Garrick Van Buren, my taskmaster at Kernest/Konstellations, sent me over a link to an article about how different publishers are dealing with DRM and, just as importantly, the Walmart of online publis...
Practical Font Design, Third Edition 2 Dec 2011 | 07:29 am
Practical Font Design 3rd Edition In Digital Publishing you need to co-ordinate your efforts with many people. Web designers, developers, server techs – the list goes on and on – and the more you kno...
Extensis Brings Google Web Fonts Straight Into Photoshop 8 Nov 2011 | 01:42 pm
Extensis, the company behind the WebINK web font service, today announced a plug-in that brings Google Web Fonts straight into Photoshop. Free And Open-Source Fonts Served Alongside The Proprietary, ...
Amazon Moves To HTML5/CSS3 For New Kindle, Leaves Mobi Format Behind 22 Oct 2011 | 03:50 am
Some folks I know are waiting for E-Pub to magically arrive and provide a comfy transition from print to screen. But anybody who’s looked into that closely knows it’s a fairy tale. Ain’t gonna happen...
Steve Jobs Role In Typography By Computer 18 Oct 2011 | 04:21 am
A few weeks ago, my eye doctor said to me, “I only know of two people who know anything about fonts, you and Steve Jobs.” Seemed Dr. Patel was re-doing his web site and had questions about the qualiti...
